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What a disappointment! This lovely book is (for me) completely ruined by its size! It is far too large and cumbersome to sit and peruse. The illustrations are huge and spread over too large an area. In a smaller format I feel this would be a gorgeous book, but as it is I've had to return it. Shame.

Jude reviews The Lost Words

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I have never written a review for anything I bought before, but I was so disappointed with this product, I felt compelled to do it this time. My daughter spent 10 seconds looking through the book and declared "Boring!" and I have to say I agree with her. The book is huge, but for all its size, it has nothing to hold a child. My daughter loved the encyclopedia of animals I got her, where she discovers something new every time she opens it, but this book i has only a dozen or so animals / plants to offer separated by almost empty pages of what I can only describe as "doodles". And the poems - they are unreadable! I don't know at what literacy level this is aimed at, but definitely not for primary-school children - a child probably needs to have a dictionary with them to read these poems! And they certainly are not easy to memorize. Seems to me to be a piece of self-indulgent waste of paper. Don't buy it. Buy an encyclopedia of animals instead which will actually teach your child something.

mr519 reviews The Lost Words

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I like the story line and how Spoon ends up feeling special because of his own unique talents and things only he can do, but I find that the two references to spooning VERY inappropriate. One reference is in the dedication ("To my spooning partner, Jason -A.K.R.") and one is on the last pages where little spoon can't sleep so his dad invites him to snuggle and his mom invites him to come and spoon. I just don't feel that is appropriate for a children's book. So sad that they would put that into what is otherwise a good story.

brio16 reviews Spoon

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This book is slightly racist, lazy, and really quite insulting to any real credible Irishman or woman. The overall message of this book is... nothing. It is not even nothing in a good safe harmless way, it is a bad nothing. The kind of bad that will erode your soul. If you stare into the abyss that is mediocrity you will read "Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato". The story relies on false sterotypes of the worst kind. An Irishman who is lazy, laying around eatting potatoes, meeting leprechauns. Avoid at all costs.

Micheal G. Brady reviews Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato

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I have owned 6 greyhounds... this isn't a story it is a tongue twister rhyme

Jenny Potter reviews A Greyhound, A Groundhog

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There's no story line, the pictures are dull, & I was left wondering--what's the point? I would not have believed that someone could be gimmicky with Poe & baby lit, but wow--this book has nothing to do with "The Raven"--except for the occasional, non sequitur "Nevermore" from a raven without personality.

Aubrey Lively reviews Edgar Gets Ready for Bed: A BabyLit (tm) Book

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It doesn't rhyme and it encourages kids to touch their eyes. Gross!

Elle reviews Ten Tiny Toes

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I was expecting this to be a story but the book just has hipster illustrations of things from Moby Dick and a word like 'sailor' underneath. It's silly. I was extremely disappointed after reading so many positive reviews. I thought it would be a children's version of Moby Dick. It's useless for a newborn.

Steph reviews Moby-Dick: A BabyLit (tm) Ocean Primer

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This is a really odd children's book. Spoiler Alert! Snow White is so totally overwhelmed caring for the 77 dwarves that she decides to take her chances with the witch. When the witch offers her a poisoned Apple, Snow White responds, I'll take two! She's then pictured sleeping in a blissfully happy state. Not sure if the apples are supposed to be Xanax or what. But was just a little disturbed reading a book to my 3 year old that had the character willfully injesting poison because life got too stressed.

Scott Tepper reviews Snow White and the 77 Dwarfs

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Too much on the same page..somewhat depressing.

Linda M. reviews The Only Child

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Ranking stupid mistakes I made in my customer`s life, buying this book makes the top 10 easily ... For about same amount of money this small book charges for some minutes of looking at it, you could buy the complete Tolkien works as paperback and read a complex famous story!

hoopyfroodprefect reviews Nobody Likes a Goblin

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This is a pretty cute book with nice art-work and a funny story about how Tyrannosaurus always wrecks the activities of his fellow dinosaurs. There are spelling guides to the dino names in the beginning of the books and it is fun to help a youngster say them. The reason for the one star review is that the author couldn't help but slip a piece of propaganda (indoctrination) into the book with one of the characters writing "climate change" multiple times on a blackboard. That kind of nonsense (regardless of which political viewpoint it represents) has no place being in a children's book. Remember folks, we're on the hook new for $1.5T per YEAR to help fight "climate change" and if our efforts are 100% successful then we will keep the global temp from rising .0017C by the end of the century... which is the equivalent temp difference of going up 15 feet on a mountainside.

J. Page reviews Tyrannosaurus Wrecks!

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Firstly, the book is waterproof, which is strange to me. I don't remember the description indicating this. Secondly, the dinosaurs seem quite vicious for the intended age group. I didn't let my son read it, since he is only 2. We're going to stick to other "friendlier" dinosaur books for now.

A. Jones reviews Dinosaur Roar!

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Disappointed in this book. It was promising at first until I noticed it features a "fat" dinosaur. I do not think it is appropriate to teach that to toddlers.

DM reviews Dinosaur Roar!

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They aren't Harry dinosaurs and they aren't all there.

Elizabeth Piccony reviews Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs

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My kids (7, 3, and 2) have been big into dinosaurs lately, so I picked up a bunch of dinosaur-themed children's stories from the library as a light and fun addition to the non-fiction they've been pouring over. This book is not a winner. Pros: The illustrations are vibrant and cute, and it's fun to giggle every time underpants are mentioned. Cons: The rhythm and rhyme are inconsistent (making for a clunky read-aloud), the story was uninteresting to the kids and left the parents wondering how it was ever published. I like silly stories but this one rubbed me the wrong way because it purports to solve a scientific mystery ("Dinosaurs were all wiped out,/A long way back in history./No one knows quite how or why,/Now this book solves the mystery...") by ignoring scientific facts ("It all began when cavemen/Felt embarrassed in the nude"). Dinosaurs and "cavemen" simply did not live at the same time. I even contacted the author to see if I was missing something--but I'm not. Apparently it's just supposed to be a silly book so the lack of accuracy wasn't a concern. For me, the book isn't silly and light it's ridiculous. Claire Freedman's books are highly rated and very popular. We've read about 20 of them. Of the underpants series, Pirates Love Underpants was the favorite in our house because it was easier to read aloud and we were able to enjoy the silliness of the story. Light dinosaur fiction that we have much preferred: Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs by Ian Whybrow, Edwina: The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems, and of course the Dinosaur Train series of videos on PBS.

-M-Martin- reviews Dinosaurs Love Underpants

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I love books. Rarely do I meet a book I don't want to keep or read multiple times. I have never written a bad review for a book before. This book is just not appropriate for young kids. Too much violence and dead dinosaurs and poor writing. I thought this would get my 3 year old excited about potty training because he loves dinosaurs and will only wear dinosaur underpants. Unfortunately this story is not something I want to read to him a second time. It is going in the Goodwill pile.

katealaska reviews Dinosaurs Love Underpants