Customer Reviews

Handbag Friends

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If you have a young daughter - round 5 to 9 - or if she's extra, adorably silly, maybe she could be 10 or 11 - buy this book instantly! It guarantees you a sweet, hilarious, musical time with your child that will banish all sadness, patches of picque, ambivalence about where this world seems to be heading. The language occupies its own universe, the illustrations are totally organic to the text - a perfect literary marriage. Both have been whelped by two brillianty funny English women who instinctively intuit what little girls will love. No miracle, certainly, since it's likely that they were themselves once little girls who responded with unconditional love to ineffably fabulous books. This one, bordering on picture book genius (I deal in understatement) will become a classic. To me, it harbors greatness because I, too, am a children's book practitioner, and it passes the true test: I'm abject that I wasn't clever enough to create such a kiddie masterpiece.

Length:: 1:14 Mins

Handbag FriendsThe Handbag Friend movie clip! Gives you a sense of the fun and laughter and joy packed inside this adventure storybook--and how children up to 6 or 7 once they see it, just can't stop watching it, singing the song and wanting to hear or read the story.

No girl I know...especially those under 10. My two-year-old granddaughter was immediately captivated by the book and wanted it read to her every night at bedtime. It's got everything...cute characters, a not-too-scarey villain, and a singalong theme song even the most muscially challenged can manage. What fun to carry it with you, too, in its chic packaging! A winner.

The story opens with the Handbag Song which I would be happy to sing for you but I think the Handbag Friends themselves would do a better job. Please watch it here.. but be warned its been stuck in my head since I watched this! I'm actually considering naming my puppy Pinky Winky Winky Woo after hearing this!! *laugh*

Handbag Friends is filled with silliness, sparkles, and all things pink! For any of you girls out there that has experienced a five year old girl full of sugar and on a glitter high you know exactly what I mean.

The story takes place Far Far Away where all the ladies in the land adopt baby pink handbags to carry around all their things. Then one day an evil meanie handbag, Clasp, pursenaps all the handbags and keeps them captive on the once happy (and very pink) Planet Pink Handbag. This leaves the Handbag friends homeless and very sad, so off they go on a mission to rescue the baby pink handbags!

This leaves me to my favorite part of the story and Connor will demonstrate for us :

"I'm going to eat you... with my MOUTH!" See Connor's rendition of the bad evil gross purple handbag trying to eat the handbag friends!

I'm not going to tell you what happens but I will tell you the entire story leaves you wanting more. That is if you love sparkles, pink, moon horses, pink, fairy cakes, and silly songs!

I really really really really truely positively absoultely must have a Moon Horse of my very own.. Sally & Sue wherever you found them can you please bring me one? Please pretty sparkles ponies please?

This would be the perfect present for any little girl in your life (or even big little girls like me!). The people at the grocery store already think I'm completely insane as I was caught singing the Handbag song all over the store. *shrug*

I bought this book originally because of its cute shape and lovely pinkness. My daughter absolutely LOVES this book! Out of all the books she has, she chooses this one to be read to her everytime! I found it to be a bit quirky at first, but then I realized that if you lighten up and allow your imagination to take over, this book is great fun!

Here's another winner that isn't appropriate for library lending, but is perfect for parents with kids. The 'handbag friends' live in a handbag, and this handbag-shaped book explores their lives and how they came to live inside a handbag. Enter Plant Pink Handbag, where baby handbags are kidnapped and the world is very different. Reluctant young readers will find in this an encouraging, different kind (and shape) of storybook, complete with pink plastic tote handle.

Is there such a thing as an instant "classic?" If so, HANDBAG FRIENDS is that rare phenomenon. It has adventure, humor, originality, imagination. There is pure joy in every line. I have seen a classroom of children, unable to contain themselves, jump up with delight upon hearing it read. Parents and teachers should all rush to buy this book!

Handbag Friends is a heartwarming odyssey that will speak to children of all ages and genders. My 2 year old girl and 3 year old boy are known to sing the "Handbag Song" at various points in the day. The story of the Handbag friends' search for a home is a universal one that resonates for both parent and child. The book is sweet, clever, hip, poetic, funny and fun. Be sure to read the credits---they are packed with hilarious cultural references from Kate Spade to Yo Yo Ma. This book is an adventure you and your children should not miss.

I purchased Handbag Friends while I was traveling in England last year. After sharing it with my first grade class, I was elated to find out that it is now being sold in the U.S.! My first-graders loved this story, and I would highly recommend it to any child who loves to laugh and delight in the pleasures of an enchanting story.

This lovely book does double duty as both a picture book with vibrant illustrations, and a story book with 64 pages and several chapters. You can read it in one sitting to an older child, or break it up over several readings with a younger one.

Handbag Friends looks like a handbag on the outside (complete with sturdy carrying handle that will stand up to a 4 year-old's attentions), but opens up to a wide panorama of colorful illustrations on the inside.

Follow the six distinct, lovable animal characters (the handbag friends) on their journey through fanciful locations (planet pink handbag and the place of dangerful terribleness, to name only two) as they save the world and find out where handbags really come from. A treat for the imagination! Comic and ironic references make this book as fun for the adult reader as the child he/she reads to.

Note: Don't let the book's pink color fool you! It is just as appropriate for boys as for girls. One of the Handbag Friends, Harry, is "strong and cool, and brave," and he saves the day with his decisive leadership.