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lady_doowop's review against another edition
3.0
Don't particularly like the authors but I want to write just about the books readability and what I liked. What I enjoyed about the book was the different illustrations. Going through all the pictures of kids needing help with dressing up, wanting to go play with friends, or wanting more desserts reminded me of all the little kids in my life and times when we (My family/friends) would remind them to try please first. It was all very cute and I like it as far as a manners book, showing kids all the different situations where a please should be used. It does reference the Christian religion so that might be a turn off for a lot of people but otherwise decent little book.
shighley's review against another edition
3.0
A little repetitive. It might be fun to use with students by covering up the words on the left and showing just the illustrations; what does this child want? I expected a little more depth.
shanny1366's review against another edition
4.0
A surprisingly cute ode to manners. The illustrations are beautiful, the sentences are short and simple, and the font is big enough that kids should be able to easily follow along during story time.
emersonernest's review against another edition
1.0
Please don't read this.
Please don't think the world is a worse place now than 1949 or 1947.
I mean I guess it might have been a better place for rich white guys then, but they don't have it so bad now.
Also, it was terribly written.
Don't write more books meant for children.
Please.
Some of the illustrations were quite good.
Please don't think the world is a worse place now than 1949 or 1947.
I mean I guess it might have been a better place for rich white guys then, but they don't have it so bad now.
Also, it was terribly written.
Don't write more books meant for children.
Please.
Some of the illustrations were quite good.
tansybradshaw's review against another edition
1.0
This is in my work's library and it was read to a Grade 2 class. Considering who wrote the book - you cannot help but get political about it. Before being fired Bill O'Reilly spewed the right-wing vitriol that Fox News does. Some of the statements in this book make perfect sense, others even the class pointed out did not make grammatical sense.
Also, there was one questionable sentence when a child was clearly in distress and they STILL had to say please to get someone to help them. The children found that confusing as hell and not appropriate.
The teacher said you had to use your imagination to figure it out along with the picture is a way to get around it but from a writer and a left wing bias. This book is just another item that builds into the narrative that Fox News had a while back about children these days losing their manners and forgetting to say 'please.'
Also, there was one questionable sentence when a child was clearly in distress and they STILL had to say please to get someone to help them. The children found that confusing as hell and not appropriate.
The teacher said you had to use your imagination to figure it out along with the picture is a way to get around it but from a writer and a left wing bias. This book is just another item that builds into the narrative that Fox News had a while back about children these days losing their manners and forgetting to say 'please.'
pqlibrarian's review against another edition
3.0
I do like the incorporation of illustrations by multiple people, and the credit immediately given. I was enjoying the story until a co-worker pointed out how Patterson and O'Reilly (and really...it took TWO of them to write this?) probably just gathered the illustrations and then threw out suitable sentences for each. It probably wasn't more than 5 minutes worth of work. And I think it's official now...James Patterson is getting everyone's money.
csd17's review against another edition
4.0
Sold. Primarily by the illustrations but also by the one page stories.