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barbarianlibarian's review against another edition
2.0
cute/weird. screams 80's to me, but is 2005. not sure what I think of all her little animal friends
snowelf's review against another edition
2.0
I really, really did not care for the writing in this book. But some of the illustration spreads were pretty good, so I'm bumping our rating up one star. Also, I'm in principle in favor of the message not to judge based on appearances, and following your heart, but the insistence on "ugly" was a bit of an overkill for us. In fact, I didn't think the story was conveying only good messages, on the contrary. And, unless the book is intended for emerging readers, the writing is overly infantile and dumbed down.
Everything about Halloween is fascinating of course for our kids, so there will be kids who will be wild about this story. It was a bit unclear to me who the family in the story was expecting to show up trick-or-treating on their doorstep, to their house in the middle of "a BIG woods" (!), but here I'm being nit-picky. And, finally, I always feel a bit weird about real bears befriending little children - hello? - but again, that's just me. So, I haven't come across a book that grated me this much in a while, but I'm sure there will be lots of takes for it anyhow ...
Everything about Halloween is fascinating of course for our kids, so there will be kids who will be wild about this story. It was a bit unclear to me who the family in the story was expecting to show up trick-or-treating on their doorstep, to their house in the middle of "a BIG woods" (!), but here I'm being nit-picky. And, finally, I always feel a bit weird about real bears befriending little children - hello? - but again, that's just me. So, I haven't come across a book that grated me this much in a while, but I'm sure there will be lots of takes for it anyhow ...
lisaarnsdorf's review against another edition
3.0
About individuality and finding what’s special in all things, even if they’re different. Good message. Felt oddly 1980s.
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