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The Problem With Puddles (2009)

by Kate Feiffer(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0739381296 (ISBN13: 9780739381298)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Listening Library

review 1: An okay, mildly humorous, little harder than a beginning chapter book, mostly because it is longer than a beginning chapter book, but with lots of repetition, for the humor of it - ? the Puddles went back and forth and back and forth and back and forth" ha, ha. So the Puddles leave their country home for their city home and in all that back and forthing, they leave their two dogs behind. The chapters alternate between the dogs, who adventure off on their own to find the city and the Puddles, who crash their car trying to turn around and go back. They all meet some other people along the way and solve some bizarre problems of longstanding.
review 2: Rose (my first grader) and I listened to this in the car on a long trip today. While it is a fun book to listen ... moreto and was fairly interesting, I really did not like the way adoption was presented in the story. I am not generally an over-sensitive person about this issue, and maybe it was just the narrative style, but I felt like the decision made by birth parents to relinquish a child seemed callous and uncaring, and while the adoptive parents were presented as loving their child, they felt like adoption was a secret to be kept. Generally it was a silly portrayal of adoption in a book that was exceedingly silly, but it still rubbed me the wrong way.Rose, for the record, didn't register any objections. less

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