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S'està carregant… Pony on the Twelfth Floorde Polly Faber
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Ressenya escrita per a CrÃtics Matiners de LibraryThing . I wanted to enjoy this book. My children and I enjoyed Faber’s Mango and Bambang series about a girl and a tapir. However, I did not think this book was as well-written and there were parts of it that bothered me as a parent which made me not want to share the book with my 8- and 10-year-old.The story is about a girl named Kizzy who has wanted a horse for eleven years but she lives in the city on the 12th floor of an apartment building. Randomly, one day she finds a pony in the supermarket happily gobbling up all of the donuts and Kizzy decides she will keep it. Unfortunately, this leads Kizzy to hide things, lie, and break rules so much that she gets suspended and almost gets her family evicted. As a reader and as a parent, I took offense to Kizzy’s behavior and overall didn’t enjoy the story. Ressenya escrita per a CrÃtics Matiners de LibraryThing . This was a super silly book about a girl in a city who finds a pony and then proceeds to hide the horse in her apartment bedroom. My kids, who love horses, were really excited for me to read it aloud to them. They quickly became uncomfortable by all the rule breaking and lying and how she lets him eat donuts- they were very concerned for the safety of the pony. But they also loved the silly and disgusting parts, like what the MC does with the inevitable output of livestock living in an enclosed space. Altogether though, the uncomfortable parts ended up stopping me from finished reading this aloud to my children and they didn't complain. Ressenya escrita per a CrÃtics Matiners de LibraryThing . Kizzy, a complete crazy-about-ponies girl, finds one lost at the supermarket and has to find out how to keep him unnoticed in her family's 12th floor apartment.The story is cute and fun, and the illustrations very nice, but there are a couple of things that I didn't like. First, I found the story too long, but that is not that transcendent. Second, and more important, although we all love Donut and were cheering for Kizzy to be able to keep him it is a fact that she did a lot of lying, hiding, rule breaking (at school and at home), and there were never consequences. Not even a serious talk. Third, and this one made me very uneasy and uncomfortable, at some point Mr Newman, Kizzy's building caretaker, invites her to a remote, locked, "personnel only" place in the building to show her his beehives. He tells her she can't tell anyone about it, and she promises to keep the secret. This is a huge NO! Mr Newman is a nice person and he actually only wants to show her his beehives in the building roof, but I think it's a serious mistake to show an adult asking a kid to go to a remote place with him/her and keep it as a secret as something that is right or acceptable. We parents, teachers and grownups in charge are doing exactly the opposite teaching that this can't happen, ever. I absolutely loved the premise of this story, but this last fact impacted my rating. I wish it could be edited and changed. I received this copy in an Early Reviewers Giveaway in LibraryThing. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Juvenile Fiction.
Juvenile Literature.
HTML: Kizzy would give anything for a pony, but she never expected to find one at the supermarket! How do you keep a pony in your apartment without anyone finding out? Kizzy has always wanted a pony of her own. So when she finds a pony snacking on donuts in the grocery store, she instantly knows that she must have him â?? and what to name him. But there's just one small problem: it's not easy to hide a pony in an apartment complex! Enlisting the help of her best friend, Pawel, Kizzy manages to keep Donut fed, ride him around the park, and even hide him in her school's garden. But Kizzy is finding it harder and harder to keep Donut a secret. Will she be able to give him up if it means finding him a better home? A heartwarming story about following your dreams â?? no matter how far-fetched they seem No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Small font and the descriptive language makes this book an excellent read for those readers that need to be challenged or higher grade horse lovers. The author of the Mango & Bambang books created another book full of humor and imaginative scenarios. The black and white illustrations sprinkled throughout the story, depicting a girl of color, makes this adventure lively and dynamic. It shows that dreams can come true no matter how far-fetched.
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3rd - 5th grade
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