It's great for lessons about pets! Nov 06, Tabitha Vanover rated it liked it Shelves: eccepart I enjoyed this book. The boy just wanted someone to play with so he wouldn't be board. An he found a friend. Apr 15, Paola Nunez rated it really liked it Shelves: eccebooks.
I like how this book shows the differences in having a pet and a friendship. I also Like how the little boy has a great imagination. Nov 17, Mayra Harrison rated it really liked it Shelves: educational. This book is about a child who wanted to keep different animals but can not. This book is very educational. I really enjoyed reading this book. I would read this to children who are 4 and up. Jul 28, Heather Lee rated it really liked it Shelves: picture-books.
Really cute. Aug 13, Sandy rated it liked it. A fun story with entertaining illustrations. A classic. Also serves as an introductory example to a persuasive argument.
Modren Fantasy 1st-3rd Grade This is such a sweet book about animals and hoping! Throughout the story, it teaches the differences between animals and that there are some animals that would not make good pets. As I kid, it's easy to hope for your mom to say yes to anything you want.
But this cute story holds a good reminder that the answer from mom is often no, and in this case, for a very good reason which she explains. The beautiful illustrations were my favorite part of this book. Mar 26, Mary Hertel rated it really liked it.
This book is about a typical child wanting a friend to play with. We see that he is only a lonely boy and that his mother is too bus to play with him and he just wishes he had a friend.
He eventually finds a young boy who wishes to be his friend and his mother allows him to play with the boy. I This book is about a typical child wanting a friend to play with. Illustrations tell a secondary story. Although they may go along with the words, the images tell their own story. They are not vital to the story, but are vital to a secondary story of the mother's imagination on how keeping such an animal would not be a good idea. On the second page we read that the neighbors do not like dogs, but with the images we can see that they hate dogs all together and wish their were no dogs at all.
This story does a good job in displaying the real curiosity and and way a child would act. The circumstances in the book remain realistic except when they get to the more dangerous animals such as bear a tiger. Children really do wish to have pets to play and bond with although some animals were not optimal for that position.
The mother's reasons are also very realistic int eh way of shutting down the child, but doing it in a nice way. The situation of parents being too busy to play with their child and the child being lonely is also a very realistic situation in which most children go through nowadays, the ending with him finding a friend is a great way to suggest to the child to find others like themselves and play outside. Nov 02, Jeffrey rated it liked it Shelves: read-in , children-s-books.
A cute little book about a child struggling for attention and companionship while his mother has to do the household chores. It's from the seventies, if you haven't guessed. The child keeps trying to bring pets home with increasing audacity as the mother struggles to keep finding reasons to reject his latest acquisition.
It's fun and silly and the art does provide some nice in-jokes for the parents, but the coloring and fine-line work don't translate as well in the modern bright and clear artwor A cute little book about a child struggling for attention and companionship while his mother has to do the household chores.
It's fun and silly and the art does provide some nice in-jokes for the parents, but the coloring and fine-line work don't translate as well in the modern bright and clear artwork era. Still a nice little addition to the collection and good for early readers to read aloud. Cute story about a lonely little boy with an active imagination for acquiring a pet. But his mother adamantly refuses every companion he proposes, so he ends up befriending a new neighbor boy instead.
Color is effectively used only in the imagined scenes to help readers differentiate between the daydreams and the reality in this story. The mom has a s-housewife aura about her, but then this picture book was published in Oct 10, Abby rated it liked it Shelves: childrens-illustrated. This is a very amusing and entertaining story about a boy who keeps bringing pets home, and his mother who always has a creative excuse for why he can't keep them.
The illustrations have a humor all their own, with sly visual gags hidden in the background it made me giggle to myself a couple times. Jan 22, Jacqueline Lang rated it it was amazing. I thought "Can I Keep Him? The plot was very light and funny. The little boy is looking for someone or something to keep him company and his interactions with his mother are very cute. The ending is adorable and very well written.
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