The crisis is brought on when Owen announces, "I have to bring Fuzzy to school." What to do? You can see the close connection from these quotes. In this worthy story, your child can learn how to keep this warm connection while reducing social embarrassment. Social pressures to relinquish the objects often make the child even more insecure. Children vary a lot in how long and how extensively they rely on these friendly objects. In any case, any book that teaches children to love handkerchiefs (Fuzzy's eventual fate) has got to be doing SOMETHING right.Īlmost all children have a favorite blanket or stuffed toy that makes any situation more comfortable. Just the same, kids will like Owen and those with their own comfort blankets will perhaps be inspired by his mother's ingenious solution to their woes. However, this is more a moral for parents than children. There's nothing particularly ground-breaking in this book and the moral at the end is, if anything, that ingenuity is far better than untried advice. And Henkes's illustrations are delightful. They are certainly attentive, that's for certain. Their not particularly comfortable telling Owen no on anything. Owen's parents are a kind of new-agey type.
Soon Owen will be going to school, and his parents attempt more than one possible solution to pry Owen away from his favorite blanket (with the help of the ever-nosy Mrs.
Owen is nothing so much as Linus from "Peanuts" in mouse-form. Fuzzy goes wherever Owen goes and does whatever Owen does. Owen is a small mouse that is the proud owner of a yellow blanket named Fuzzy. Henkes has created the kind of story he excels in. Is there anything he cannot do? From inspiring books like, "Lily's Purple Plastic Purse" to the far more adult (and Newbery Honor Award winning) "Olive's Ocean", this man is accomplished in the extreme. OL469273W Page-progression lr Pages 28 Ppi 350 Related-external-id urn:isbn:8424133633 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:51:02 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA149305 Boxid_2 CH114601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed.
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