About this title: Noble prize-winning author Toni Morrison collaborates with her son, Slade, to present this reassuring look at mean people and angry feelings. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: Near Fine. Children's Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Near fine condition children's pictorial hardcover. Former owner last name inside front cover, very light wear. read more
Description: Very good. Publishers Overstock. A Very Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 25 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Faint mark on back cover of DJ, otherwise Near Fine DJ. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0786805404. Hyperion Books for Children; 2nd Printing; First Printing; 2002; Bound in glossy pictorial cover. Bright clean cover; mild wear at base of spine. Interior crisp, unmarked. Jacket with one short tear, light crinkling near edges.; Square Small 4to 9"-11" tall. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion, NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: New in New jacket. Oversized. White, clean, crisp and bright First Edition, First Printing (1st Edition, 1st Printing) with dustjacket. A very SHARP copy! All of our books are hand selected and are as described. Mylar protective sleeves are available. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Very Good. Previously read with moderate shelf wear. No underlining or margin notes present. We are the Twin Cities' largest independent book store. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pictorial Boards
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: Lemaitre, Pascal. Near Fine in Very Good + jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition, first printing hardcover is near fine with bumped upper tips and micro 'ding' out outer edge of rear board. Text is fine save for one creased, now unfolded page. Professionally reproduced full color dj in new mylar displays well. 48 pgs. "This is a book about mean people. Some mean people are big. Some little people are mean. " In Toni Morrison's second illustrated book in collaboration with her son, Slade, ... read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Pictorial Boards
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: Lemaitre, Pascal. Fine in Very Good + jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition, second printing hardcover book is in fine conditon. No names, tears, soil or blemishes. Professionally reproduced full color dj in new mylar displays well. 48 pgs. "This is a book about mean people. Some mean people are big. Some little people are mean. " In Toni Morrison's second illustrated book in collaboration with her son, Slade, she offers a humorous look at how children experience meanness and anger in ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pictorial Boards
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: Lemaitre, Pascal. Fine in Very Good + jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition, first printing hardcover book is in fine conditon. No names, tears, soil or blemishes. Professionally reproduced full color dj in new mylar displays well. 48 pgs. "This is a book about mean people. Some mean people are big. Some little people are mean. " In Toni Morrison's second illustrated book in collaboration with her son, Slade, she offers a humorous look at how children experience meanness and anger in our ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: Pascal Lemaitre. Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall Square 0786805404. read more
Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: Pascal Lemaitre. Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Glossy pictorial boards, with matching dustjacket. Unpaginated. Mylar sleeve. Unread. Dustjacket has minor edgewear. read more
"What is the deal with this book? This has to be the worst childrens books I've read. It basically "validates" for the bunny (child) that his Mom, Dad, Grandparents, teacher, brother and the babysitter are MEAN.
Ok...if you want the reader (child) to identify with the bunny, fine. I'm sure children do sometimes think that teachers seem mean when they are told to write better or when Mom encourages them to eat vegetables...BUT WHY IS THERE NO EXPLANATION?! Why is there no lessons to teach the bunny (child) how to deal with their perception of mean people in their life? Why is there no explanation to why the people in the bunny's (child's) life might be mean or seem mean? Toni Morrison ends the book by having the bunny deal with the mean people by saying "I will smile anyway"! WHAT???
And then the last few pages of the book made me think that Toni might have been smoking something because they make no sense. It says, "Big people are little when they are mean. But little people are not big when they are mean. Screaming people disappear when they yell. Frowning people scare me when they smile."
If this is the type of childrens book she is going to write....then don't bother! It's horrible!"
"This is my first picture book to review, but I just think it's interesting how a great adult writer doesn't necessarily know how to do children's books. I don't like her underlying philosophy in this book and another children's book by her and her son. To me, it promoted smugness, not kindness."
"Hm. Not sure. Trying to figure it out. Is this a book about bravery in the face of abuse? Or just keeping a good attitude when it feels like everyone is mean to you? Some of the "mean" characters were actually mean, but some of them were not.
My initial reaction was, "Parents aren't mean when they make you eat your vegetables or tell you to quiet down or sit down or sit up or any of those things; they are being parents, and at some point this bunny should figure that out."
But it is, after all, a book for children, so I suppose it is appropriate that the bunny views those authority figures as mean. And I suppose it is a good thing that the bunny decides to smile in the face of all the apparent meanness around him, but there were just some lines that didn't ring true for me. When his mother yells, he "can't hear her". When authority figures get angry and shout, he says they "disappear." That seems like the attitude of a child who has been at the mercy of an habitually ranting parent for a long while.
So I'm still confused about the author's purpose here. Persuade, or merely entertain? It did neither with me. (Or maybe I'm just overthinking a cutesy little fluffy bumble rabbit book?)"
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