Customer Reviews

Granite Baby

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I checked this out from the library and my 3 year old son LOVES this book! I have found myself pulling it out to read to my 6 month old because it is so much fun to real aloud. The language is "downhome" and I can hear my Texan drawl come out as I read about Lil Fella to my children. My three year old smiles and doesn't take his eyes off the pages. Wonderful illustrations, although Ruby is a bit odd.

Folks who like this book will also like MORE, MORE, MORE by Vera B. Williams, which has the same kind of nurturing flow to it.

The pictures in this book were pretty good. And the text was OK. They worked well together. I had a little trouble keeping the names of the five sisters straight. And the concept of a "granite baby" threw me for a loop for a bit. I expected the granite baby to be like a statue. Instead this one moved and cried a lot. There are 16 scenes in this book, almost all of which are two pages wide.

The story is a Paul Bunyan type tall tale set in Paul Bunyan land (upper New England). It is about 5 giant sisters who decide to create a son out of rock. The story is about how they learn to take care of their son.

I would have liked the book better if one of the sisters had given birth to the kid. And I would have liked it better if the illustrations had been done in a different style so I could have remembered the names of the sisters more easily. 4 stars!

Here are these HUGE ladies living in the equally HUGE world who are confronted with a screeeaming little tiny baby and they have NO idea what to do -- until a little "tiny" skinny mountain girl steps forward bravely from her porch, and tells them in very simple terms what needs to be done.

And.....Peace once again reigns in this mountainous world.

The drawings are beautiful -- yet serene. The mountain people are at one with their world, and are equally comfortable with the other, huge residents who also inhabit it.

The range of emotions are conveyed by a word, or a picture -- Look at the cover!!!

This is a fun little book for a little kid and a fun read-to-me book for a parent to read to their little kid-- imaginations can run wild here!