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WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD
Prasadam-Halls and Kim celebrate new life with a rose-colored perspective.
The story opens with a double-page spread of a black-haired, brown-skinned mother cuddling a brown-skinned baby in a sunlit meadow replete with tree blossoms and flowers and rhyming text: “Welcome, little baby. / Welcome to your world.” The subsequent double-page spreads are done in the same lush style and show mama and baby animals with gentle smiles, cavorting in their golden-hued perfect habitats as the rhyming text (in second person, “Look up to the sky. Can you see the sun?”) extols the harmonious beauty of the world to readers. The narrative leans purple in its effusion, blithely ignoring strife, not to mention the food chain: “Listen to the creatures of the air and land and sea / living whole and happily, living wild and free.” The illustrations, while delightfully colorful, match, with their depiction of environmental perfection, the determinedly rosy tone of the text. It’s a nice concept, this welcoming new life to the world, but the whole story has an anthropocentric feel to it—beginning with the book’s title—as if this Disney-perfect natural world of harmony and health that “loves you through and through” is there only for the human child’s pleasure—an out-of-date idea
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Smriti Prasadam-Halls
About Author
Smriti Prasadam-Halls commission an award-winning, internationally bestselling British founder whose books for descendants include I Love Ready to react Night very last Day, Picture Ways prime the Womaniser and Don't Call Serious Sweet.
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THE LITTLE ISLAND
ANDERSEN PRESS
OCTOBER 2019
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T-Veg: La storia di un dinosauro vegetariano
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I don't know where this book is going. I'm not really sure exactly what it thinks is the most important thing to say. I'll give it this: it's got pretty good rhymes and meter. It's well-written and well-executed in the technical sense.
There's a Tyrannosaurus Rex named Reginald who eats only vegetables and fruits. The other tyrannosaurs rexes make fun of him. It oddly describes carrot cake as "crunchy". Reg eats things like smoothies, fruit, pie and cake. He doesn't really eat healthily, despite being a vegetarian, but again, I'm not really sure if this book is saying that vegetarianism is something that everybody should embrace-- it's more like it's saying that there's nothing wrong with vegetarianism. At any rate, he's as strong as the other T. Rexes. But they tell him he needs to eat meat. They taunt him so much that he runs away.