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A review by cswirl1
Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores by James Howe
3.0
Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores is a fun story about three mouse friends who do everything together. They explore and play together and are 3 of the best friends. One day Horace and Morris decide to join a club where girls are not allowed. Dolores, who is left out because she is obviously a girl, is forced to join the Cheese Puffs club. After a while of not being with her friends Dolores decides that she no longer wants to be a part of the Cheese Puffs and her and a friend decided to leave and hang out with the boys. Horace and Morris, and a friends they made, decide to do the same thing. They meet up with the 2 girls and they start a club of their own where everyone is allowed to join.
This story was okay. The story has a good message that I think many kids would be able to identify with. Boys and girls don't just hang out with their own gender, they all play together and enjoy the company of many types of people. However, from an early age we are led to believe that girls should do girl things and boys should do boy things and that they often can not mix. Movies and TV shows often portray this mentality to children and they often follow this stereotype without giving it another thought. This book shows that it is okay to include everyone and that girls can play with boys and vice versa.
The images are also interesting and I feel make the story a little better. My favorite images were the pictures of the clubhouses. The boys clubhouse is poorly put together with what look like pieces of spare wood that you would find lying around. The nails are visible and the sign outside the clubhouse is misspelled. The inside is not better. It is cluttered and very sparse. The girls clubhouse on the other hand is very pretty on the outside with pink walls and a purple door, widow shutters and roof. The inside has a wood panel floor and pretty purple walls. The author does a very good job telling the reader that boys and girls are very different just based on the look and feel off the clubhouses.
The format of the book is also interesting to me. Most of the images are full bleed images, which means that they go all the way to the end of the page with no borders. There are some pages with no text at all and some with just speech bubbles. I find this mix of text types and pages very interesting and they give the book more depth. Overall I liked the book and found the message to be one that most students would like and identify with.
This story was okay. The story has a good message that I think many kids would be able to identify with. Boys and girls don't just hang out with their own gender, they all play together and enjoy the company of many types of people. However, from an early age we are led to believe that girls should do girl things and boys should do boy things and that they often can not mix. Movies and TV shows often portray this mentality to children and they often follow this stereotype without giving it another thought. This book shows that it is okay to include everyone and that girls can play with boys and vice versa.
The images are also interesting and I feel make the story a little better. My favorite images were the pictures of the clubhouses. The boys clubhouse is poorly put together with what look like pieces of spare wood that you would find lying around. The nails are visible and the sign outside the clubhouse is misspelled. The inside is not better. It is cluttered and very sparse. The girls clubhouse on the other hand is very pretty on the outside with pink walls and a purple door, widow shutters and roof. The inside has a wood panel floor and pretty purple walls. The author does a very good job telling the reader that boys and girls are very different just based on the look and feel off the clubhouses.
The format of the book is also interesting to me. Most of the images are full bleed images, which means that they go all the way to the end of the page with no borders. There are some pages with no text at all and some with just speech bubbles. I find this mix of text types and pages very interesting and they give the book more depth. Overall I liked the book and found the message to be one that most students would like and identify with.