Healthy Living Books Books

Rating: - Outdated, sexist book
This book portrays women as stupid and naive. The mother allows the tiger to come into the house, and does nothing to stop him as he consumes everything in the house. She is then left panicked and awestruck as she realises that she has no food left to make daddy's supper! (Nevermind the fact that neither she or her daughter have anything to eat either, let's only worry about daddy here, as it's mummy's responsibility to see to it that daddy has his hot supper waiting for him when he gets home from work.) Of course, daddy is the only one able to come up with a solution to the problem, because mummy is just a silly lady who plays at tea parties all day with tigers, and knows nothing of the real world or where to buy more food!
These are not ideas that I want to introduce to my daughter. I want her to know that she is strong, smart, and capable of solving problems. This book teaches girls that they are none of these things and that only men are able to think sensibly.

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Rating: - Pop ups a little tricky
I love this little book despite it being criticised as being politically incorrect. I dont think the pop up version works very well as firstly the mechanics are not that good and secondly I think it makes it too cumbersome and detracts from the sweet story.

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Rating: - unacceptable stereotypical functionalist nonsense
As a pre-school teacher I urge you never to read this book in your setting again. It perpetuates the belief that men go to work and women stay at home to shop and cook and childcare. Reading this book to children perpetuates a stereotypical outdated image of both family life and individual roles within a family based on gender, and reading it to children sends powerful messages to them about what roles they will be expected to fulfill later in life. Rip it up and throw it away lest you construct children of tomorrow subject to the same limitations based on gender that we are today. Think hard about how you use language in your setting to construct the norms of childhood and challenge all members of staff to be vigilant when using language and reading stories. NEVER EVER READ THIS STORY TO CHILDREN AGAIN

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Rating: - Great book
I remember this book from when I was younger and had to buy it for my daughter. It was as good as I remember. My daughter asked so many questions about it and really used her imagination.

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Rating: - A Wonderful Re-discovery
I recently bought this for my daughter after spotting it in Marks and Spencers. I earned a few strange looks with my mini squeal of delight, but nevermind! I had completely forgotton about this book until seeing it again, and the memories flooded back as I read the story to my daugher. The simple story will delight any child, but for me, the drawings made the book. A must!!