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Monday Is One Day (2011)

by Arthur Levine(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0439789249 (ISBN13: 9780439789240)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Scholastic Press

review 1: My five-year-old son picked this book out from the library last week. I really liked the idea of this book and how all-encompassing the word "family" can be, but this book fell a little flat for me. I don't think the problem is with the text, which was deliberately simple. I think the illustrations, while not bad, were flat and not especially interesting. A stronger illustrator could have turned this book into a winner. Actual rating: 3.5 stars, but I round up.
review 2: Reading this book to my four year old the night before back to school PD made me really sad. It is basically about making it through the weak.The thing I find most interesting in this book is the families. Each day of the week has a picture of a family doing something with their children... more. Monday has a single dad saying goodbye to his boy. Tuesday a single mom with her daughter. The illustrator also includes families from different ethnicity. One family appears to be grandparents raising a boy. Things get interesting on Friday where it appears to be two men raising a young boy. I felt like the book is trying to make different family situations okay and I applaud the book for that effort. less

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