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Too Tall Houses (2012)

by Gianna Marino(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670013145 (ISBN13: 9780670013142)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Viking Juvenile

review 1: I enjoyed the telling and the essence of the story, but despite the fact that it was a fable, somehow it bothered me that the rabbit's house was not underground and the owl's was not in a tree. I am not sure why, but because of that it didn't ring true. I can usually cast all kinds of assumptions aside when reading folktales or modern children's stories like the Berenstain Bears where the Bear family lives in a treehouse but otherwise does all the things human families do. But somehow in this picture book which emphasized the rivalry and selfishness of the two characters, I could not set aside the fact that neither animal would build either of those houses anyway...fwiw.
review 2: Nice big book, with pictures large enough to see by the whole class in a shared r... moreeading. Plus, the animal partnership of an owl and rabbit is always nice, for me at least (not a bunny for obvious reasons, heh heh). Nothing especially scary, surprising, or unusual about the story, but it's very useful for the preK, K-2nd graders as they get caught up in competition a lot. The lesson learned is very clear: that it is better to be friends and not compete. I also liked the secondary message of taking (using, building) only what you need.It reads and looks like an old folk tale where there is a moral at the end. The illustrations are fun when the two houses get taller and start coming apart. Of course the kids like this part! less

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