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List Price: 7.99
Our Price: $6.99
Product Details
| Shipping Weight: |
0.50 |
| Author(s): |
William Steig |
| Vendor: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Publisher: |
Aladdin |
| Published: |
02 April, 1987 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| ISBN: |
0671662694 |
| Store Code: |
3441 |
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Description: Imagine all the happiness and wealth you could achieve if you found a magic pebble that granted your every wish! Sylvester Duncan, an unassuming donkey who collects pebbles "of unusual shape and color," experiences just such a lucky find. But before he can make all his wishes come true, the young donkey unexpectedly encounters a mean-looking lion. Startled, Sylvester wishes he were a rock, but in mineral form he can no longer hold the pebble, and thus cannot wish himself back to his equine trappings. His parents, thinking he has disappeared, are at first frantic, then miserable, and then plunge into donkey ennui. Meanwhile, Sylvester is gravely depressed, but tries to get used to being a rock. In 1970, William Steig won the Caldecott Medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble--the first of his many Newbery and Caldecott honors. In this donkey's tale, Steig imbues his characteristically simple illustrations of animals sporting human garb with evocative, irresistible, and heartbreakingly vivid emotions. The text is straightforward and the dialogue remarkably touching. Children will feel deeply for Sylvester and his parents, all wishing for the impossible--that the family will one day be reunited. Sylvester's sweet story is one that endures, reminding us all that sometimes what we have is all we really need. (Ages 4 to 8)
Genre: Early learning / early learning concepts; Fiction; Children: Kindergarten; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Animals - General; Classics; Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Magic; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic; Donkeys;
Average Review: 4.5 stars
Review: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble : I was disappointed in the book as a whole. When I read it to my second-graders, their "review" of the book was mixed. I don't think that I will be reading it again to another class.
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