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Mickey & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure (Baseball Card Adventures)

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So my 8-year-old daughter comes up to me and says "Mommy, why do boys like to see women naked?" Where did she get that idea? From reading "Mickey and Me." Pages 34-35 and sprinkled throughout the book the main character, a 13-year-old boy, is blantantly sexually excited by the site of naked women. He talks about seeing them all "naked as the day they were born", saying that the site was "more beautiful than the Grand Canyon", wishing that he had his camera with him, mentioning he had never seen naked women before except for Joe Jackson's wife and that was only for a 1/2 second. And then he says that the site of all these naked women has been his fantasy since he was 11-years-old.

Now, I have no doubt that the above thoughts and feelings might be typical for a 13-year-old boy, but 1)the back of my daughter's book said it was for ages 8-12 which is far too young to have the subject of lust introduced. And, even if this book was for a slightly older group, the lust element is completely inappropriate to the subject matter of going back in time and meeting great baseball players. 2) Girls, like my daughter, might also read this book looking to see the women in the women's baseball league as role models and great athletes not sexual objects. 3)No matter how typical the main character's thoughts and feelings it remains that his attitude is demeaning to women and sends a terrible message out to both boys and girls. My daughter wanted to know if she should take off her clothes for the pleasure of the men in her life!

Honestly! Dan Gutman and his publisher should be ashamed of themselves. We will certainly not be allowing anymore Dan Gutman books into our house. My kids don't need to be sexualized so young.

I read all the "...and Me" books and this one was definitely the best. It had the biggest plot twist in the series that REALLY surprised me.

I recently read Mickey & Me by Dan Gutman. Out of the 6 books in this series which I have read, it was the most disappointing. Stosh never really met Mickey Mantle until the last few pages and it was the 13 year old Mickey Mantle. In all the other books, he always meets the character he's looking for earlier on in the story. Personally, I don't recommend this one.

This was a great book! It started out sad. Then Joe's dad asked him to go back in time to save Mickey Mantle. Instead of ending up in Yankee Stadium watching a game-Joe ended up in Borchert Field watching the Milwaukee Chicks play! It was a very good book. I will read Babe and Me next.

Sadly, I found out about the parts referenced in previous reviews after my 10 year old son read the book. His 8 year old brother was all excited to start it and on the first page I noticed the boy was talking about his dad being drunk. I mentioned that I wasn't very happy with that and my older son said "that's not the worst of it". He was too embarassed to tell me himself, so I looked at reviews and then double-checked the book pp. 34-35. These books could be informative and entertaining on their own, so why the author feels he needs to include boys lusting after naked females is beyond me. Way to introduce that to innocent kids. It's such a shame. My boys have heard a couple of these stories on CD, but I am so put out with this that I won't be bringing any more of Gutman's books into my home. Disappointing!!

Some great parts of the book - Mickey throwing a potato onto the field and Stosh meeting Mickey Mantle without knowing it. Great book for anyone who likes baseball and history.

Mickey and Me is a very fasinating book about a kid named joe,and he can travel through time with old baseball cards;He must save Mickey mantle from a fall that ruined his baseball career. The author is Dan Gutman.

Excellent description of the western prairie. Realistic stories of immigrant life and struggles. Memorable characters caught in the social constrictions of that time and place.

I love this book!!!!!!!! I love Dan Gutman's style of writing. This book is great for kids who love baseball and historic fiction.

I purchased the book as a gift for my children. They love the series and have all of them. I highly recommend the series. It engages the minds of the readers in a fictional, imaginative way for those avid baseball lovers.