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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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 30 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: 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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780786805402ISBN:0786805404
Description: Lemaitre, Pascal. Very Good jacket. A children's book written by Morrison and her son. SIGNED by Toni Morrison on title page, NEAR FINE COPY. read more
"This is by Toni Morrison, so I had preconceived notions of greatness. While the children LOVE this book, I do not. The "mean" people in it are the mom for making the bunny eat his dinner, the teacher for grading the bunny off for sloppy homework, and his brother for telling him how to play chess. There's no explanation at the end that those actions are not "mean.""
"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."
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