Customer Reviews

Hello Kitty Everywhere!

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
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Dear Hello Kitty,
your book is narcisistic
and yet we like it.

you have created
a new level of cuteness
with the toocann suit

Why is it that you
have more eclectic fashion
sense than benetton?

Sometimes I think,
though you are a pretty cat,
you are lonely too.

Though I have known you
since I was a little girl,
what's new, pussy cat?

Love from Tara, Jon, David and Lexi

This has to be the strangest review that I have ever written, as I normally write about current scientific thought, aerospace, and cinema. Though I am not personally a Hello Kitty fan, I purchased this as a birthday gift for a friend who is. I was getting ready to wrap the book when I decided to look inside. In a matter of minutes I had read the entire book which consists of Hello Kitty beautifully photographed in a variety of odd settings, accompanied by a pertinent haiku. My personal favorite was the sailing haiku, to wit:

Spray of Blue Ocean,
I neglect to trim the sails.
Let's not capsize, please!

The book will please the Hello Kitty lover in your life; I know it certainly will in mine.

If you're a Hello Kitty fan, you'll think this book is the cutest thing in the world. If you're a lover of kitsch you'll likely laugh long and hard at every page. If you have no idea who or what Hello Kitty is, you'll probably stare in disbelief that anyone would ever publish something like this. In any case you'll enjoy the book because it is cute, funny, and a little bizarre. After all, it's a book full of professionally photographed stuffed animals juxtaposed with haiku poems. This sort of thing just doesn't pop up every day.

You can see Hello Kitty in America ("the red, white, and cute", reads the haiku); Hello Kitty in France ("we seek pink berets"); Hello Kitty in space; Hello Kitty flying a stuffed airplane; Hello Kitty as the devil; Hello Kitty as a mermaid; Hello Kitty by the pool; Hello Kitty in the pool; Hello Kitty surfing; Hello Kitty in a kimono; Hello Kitty roller blading; Hello Kitty dressed in what looks like black leather. Just about every tasteful thing you can imagine Hello Kitty doing is in this book.

Two designers from Sanrio (yes, the Japanese company that created Hello Kitty) collaborated with a Basho scholar from Pennsylvania to create this book. Altogether it makes for a very entertaining read no matter what level one approaches it at. It definitely scores points for uniqueness.

You'll see Hello Kitty doing all sorts of girly things in different countries, all with charming pictures (much like the Blythe book), styled with haiku poetry. while the book really offers little in real educational value, it may get your kid interested in the world, poetry, and/or photography, all of which are good, wholesome activities. For just around $10, buy and consider it a cute alternative to most coffee table books.

Charming and very 'fluffy', its what you would expect ! Aimed more for the younger Kitty fan, its basically nothing more than a selection of cute kitty photos, but good fun.
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This is a fun book to look at. It is full of cute pictures of Hello Kitty all over the world, from a safari, to a jungle, to an ocean scene. With the pictures are humorous haiku.

This book is really, really cute and fun and great for the Hello Kitty fan of any age. The worst thing about it is the temptation to use it as a catalogue for Ebay purchases! Seriously this is loads of fun- beautiful, cute pictures, cute haiku- great for the little girl in all of us!

this is a wonderfull day planner it has hello kitty pictures and she looks so cute, i'm a big fan of hello kitty and this item is one of my favorites,it also has 6 pages to enter phone numbers and address and 2 pages to write notes,is a 16 months day planner so the first page is for septmeber 2005 and the last one is for january 2007, is so cute dont love it till you buy it jeje. i cant live without it..

I swear, if you have any amount of love and sweetness left in your heart, this book will make your day. Who could resist an entire tome of gorgeous pictures of everyone's favorite kitty? They've got little HK travelling everywhere; she's on a dolphin in Hawaii, cheering at a football game, taking her dog for a walk...well, I won't spoil it for you, but suffice to say that every page brings a fresh blast of cuteness. The haikus (told from Kitty's point of view) will help you view the world through a child's eyes again, where every day and every situation is a new experience. A must-read for any fan of Hello Kitty, or any lover of cute.

I got this book for my oldest (then only) granddaughter when she was about 4 years old, and she loved it. She couldn't read yet but had memorized the little poem sentences. Now, she is 8-1/2 and has a sister who has just turned five who I purchased a different Hello Kitty reader for at Costco for Christmas. It, also, is very cute, a worthy purchase, but I want to buy Hello Kitty Everywhere for her as well. The haiku are all positive statements, inspirational, and many if not most of them are gender-focused. But the reviews don't mention this. Maybe it is similar to Polonius in Hamlet when he gives advice to his son, Laertes, in that his advice is a bit over the top, mostly platitudes, truisms, so critiques of Polonius are often on the cruel side. I suggest this comparison because Borders Books had Hello Kitty Everywhere book in their comedy section, not because any customer misplaced it there, rather that is the category they placed it in in their system. I can see this a little bit, because it is funny, and cute, and beautiful, and whimsical, but in addition to everything else, these positive statements written poetically are really amazing. Hello Kitty is experiencing her personal power as a female in this book and I want my now five-year-old granddaughter to have her very own copy. In addition to everything else, my recollection is that each page is thick and glossy, the physical quality of the book is marvelous.