Customer Reviews

Ten Kids, No Pets

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Great book! I would give it more stars if I could. I love Ann Martin. I've read it so many times! I love the way you look at it from everybody's point of view and it has a great ending!

This book is AWESOME!! I love it so much, and that's why I am getting the sequal, Eleven kids, One summer, out from the library. I really reccomend this book. It's great for all ages and it's a wonderful book about a family with 10 kids. The family moves from the city to the country, and ALL the kids want a pet. Just 1 little pet! But their mom says: "10 kids is enough." The book is about what all the kids go through. Through tradgety and humor, happiness and mourning. This book is both engaging and suspensful!!!


Hannah Fein, age 8

In this funny story Abigail, Bainbridge, Candy, Dagwood, Eberhard, Faustine, Gardenia, Hannah, Ira, and Janthina share their view about life and everything possible. From wanting a pet to wanting to be an only child. Full of humor and fun this book is great for ages 8-12. Also, part of a set. A second book is Eleven Kids, One Summer.

I first read this book when I was 8 and I loved it! Ten years later I'm still loving it! When I was little, I would read it all the time because I loved the secret room, and all the kids with silly names! I think this is a great book for any age, and it never gets old!

First, let me say that this review is of the 1989 edition. I see that the book is back in print, but I don't know if they've updated it at all.

Now, my review has two parts. The kid part, and the grown-up part. The kid part is pretty short and it runs as follows: I enjoyed this book as a child and re-read it a few times, my nieces enjoyed this book when I read it to them and want to read the sequel, so for pure "kid enjoyment" you pretty much have to say this book has earned its four star rating.

As an adult...

As an adult, I have to say that it occurs to me that Ann M. Martin's writing is incredibly unrealistic. I mean, first, in order for the Rossos to actually have nine births in nine years, each child would have to have been conceived about three months after the last birth (assuming no premature births). But not any closer or they wouldn't be able to fit a kid in each grade. I mean, they really don't have much wiggle room. And then there's the twins with their twin-talk... something which a. isn't as common as all that b. persists primarily with neglected children and c. is typically based upon the actual language the kids hear every day... so if you know what they're saying, you should be able to work backwards and figure out where they got that phrase from, like any babytalk. And then there's the mom's pregnancy (the sequel is Eleven Kids, One Summer, so I trust I'm not spoiling anything here), which is epically horrible. The kids think she's seriously ill! (And she went through this nine times before, yet failed to recognize it for kid number eleven?)

When you come right down to it, as an adult there were a number of places where I was going "yeah, right" at the book.

Luckily, I'm not the target audience. Okay, so the writing is a bit formulaic and there's a lot of completely unrealistic stuff going on. The nieces liked it (it only took us two weeks at a chapter a day, so that's something), I liked it as a kid - that should be enough for anybody.

Just, uh, if you read it as a child? Put it away now. Don't ruin your childhood memories with logic and reason!

The Rosso family includes 10 kids, but no pets...because, their mother says, that many kids is enough for any household. Despite her stubbornness, the Rosso kids are just as stubborn, and determined to get a pet of their own.

Each chapter is told from the POV of a different Rosso kid, from 14-year-old Abbie to six-year-old Jan. For those who grew up familiar with Martin's Baby-Sitters Club series, the happy, noisy Rosso clan is a bit reminiscent of the eight-child Pike family...

Overall, a light, but enjoyable read.

I remember reading this book for the first time and loving it. I liked how each chapter was a different kids story. I also loved the ending. This is a book that every young girl would enjoy.

This book is great. All the 10 kids really want a pet and keep getting pets, but eventually they have to give them away.I also like this book because of the ending and every chapter is from someone else's point of view.I loved this book and I'm sure you will too.

I loved Ten Kids, No Pets. I read it in the middle of 1999, and I still remember some of my favorite sentences. The ten Rosso kids have a very strict rule: NO PETS! "Ten Kids is enough" say their parents. All the Rosso kids try to hide pets, and all the kids even try to save their turkey at thanksgiving! I rate this 5 stars because it is a funny, happy aventure story about ten kids who have no pets but really,really want ONE LITTLE PET.

That book was my absulute favorite book. I checked it out from the library and was intreged the whole time. If you like adventure,and fun in one you will enjoy this book!