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Review Date: 9/1/2007
An excellent book for teaching children about stranger danger. It helps children understand dangers of being too friendly and trusting of strangers, but also that not all strangers are bad. "Most folks are friendly and nice and wouldn't hurt a fly. But you have to be careful, just in case." It also explains that a person cannot be judged on appearance with the illustration that apples that may look bad on the outside be good on the inside and vice versa.
Review Date: 9/6/2007
Helpful Score: 6
This is one of those books that surprisingly left me almost speechless. It is so much more than the synopsis leads one to believe. I am so blessed that this was required reading for a grad class for young adult literature or I never would have read it. Mr. Zusak's writing style is poetic in places: "Screams jump over the fence." "A murmuring crawls to the window . . ." It does have some obscene language, but somehow it seems necessary to the setting and voice. A couple of places left me feeling like I missed something, but the incredible message feels life-changing. It is very though-provoking and hard to put down. I highly recommend this book for ages 17 and up, and I will be recommending it to my book club because it could generate much good discussion.
Review Date: 10/20/2009
Helpful Score: 2
What a wonderful book! It shows kids so many wonderful things about books and writing from simply the connection between them to different genres and the pleasure of writing and sharing your writing with others.
Review Date: 8/18/2007
A good read, but inaccurate in that it says Jesus had brothers and sisters.
Review Date: 8/18/2007
An excellent children's book - so good that we ended up with 2 copies.
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