Tillman, Nancy On the Night You Were Born. BOARD BOOK Feiwel
and Friends (Macmillan), 2005. $10. 9781250164018
This book addresses young readers with a message about how
important they are. It begins with the
night you are born and talks about how all of nature was made aware of your arrival
as your name was spread by the wind. It
encourages the reader to look to nature if they ever doubt how special they
are, because all the animals, moon and heaven celebrated their arrival.
Ugh. This is super sappy and feeds into the
self-conceited notion that the whole world revolves around one person. The illustrations are weird and have a creepy
distorted baby face overlaying the moon. I do like the message that never
before has the world known someone as special as you, but then it gets to be a
bit much. What happens when that child
grows up and realizes that everyone doesn’t know their name?
PRE-K – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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Yes! This is exactly like my response to this book. The only reason I haven't reviewed in on my website is because I'm planning on doing a full video review on it. I really don't know why this is so popular.
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