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Your Mommy Was Just Like You (2011)

by Kelly Bennett(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

039924798X (ISBN13: 9780399247989)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Putnam Juvenile

review 1: K picked this book up from our public library.I really liked how the author did a great job with showing kids that their parents which in this case is a mother use to act just like them. The pictures went great with what the author was telling us. The only problem I had was that I didn't know that it was told from a grandparent's point of view. Well the grandmother. It kind of confused K a bit. Though this book is a good way to bring together the memories of a grandmother to her daughter and from her to her daughter.
review 2: The illustrations are sweet, and I appreciated that sometimes the mommy was good and sometimes she wasn't (brought to mind the old Eloise Wilkin "Good Little Bad Little Girl" which I adored to pieces as a child) and also appreciated that ... moresometimes the girl dressed as a princess and sometimes as a robot. But I guess I wanted more clues that the images of the mommy as a little girl were set the past, though since they are more contemporary/generic, way they can be relevant to more generations. Also, the details seemed both too specific and not specific enough; this is kind of an impossible story to tell for everybody, isn't it? I hope that this prompts a lot of storytelling in families as they read it together. less

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