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Always Listen To Your Mother (2010)

by Florence Parry Heide(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1423113950 (ISBN13: 9781423113959)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Disney-Hyperion

review 1: Heide, F. (2010). Always listen to your mother. New York: Hyperion Books. It was a story about a boy named Earnest that always listened to his mother. He helped her cook and clean and he always asked permission to do things. Finally a new family moved in next door and he asked his mother if he could go meet them. They went over there and the mother had a cleaning list too, but it just said the room names. Earnest and his new friend played all day and had lots of fun. When Earnest came home he told his mother how the new little boy listens to his mother and his mother said he sounds like a great friend and should play with him everyday. I liked this short little story. I rate it 5/5.
review 2: Ernest is a good little boy always listening to his mother. He ea... morets his brocolli, goes to bed on time, and never whines, dwadles or talks back. He helps his mother with the housework. His life is quite ordinary and dull. Until a new family moves in, a vampirish, ghoulish type of family. Vlapid the new little boy also does everything his mother says, but is entirely opposite of what Ernest knows. They swing on chandeliers and write on walls. Ernest's mom says he can play with Vlapid everyday, not knowing the type of play they really do. The story has a great setup of the two characters and the conflict that could arise when Ernest's mom finds out what the new family's rules of the house are. However Ernest's mom never does, hence the second half of the book was a let down. Kind of felt like only half a book.The illustrations are wonderful and does a good job of changing the color palette between Ernest and Vlapid's home. I liked the artist's rendering of Ernest as a boy from the 50's with starched white shirt, black trousers, suspenders, and a bow tie. He kind of looked like the hired help, hence evoking my sympathy. I think the real lesson of this book is to remind parents to let kids be kids. less

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