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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not Your Sugar-coated Fairytale
The European version of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Matilda hosts a great moral to the story for children that lie. Not a fairytale ending...thankfully.
Published 14 months ago by Fraueinkaufen
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3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Surprisingly Awful Book
Obviously from the German style of fairy tales, this book is beautifully illustrated, but somewhat horrifying for adult sensibilities. Children, however, did not seem nearly as horrified as the adults who read this book, suggesting the pictures of Madeline burning alive in her apartment was just part of the moral for them. An interesting read although not one I could...
Published on December 2, 2002 by Lane Young
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not Your Sugar-coated Fairytale,
By Fraueinkaufen (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Matilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death (Library Binding)
The European version of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Matilda hosts a great moral to the story for children that lie. Not a fairytale ending...thankfully.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ummm, people - this is the poem by Belloc, not the book by Dahl,
This review is from: Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful Lies . . . . (Hardcover)
Apparently whoever put this page together doesn't grasp that it's about the poem by Hilaire Belloc, as illustrated by Posy Simmonds, not about Roald Dahl's book.
The poem is hilarious - one of Belloc's Awful Warning poems - and the illustrations of a beady-eyed, sneaky looking Matilda set it off beautifully. I recommend it highly!
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Surprisingly Awful Book,
By Lane Young "Teacher and Librarian" (Highland Park, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Matilda Who told Lies (Picture Puffin) (Paperback)
Obviously from the German style of fairy tales, this book is beautifully illustrated, but somewhat horrifying for adult sensibilities. Children, however, did not seem nearly as horrified as the adults who read this book, suggesting the pictures of Madeline burning alive in her apartment was just part of the moral for them. An interesting read although not one I could wholeheartedly recommend to be read to children.
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Matilda Who told Lies (Picture Puffin) by Hilaire Belloc (Paperback - May 1, 1992)
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