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The art work is spectacular but the ending is such a disappointment when compared to the original work. Eliminating the heavenly reward creates a shallow ending in my opinion. I'm sending this version back and getting the original to give as a gift. Some stories should just be left unedited. I think this is one of them.
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The pictures are beautiful but they have completely ruined the story. We read this story to our children each Christmas Eve and we wanted pictures to go with the story. How disappointed we were with the liberties taken in this rendition of a wonderful story. I am going to cut the book apart for the pictures and include them with the original text by Oscar Wilde.
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There is a reason Oscar Wilde is a classic literary figure and the "reteller" of this story is not. This is a horrible, sloppy, politically-motivated destruction of a beautiful children's story. I have to admit that I bought it without completely understanding that it is a "retold" story. Why? The original wasn't good enough? Imagine adding pink lipstick and bright blue eyeshadow to The Mona Lisa and you'll get the idea of what has been done. Yuk. It wasn't even worth the trouble of returning and its now a healthy addition to my newpaper recycling pile. I'm also disappointed I HAD to give it one star in this review. I tried to give it less.
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It's been years since I read Wilde's The Happy Prince, so when I saw this sitting on the shelf at the library, I just had to check it out. Done in large, picture book style, Grodin's retelling of this classic children's tale is quite lovely. The book starts out with a bit about Wilde's life and ends with a page on homelessness and the virtue of "caring" which is nice, but well over the head or interest level of the children on the low end of the recommended age rage listed for this book (4-8), and though the story itself is fine for reading to children on the low end of the age range...my guess is that the subtleties of the message will be lost on most 4-5 year olds without adult prodding about the "lessons" of compassion and charity that this book has to offer. Still it's a classic and, I think a message worth giving and receiving.
Overall, The Happy Prince has never been a very "happy" book, that is to say, even in the original, the prince was melted down and the bird died...what's missing here is the bit where they get to go to heaven, chosen by one of God's angles as the two most precious things in the city. Grodin gave the book a more secular ending where the man charged with pitching them into the furnace decides they deserve better and buries them in the city center (presumably where the statue once stood), under a tree in a planter marked with the words compassion and kindness...so despite the loss of the direct Christian religious overtones of God and the virtues, Grodin manages to deliver the message of the original and I think that's wonderful. I give this version of The Happy Prince five stars, the text is lovely and the artwork is stunning and evocative of the story...at first dark and depressing and as the city becomes a happier, kinder, more compassionate place, it brightens and becomes lighter in look and feel.
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Don't both purchasing this book unless you want a fake and not the original story. I purchased this for my great nephew, as a birth present. When the order arrived, I immediately turned to the last page - the page where God is mentioned and the story comes to its conclusion and true meaning. To my surprise, God was left out! Really?? Not sure what the "re-write" author was thinking on this one. Unbelievable to mess with such a classic story. Very Disappointing.
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This is my favorite story of all-time but I would never recomend buying a version that alters the ending. I am an agnostic and even I think it is beyond insane to remove the most beautiful/moving part of the story --
" 'Bring me the two most precious things in the city,' said God to one of His Angels; and the Angel brought Him the leaden heart and the dead bird.
'You have rightly chosen,' said God, 'for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.' "
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I ran across this version of The Happy Prince while looking for a copy illustrated by Ed Young. Please be informed that this story written by Elissa Grodin is not the same story as written by Oscar Wild. The ending has been changed to replace God and Heaven with a secular ending. (Personally, I believe that it takes just as much faith not to believe in God as to have faith in God.) I first came across the Oscar Wild's original story around 1985 and I think that it is his best children's story. It is a very selfless story of a statue and a sparrow. While reading the story for the first time I could not but wonder where the story was going and then questioned the apparent ending until I read the last two sentences in the book. The book then became truly the most moving and heart rending story that I have ever read. Let each person reading the story discover it as I did that first time. I gave the book written by Elissa Grodin one star only because I could not register a lower rating.
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