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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
Once Upon a Time...there was a beautiful glass kingdom that kicked out it's Fairy, Bloom, "whose footsteps were heavy and left a trail of tiny cracks ad mud wherever she went." When the glass castle begins to fall apart the King and Queen go off to look for Bloom but do not find the magic they are looking for in her offered bucket of mud. They than send Ordinary Genevieve, whose only job is to keep the queens crystal spoon clean, to find the magic to fix the kingdom. Bloom shows Genevieve the magic in the bucket of mud and the extraordinary in herself.
Doreen Cronin's story of a young girl who finds magic in a most unusual place is wonderful. Cronin reminds us that "there is no such thing as an ordinary girl" and that magic can be found, if you are willing to get your hands dirty.
David Small's beautiful water colors bring to life a glass kingdom in disarray, a mud love fairy and the magic of creating something extraordinary!
Doreen Cronin's story of a young girl who finds magic in a most unusual place is wonderful. Cronin reminds us that "there is no such thing as an ordinary girl" and that magic can be found, if you are willing to get your hands dirty.
David Small's beautiful water colors bring to life a glass kingdom in disarray, a mud love fairy and the magic of creating something extraordinary!
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Long, but so much fun. We were totally "in" from beginning to end. What an intriguing and empowering story.
--Girl power
--Girl power
Bloom is a fairy who works with mud. She doesn't fit in very well with the rest of the kingdom., so she goes away. Eventually the kingdom starts to fall down. Now the king wants Bloom to come back. First he goes to ask her to return and save them, but he is offended by her mud, then the queen goes, and then they send someone ordinary.
At first I wasn't sure if this book was about the perils of being the all-knowing supreme beings that are humans and how we affect the world. It is sort of that, but also more. This is the story about how girls can do anything. They can use their hands. Get dirty. Ask for help. Take charge. Grow into strong, beautiful beings. Save the world. This is a modern day fairy tale for all girls, to let them know that they can be seen and heard and do good things. Also, it is a fairy tale about going back to the earth and working with the earth and caring for the earth and her creatures so we can rebuild society for the better. The illustrations are lovely. The text is also expressive of the content, with the type changing with various words or characters speaking. (if you know the literary term for this, please tell me! I can't remember!) Genevieve's words start out small, but as her confidence grows her words grow too. I loved this book and want to add one to Addie's library.
A story about being ordinary and learning that sometimes you have to get your hands dirty to get things done.
Too much text to be a picture book and too short to be an effective chapter book, Bloom is an awkward mix of the two. While the point the author was trying to get across (that even ordinary people can wield change if they believe in themselves) is honorable, it was overshadowed by a back to back comparison: "There are no ordinary girls." vs. "An ordinary girl saved the kingdom". You JUST said there are no ordinary girls! A cute fairy-tale-ish story nonetheless.
There's no such thing as an ordinary girl. I really liked this book, and highly recommend for little girls. I think it's a great, you can do anything sort of a book in a real practical kind of way.
A fairy teaches a young servant girl to build bricks from mud and straw when the kingdom of glass where she lives begins to shatter and crumble. A gentle message about nature, the joy in getting dirty, and building with your own hands is threaded throughout.