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Title: The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack, Kurt Wiese ISBN: 0-14-050241-6 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: August, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book on the futility of thought
Comment: The Story About Ping is a beautiful allegory for the futility of free thought. While conforming may be painful [as shown by Ping's daily swat for being last and least of the conforming], it triumphs over the frightening world of the unknown. Leaving us with the message that overcoming adversity through intellectual superiority is impossible and in vain. A perfect story for the proletariat children of the future, or for a President supporting the PATRIOT Act, though the latter may have problems tackling its big words.
Rating: 3
Summary: Grosset & Dunlap edition is very cheaply made
Comment: Others have written regarding content; I am simply alerting people that this edition (ISBN 0448421658) was more cheaply made than I expected; the cover is simply folded over (no glue). I doubt it will hold up to much use.
Rating: 2
Summary: duck!
Comment: This book is cleverly written, but I wouldn't read it to my children. Basically the premise is that this duck gets hit every day because he's the last on the boat. He gets tired of this and strikes out on his own but nearly gets eaten. Eventually he makes it back home where he gets hit again and he thinks that it's better to be safe back home, getting hit, than out there getting eaten.
So, what this book is telling children is that it's better to be abused at home than to chance making your life better by, say, reporting your situation to the authorities. Because, what if they hurt you worse? Just go home and live with the abuse like a good little kid.
And, that's a terrible message for a kid.
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Title: The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson ISBN: 0670674249 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1936 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton ISBN: 0395169615 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 September, 1939 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel, Blair Lent ISBN: 0805006621 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Blueberries for Sal (Picture Puffins) by Robert McCloskey ISBN: 014050169X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: September, 1976 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Five Chinese Brothers (Paperstar) by Claire Huchet Bishop, Kurt Wiese ISBN: 0698113578 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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