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aparth's review against another edition
2.0
The storyline is a bit problematic as with some other titles in this series.
The basic plot revolves around these two best friends going to the beach and enjoying themselves. But then the boy befriends another boy, leaving the girl feeling invisible and left out.
So far so good....but this typical kind of social tension is resolved when the girl (feeling an outsider) buys a new ice cream for the new boy when his is stolen by the seagull.
Kind of sends the message that you need to buy your way into cliques to be accepted. Would have been more powerful if the new boy gets (maybe by explaining to shopkeeper what happened rather than buying) a new ice cream for the girl. This would show that he was aware of trying to include her all along.
May be looking too closely into a kid book but pre school aged kids read these things over and over and are very shaped by what they read and see.
The basic plot revolves around these two best friends going to the beach and enjoying themselves. But then the boy befriends another boy, leaving the girl feeling invisible and left out.
So far so good....but this typical kind of social tension is resolved when the girl (feeling an outsider) buys a new ice cream for the new boy when his is stolen by the seagull.
Kind of sends the message that you need to buy your way into cliques to be accepted. Would have been more powerful if the new boy gets (maybe by explaining to shopkeeper what happened rather than buying) a new ice cream for the girl. This would show that he was aware of trying to include her all along.
May be looking too closely into a kid book but pre school aged kids read these things over and over and are very shaped by what they read and see.
krisz's review against another edition
1.0
AS is such a talented illustrator, I love his pictures.
He should stay an illustrator.
The P&P stories are so over-simplified they creak and crack, but this one almost did me in. Okay, so P&P go to the beach (I never know which is which, again the proof that he is not a writer) and P falls asleep. While she sleeps, P meets an other friend and they play. Until this point, i say, well, simple but not offending.
But then.
But then, when the new dog friend loses his ice cream, P *BUYS HIM* an other one. What the daisy?!? Are we really teaching kids they should BUY FRIENDSHIP? They should pay for the sin of thinking ugly of a friend?
Also, while P&P lick one scoop, the new friend has 3.
This is just so unfair.
He should stay an illustrator.
The P&P stories are so over-simplified they creak and crack, but this one almost did me in. Okay, so P&P go to the beach (I never know which is which, again the proof that he is not a writer) and P falls asleep. While she sleeps, P meets an other friend and they play. Until this point, i say, well, simple but not offending.
But then.
But then, when the new dog friend loses his ice cream, P *BUYS HIM* an other one. What the daisy?!? Are we really teaching kids they should BUY FRIENDSHIP? They should pay for the sin of thinking ugly of a friend?
Also, while P&P lick one scoop, the new friend has 3.
This is just so unfair.
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