Frederick (Spanish language) (Spanish Edition)
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Manufacturer: Lectorum Publications
Written By: Leo Lionni
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781930332812
ISBN: 1930332815
Label: Lectorum Publications
Manufacturer: Lectorum Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: 2005-08
Publisher: Lectorum Publications
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Studio: Lectorum Publications
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Summary: For poetry lovers & dreamers of every age!
Comment: THE perfect example of poetry for preschoolers & their parents! My daughters & I have made the "craft-Frederick" detailed at the end of the book. Bonus fun after story-time! ~rhonda bridges
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Summary: A Story to Warm You in Wintertime
Comment: Frederick doesn't appear to be doing much of anything as the other mice work hard to prepare for winter. But, when the days grow colder and greyer, Frederick's preparations warm his friends and family. This gentle story is illustrated by adorable cut and torn paper illustrations.
--Reviewed by Michelle Delisle
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Summary: Frederick
Comment: Frederick is a delightful tale of a mouse who knows there is more to life than work. He enjoys the simple things.
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Summary: And they all starved
Comment: What a horrifying book.
While everyone else in his mouse family was out gathering food for the winter, Frederick sat around doing nothing tangible. Then when they ran out of food that winter and confronted him about it, he started telling stories to change the subject. Thus his ability to distract others kept them from thinking about what lazy mooch he really is.
When this book was in our stack of bedtime stories, I always had to add "...and then they all STARVED." Finally I just hid it somewhere on a shelf. It's not worth the effort to read aloud, especially considering the mindset it encourages.
I have nothing against artists, storytellers, and other dreamers. Entertainment is indeed vital to our quality of life. But what would have stopped Frederick from "gathering his colors" and such WHILE WORKING? I'm sure he could have found plenty of inspiration from nature while gathering his required share. Then he could have happily shared his stories while their bellies were full.
But no. He let everyone down, and the best he could do was to keep their spirits up as their strength slowly faded. As another reviewer said, the "grasshopper" won.
Customer Rating:
Summary: THE BEST OF THE BEST
Comment: This review is addressed to the English version of this work but I am thrilled to see that it is being published in other languages. This is also a review of the original hard cover edition.
Of all the children's books I have read and reviewed, this is perhaps at the top of my list of ten most favorite. I suppose the book appeals to me so much is that I made an instant connection with Frederick when I first saw it and was able to completely identify with him.
This is the story of a mouse living with several other mice in an old rock wall in a field. All through the summer and fall all the mice, except Frederick are busy gathering food and storing it away for winter. While this work is going on, Frederick is first seen lying in the sun. He is then found looking at the flowers, trees and his surrounding and finally when asked why he is setting in a sort of dream like state, he tells the other mice that he is gathering words to be used later.
Later, when winter comes, as it always does, the mice, including Frederick, eat the food they have gathered throughout the summer. Finally, toward the end of winter, when it is cold and the wind is shrieking, and life is becoming hard, the food finally starts to run out and things in the stone wall are becoming rather hard. It is at this point that Frederick comes into his own. Our little mouse hero asks the other mice to shut their eyes. He then describes the warm sunshine of summer, the vivid colors they all miss so much, and finally, using the words he has stored in his mind, he is able to share with the other mice wonderful poetry. Obviously this is a wonderful gift that Frederick is able to share and the other mice are most grateful. Simple story at first glance, but oh, so important!
This story of course brings to mind Aesop's Fable of the Grasshopper and the Ants. Frederick is the Grasshopper in this story but Lionni's conclusions are quite the opposite of Aesop's. I note that this book has come under criticism from several reviewers in that it is claimed that this story gives our children the wrong message. I do know that everyone has opinions and all these opinions are just as valid as any others. What is sort of upsetting in this case though is the venomous tone of some of these critical reviews. My goodness folks, a world with out poets, writers, artists, and dreamers would indeed be a world not worth living in. Now this is my own opinion, I know, but I do urge you to think about it, and think what you are advocating! Work is indeed fine, goodness knows I have done enough of it in a rather long life time, but I cannot help but feel that those who dream contribute just as much to our society as those who don't or are incapable of it. At the end of my work I enjoy the things that have been created by the Fredericks of the world. They add so much to my life. Yes, I appreciate those who work hard providing the necessities of my life, the food, cars, houses, clothing, services, et al, but I also enjoy the product of those others who choose a different path. To teach a child not to dream, as several reviewers have more or less advocated, is a pretty sad thing and I do feel so sorry for the child that is forced to grow up in this sort of environment. Everyone has a role to play in life and who is to say which role is more important than another?
Enough of that for now. I do stand by my statement that this is one of the finest children's books that has been published over the past forty or so years. Leo Lionni is also one of my favorite children's authors and I do recommend the total body of his work. And I still think, as I did when I was a child, that Aesop give the grasshopper a bum rap.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
Summary: For poetry lovers & dreamers of every age!
