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The Day I Ran Away by Holly L. Niner

hugbandit7's review

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4.0

This is a cute story with a bit of a lesson for both children and parents. All children (actually people of all ages) will get upset at one time or another and this story shows that if you handle it properly and have taught your children well that it will all work out. I like how the mother handled the situation - giving her daughter some freedom and letting her think she was running away from home without actually leaving the yard. In a small way she turned it into an adventure and having taught her daughter some lessons earlier in her life about crossing the street, she was able to keep her close. It was really ingenious!

The only thing that was wrong is that the story never says the little girls name in the text. No where in the story does mom or dad call her by her name. (at least not in the ARC that I had been provided). Her name does appear in an illustration, and while I did look at the illustrations (they depicted the words beautifully) I would not have expected to have to look there for her name.

sandylovesbooks's review

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5.0

How adorable!! I love the parents in this book and the little girl and doggie are so cute. The illustrations are fantastic. I want to run away too. It did remind me of when I ran away with my best friend, we were around 8. We made sandwiches, got chips and drinks, with no lids, and walked to the end of a street where there was a field. We sat and complained about our families and ate our lunch. Then got tired and went back home. So there, this kind of thing has been happening for a long while.

samagader35's review

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3.0

The illustrations are adorable - 4 stars in that department; however the actual story line was a bit...frustrating for me. I'm not sure the mother should have reinforced the fact that just because things weren't going the way the daughter wanted them to meant she could run away (only to the yard) from her problems. I'm all for teaching independence, but just because she ran off didn't mean her problems vanished. Her purple shirt was still dirty, her favorite cereal still gone, and the once clean white shirt is still covered in purple marker. All she really learned was that if she doesn't like how things are going and pitches a fit then she can run outside and hide in her tent and her mom will bring her cookies and still make her favorite dinner.

bhavani's review

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4.0

I can never get over how beautiful children's books are and how they deliver deep, meaningful stories with just a few words and wonderful expressions.

pqlibrarian's review

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4.0

I received this from a Goodreads giveaway. A lovely story of a dad recounting spending time with his young daughter, recounting her tough day which caused her to run away...to the backyard. A sweet story with beautiful illustrations.

jmshirtz's review

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3.0

I liked that the parent didn't lose her cool when responding to the child's actions, but I questioned some of the parenting decisions. To each her own. Still, I was left with a negative overall feeling that "running away" was somehow now a fun thing. Couldn't it have changed to family camping or something? Not my favorite.
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