Customer Reviews

A Blue's Clues Holiday (Blue's Clues (8x8 Paperback))

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

My kids love this book. It has activities that are simple and fun for small kids to do. The cookies that the kids made even came out well. Even if you don't do the activities, the book is just sweet and cute and teaches the kids about the different holidays that are celebrated in winter.

My son (nearly 3) loves this book, and we have been reading it long past the holiday season. He probably loves it because it has all of his favorite Blues Clues characters. I like it because it equally recognizes all of the winter holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa)and discusses activities that are appropriate for all three--making cookies, paper snowflakes, etc. This book is sweet, appealing, and sensitive to that fact that there are many holiday traditions, and for that we give it five stars!

"A Blue's Clues Holiday" is a classic "Blue's Clues" book (featuring Steve) loaded with fun holiday ideas. Like most earlier "Blue's Clues" books, Steve is inserted into the illustrated story using photography.

The book starts out with everyone in the Blue's Clues house making holiday decorations. There's paper chains, paper snowflakes and even a bubble snowman from Slippery. There's also Mr. Salt and Mrs. Peppers' delicious recipe for snowball cookies.

We also visit each of Blue's to give them a holiday present. We see how they all celebrate the holidays.

This book mentions a number of different holidays and some may consider it to be somewhat "politically correct." But really, it's true to the TV series and fans of the show will likely enjoy this book.

This book tries to oversimplify the meaning of holidays in December for children. By doing this, it actually changes the meaning of the holidays, and I think adds more confusion than just explaning the real meanings. Christmas is not the celebration of "birth", it is the celebration of Jesus's birth. I don't know anyone who goes to a hospital to celebrate birth, or hangs diapers and rattles on their house on December 25th. I think kids might confuse babyshowers or birthdays with "Christmas", and eventually parents will have to explain the real meaning anyways. There is nothing politically incorrect about printing the name Jesus in a book, or accurately portraying the real meaning behind Christmas. Because some people don't choose to acknowledge it, doesn't mean the meaning of Christmas changes, or it is offensive say the name Jesus. GOOD GRIEF!

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MY 2Y/O LOVES TO READ THIS BOOK WHILE WATCHING THE MOVIE. IT WAS A GREAT DEAL AND IT CAME IN JUST 3DAYS.I THINK IT GIVES AN EXCELLENT GENERAL VIEW OF WHAT THE HOLIDAYS ARE ABOUT,WITHOUT GETTING TO IN DETAIL TO UPSET ANYONE.

The book is fine from a fun prospective but as a Christian I was irritated that Christmas was represented as a celebration of birth rather than the celebration of the birth of Jesus. If I had realized this before I bought it, it never would have come home with us. This might not be a great concern to other parents, but I believe this is not reprsenting the true meaning of these holidays. I do understand that the children might be too young for long explaniations but the holidays could have been explained with a little more detail.