Comment: THE perfect example of poetry for preschoolers & their parents! My daughters & I have made the "craft-Frederick" detailed at the end of the book. Bonus fun after story-time! ~rhonda bridges
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Story to Warm You in Wintertime
Comment: Frederick doesn't appear to be doing much of anything as the other mice work hard to prepare for winter. But, when the days grow colder and greyer, Frederick's preparations warm his friends and family. This gentle story is illustrated by adorable cut and torn paper illustrations.
--Reviewed by Michelle Delisle
Customer Rating:
Summary: Frederick
Comment: Frederick is a delightful tale of a mouse who knows there is more to life than work. He enjoys the simple things.
Customer Rating:
Summary: And they all starved
Comment: What a horrifying book.
While everyone else in his mouse family was out gathering food for the winter, Frederick sat around doing nothing tangible. Then when they ran out of food that winter and confronted him about it, he started telling stories to change the subject. Thus his ability to distract others kept them from thinking about what lazy mooch he really is.
When this book was in our stack of bedtime stories, I always had to add "...and then they all STARVED." Finally I just hid it somewhere on a shelf. It's not worth the effort to read aloud, especially considering the mindset it encourages.
I have nothing against artists, storytellers, and other dreamers. Entertainment is indeed vital to our quality of life. But what would have stopped Frederick from "gathering his colors" and such WHILE WORKING? I'm sure he could have found plenty of inspiration from nature while gathering his required share. Then he could have happily shared his stories while their bellies were full.
But no. He let everyone down, and the best he could do was to keep their spirits up as their strength slowly faded. As another reviewer said, the "grasshopper" won.
Customer Rating:
Summary: THE BEST OF THE BEST
Comment: This review is addressed to the English version of this work but I am thrilled to see that it is being published in other languages. This is also a review of the original hard cover edition.
Of all the children's books I have read and reviewed, this is perhaps at the top of my list of ten most favorite. I suppose the book appeals to me so much is that I made an instant connection with Frederick when I first saw it and was able to completely identify with him.
This is the story of a mouse living with several other mice in an old rock wall in a field. All through the summer and fall all the mice, except Frederick are busy gathering food and storing it away for winter. While this work is going on, Frederick is first seen lying in the sun. He is then found looking at the flowers, trees and his surrounding and finally when asked why he is setting in a sort of dream like state, he tells the other mice that he is gathering words to be used later.
Later, when winter comes, as it always does, the mice, including Frederick, eat the food they have gathered throughout the summer. Finally, toward the end of winter, when it is cold and the wind is shrieking, and life is becoming hard, the food finally starts to run out and things in the stone wall are becoming rather hard. It is at this point that Frederick comes into his own. Our little mouse hero asks the other mice to shut their eyes. He then describes the warm sunshine of summer, the vivid colors they all miss so much, and finally, using the words he has stored in his mind, he is able to share with the other mice wonderful poetry. Obviously this is a wonderful gift that Frederick is able to share and the other mice are most grateful. Simple story at first glance, but oh, so important!
This story of course brings to mind Aesop's Fable of the Grasshopper and the Ants. Frederick is the Grasshopper in this story but Lionni's conclusions are quite the opposite of Aesop's. I note that this book has come under criticism from several reviewers in that it is claimed that this story gives our children the wrong message. I do know that everyone has opinions and all these opinions are just as valid as any others. What is sort of upsetting in this case though is the venomous tone of some of these critical reviews. My goodness folks, a world with out poets, writers, artists, and dreamers would indeed be a world not worth living in. Now this is my own opinion, I know, but I do urge you to think about it, and think what you are advocating! Work is indeed fine, goodness knows I have done enough of it in a rather long life time, but I cannot help but feel that those who dream contribute just as much to our society as those who don't or are incapable of it. At the end of my work I enjoy the things that have been created by the Fredericks of the world. They add so much to my life. Yes, I appreciate those who work hard providing the necessities of my life, the food, cars, houses, clothing, services, et al, but I also enjoy the product of those others who choose a different path. To teach a child not to dream, as several reviewers have more or less advocated, is a pretty sad thing and I do feel so sorry for the child that is forced to grow up in this sort of environment. Everyone has a role to play in life and who is to say which role is more important than another?
Enough of that for now. I do stand by my statement that this is one of the finest children's books that has been published over the past forty or so years. Leo Lionni is also one of my favorite children's authors and I do recommend the total body of his work. And I still think, as I did when I was a child, that Aesop give the grasshopper a bum rap.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
Illus. in full color. "While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick seems to daydream the summer away. When dreary winter comes, it is Frederick the poet-mouse who warms his friends and cheers them with his words."--Wilson Library Bulletin.
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