calistareads's review against another edition
4.0
I don’t know if I knew this fable. It’s possible I did and forgot. This is a beautiful story about the beautiful song of a Nightingale and the healing power of nature. My favorite part was when death is sitting on the emperor’s chest and all these heads are around him. There are beautiful heads and ugly heads and they are our good and bad deeds we did in life and they are all saying, “do you remember me.” Wow, that was pretty powerful to me.
This Nightingale ends up saving the Emperor, at least for a time, with his song. Nature is really our best healing source. It’s the true elixir. This is a great secret revealed here. A teacher told a story of meeting a monk in Tibet and she asked if he needed acupuncture needles and the monk replied when he needs healing he will sit with a tree and the tree will heal him. When we flow with the natural rhythms, there really is healing power in nature. Humanities problem is we live outside those bounds of nature for 3,000 years and it’s only getting worse. Today, many of us have lost our connection completely to nature. Anyway.
The nephew thought this was long. He did like the robot bird in the story, completely missing the point of it. He thought the story was ok. He gave this 3 stars.
Jerry Pinkney did the illustrations in this edition.
This Nightingale ends up saving the Emperor, at least for a time, with his song. Nature is really our best healing source. It’s the true elixir. This is a great secret revealed here. A teacher told a story of meeting a monk in Tibet and she asked if he needed acupuncture needles and the monk replied when he needs healing he will sit with a tree and the tree will heal him. When we flow with the natural rhythms, there really is healing power in nature. Humanities problem is we live outside those bounds of nature for 3,000 years and it’s only getting worse. Today, many of us have lost our connection completely to nature. Anyway.
The nephew thought this was long. He did like the robot bird in the story, completely missing the point of it. He thought the story was ok. He gave this 3 stars.
Jerry Pinkney did the illustrations in this edition.
bnross925's review
2.0
2.5/5. I definitely remember reading this as a young child, so that brought back pleasant memories. But otherwise, I found this to be pretty dull.
5elementknitr's review against another edition
5.0
An inclusive retelling of a classic tale.
Jerry Pinkney's art is so rich and detailed. I think I spend more time reading his books than most other children's books I read. In this one, the amount of detail that went into creating the fabric of everyone's clothing kept me in the pages for nearly an hour!
Jerry Pinkney's art is so rich and detailed. I think I spend more time reading his books than most other children's books I read. In this one, the amount of detail that went into creating the fabric of everyone's clothing kept me in the pages for nearly an hour!
sean67's review
3.0
Fiona Black retells a Hans Christian Andersen - why?
Who knows
I mean why don't they just publish the Andersen version or is it now of favour because of some reason?
Anyway it is a pretty decent story but I just wonder why it needs to be 'retold' by this biddy.
Who knows
I mean why don't they just publish the Andersen version or is it now of favour because of some reason?
Anyway it is a pretty decent story but I just wonder why it needs to be 'retold' by this biddy.
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