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O Pequeno Grande Livro Da Tristeza Feliz (1971)

by Colin Thompson(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Brinque Book

review 1: George is a lonely boy who lives with his grandma. To pass time, he likes to visit the local kennel where he finds himself drawn to the three legged dog in the corner cage. Although, he is not vibrant and healthy like the other dogs, George still wants to adopt him. On his final visit, he finds out that if he does not act fast, his furry friend will be put to sleep. He ends up saving his life and in return the dog saves him. A beautiful story of hope for any animal lover.
review 2: Great. Googly. Moogly. You know, I like sad books. I don't why, but I love sad books with happy endings. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane made me cry for days, and it's one of my all-time favorite books. If You Find me is, I've heard, extremely sad, but I'm enjoying it thus fa... morer. The Book Thief and A Canticle for Leibowitz both end with major areas (Munich in the former and the world in the latter) being bombed to ashes, and they both have permanent spots on my all-time-favorites shelf. So why did I not love this book? Hoo boy, how much time do you have? For the sake of brevity, I'm going to keep my beefs with this book down to four. 1) The main character. What is WRONG with that kid? Okay, okay, I know he lives with his grandma because he lost his parents. I know the other kids think he's weird and so they ostracize him. I know he must be broken inside, and I'm not trying to shame him for that. But I don't know a lot of kids who have lost that much who always go to the back of the animal shelter to gaze at the dogs who are about to be put down. Maybe I've just met the wrong kids, but all of the kids I've known who love animals don't want to be reminded of an animal's impending mortality. 2) The shelter lady. Serious Did Not Do the Research here. When the kid tells her that he wants to adopt a dog with three legs who is ONE day from being put down, she tries to talk him out of it. "We have eighty-seven other dogs," she tells him. "Don't you want one who is more beautiful than that dog?" jdfkdsjgkfdhifhdkughdklghuieshieshufdnklghdusjfhiudgsufhbdsjkvhbjkdxhfjeiutyhklhdjfhhjkxdfjlkdhjfg*deep breath* Has this author even BEEN to a shelter before? The workers don't try to get the pretty dogs adopted. It's the "ugly" ones, the ones with missing eyes or torn ears that they try to foist on people. Had this lady been an ACTUAL shelter worker, she would have burst into tears of joy when that kid told her he wanted the three-legged dog about to be put down. 3) The author describes the dog, then says, "He was someone [the kid] could really identify with." Excuse me? You just SHOWED us that! We're not morons. Let us make the connection ourselves. Writing like this is all over the book. 4) This book is for CHILDREN. Colin Thompson wrote this book with children in mind, and some publisher picked up the manuscript and said, "Oh, this looks like a great book for developing minds!" 'Nuff said. I hate this book. I hate it so much. I hope no child ever has their parents read it to them, because it would almost certainly be a traumatic experience. Sure, it has a happy ending, but that means moot when a book is this sadistic. I'm going to re-read The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane to get this rubbish out of my head. less

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