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ketutar's review against another edition
5.0
Oh, I should have trusted Eva!
It starts absolutely abominably. A little boy wants nothing but a dog, but his parents will give him anything but a dog. They are being really beastly about it. They give him a dog for his birthday, but then they take it back, because it was just hired for a weekend. The boy and the dog are miserable, until they meet again, and realize that in spite of everything they have been told, they love each other. So, the boy runs away from home and steals back his dog, and goes to his grandparents who understand little boys and dogs. It has a really happy ending, and it made me cry :-)
The parents are as bad as one would think. They learn and get better.
It starts absolutely abominably. A little boy wants nothing but a dog, but his parents will give him anything but a dog. They are being really beastly about it. They give him a dog for his birthday, but then they take it back, because it was just hired for a weekend. The boy and the dog are miserable, until they meet again, and realize that in spite of everything they have been told, they love each other. So, the boy runs away from home and steals back his dog, and goes to his grandparents who understand little boys and dogs. It has a really happy ending, and it made me cry :-)
The parents are as bad as one would think. They learn and get better.
crystal_e_fall's review against another edition
4.5
Något som kan bli bättre?
- Den var bra, men jag skulle nog inte läsa den en gång till, det hände inte så mycket. 4.5/5 Stjärnor.
- Den var bra, men jag skulle nog inte läsa den en gång till, det hände inte så mycket. 4.5/5 Stjärnor.
mufasa_nafisa's review against another edition
5.0
This book is for younger ages for for k- 4th grade but regardless I enjoyed because of how much the boy showed compassion for his dog and how the dog changed the boys life forever.
cbcoley83's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
lonelvheart's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
readerpants's review against another edition
3.0
Cute, old-fashioned, predictable. Could be a nice family read-aloud.
This would have been four stars, or at least three and a half, except that I was really bothered by the weird Li-Chee-Nini storytime. Nini is Indonesian by birth, adopted by English foster parents who are twits in the grand Dahl-Ibbotson tradition, then abandoned in a foster home. She's traumatized and won't speak until she meets the dog Li-Chee, who magically heals her emotional wounds. Oh, because "golden-skinned" Indonesian people like Nini worship dogs like Li-Chee in their temples. (p.177: "And as she brushed and combed and tidied him, she was back in her homeland, helping the girls who danced in the temple to prepare the little guard dogs that they worshipped for the festivals." What? Then the dog communes with her and communicates that he "did not want to be worshipped. He wanted to be understood.") Very weird. I mean, that kind of casual ignorance/racism is something I would have expected to see in a book for kids published 60 years ago, but not in 2012. Couldn't the editor have caught that? It would have been easy enough to fix without violating the integrity of the storylines.
This would have been four stars, or at least three and a half, except that I was really bothered by the weird Li-Chee-Nini storytime. Nini is Indonesian by birth, adopted by English foster parents who are twits in the grand Dahl-Ibbotson tradition, then abandoned in a foster home. She's traumatized and won't speak until she meets the dog Li-Chee, who magically heals her emotional wounds. Oh, because "golden-skinned" Indonesian people like Nini worship dogs like Li-Chee in their temples. (p.177: "And as she brushed and combed and tidied him, she was back in her homeland, helping the girls who danced in the temple to prepare the little guard dogs that they worshipped for the festivals." What? Then the dog communes with her and communicates that he "did not want to be worshipped. He wanted to be understood.") Very weird. I mean, that kind of casual ignorance/racism is something I would have expected to see in a book for kids published 60 years ago, but not in 2012. Couldn't the editor have caught that? It would have been easy enough to fix without violating the integrity of the storylines.
lindageorge's review against another edition
5.0
I enjoyed this book very much. I don't want to give too much away but I felt satisfied with how this was crafted!
booksforlosers's review against another edition
1.0
If here was a such thing as a knock off book, this is it. It seems like the author tried to copy classics and at the same time make it modern but the mixing didn't really work at all...