3 1/2 A Mostly Unimaginative Outing

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	• Beatrice Doesn't Want To Laura Numeroff Candlewick, 2004 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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A Fun Book!

[...] While the outcome might be predictable to you, in the eyes of a child it's probably not.

We got this book out of the library, have had to renew it several times. My 4 year old daughter enjoys this book. She enjoys the expressions by both Beatrice and her brother Henry. This book has become part of the bedtime routine for over a month.

I will say that as a parent I found some of the illustrations to be off. On the page where Beatrice finds herself in the children's room, the character Wanda does not look really interact with Beatrice in the illustration.

The story is enchanting; however, the illustrations could be a bit more accurate in depicting what is happening in some instances.

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3 1/2 A Mostly Unimaginative Outing

Popular author Laura Numeroff ("If You Give a Mouse a Cookie") and teams with the prolific Lynn Munsinger in this cute book about a dog who follows her brother to the library, but doesn't like to read. Henry drags his clearly unhappy sister, Beatrice to the library, where he needs to finish a paper. Beatrice refuses Henry's suggestion to read; instead, she just wants to watch him work, and she pours herself and her saccharine smile all over the increasingly frustrated Henry. Beatrice follows Henry for three straight days, until Henry has had enough. The reader may have had enough of Beatrice as well, for the humor of her unvarying, cloying smile is stale after awhile.

On the third day, Henry sees a library poster announcing a book reading that afternoon. Henry encourages his sister to attend, but Beatrice says, "I don't want to." Henry comes back with, "Too bad!" While waiting for the reading to begin, a dog introduces herself to Beatrice: "'Hello. My name is Wanda,' said the girl in the next chair. `This is the second time I've heard this story.'" "'Big deal!'" said Beatrice.

However (surprise, surprise), the book reading is a big hit. The librarian reads about Albert Mouse and his new roller skates, and Beatrice, who likes to roller skate, begins to show interest and even smile. Like Albert, she had once roller-skated in the house, and she listens and laughs and even looks over the book after the reading. When Henry comes to take her home, she replies, "I don't want to," hugging the book with her eyes closed dreamily and a big smile on her face.

The warm and welcoming story may encourage kids who have reservations about libraries or reading. Munsinger clearly depicts Beatrice's emotions, but she relies too heavily on Beatrice's somewhat comical expressions. The book's thin plot is fairly predictable. The pictures are too static and the colors are not very imaginative or exciting. Actually, Henry seems the more interesting of the two dogs, and the best scenes are those in which the brother interacts with his sister.

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Sally Doesn't Want To Either

This is a children's book about a little girl, a little sister who has a preconception about books and has to go to the library with her older brother.
Beatrice is a little girl who doesn't like books nor wants to go to the library with her brother Henry. But she has to go becuse he has to do a book report on dinosaurs, and she goes to the library for three day's in a row. Henry tries to suggest things for Beatrice to do but supprisingly she doesn't want to.
I like this book because I read it to my daughter and she enjoys it. It is a good book to read to her because it shows her how she can act sometimes when she "doesn't want to." The book helps her see that even though she may think that something is bad because she doesn't like it, doesn't mean that it's bad at all. This book is very good especially if you have a Beatrice, or in my case a Sally.

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A humorous story of a stubborn little girl, a patient older brother, and the magical workings of the local library.

Beatrice doesn't like books or reading ? and she especially doesn't like accompanying big brother Henry to the library three days in a row. But that's where he has to take her while he works on his dinosaur report. Naturally, Beatrice doesn't want to get books from the shelf. Beatrice doesn't want to let Henry work. And Beatrice certainly doesn't want to sit in a room full of boys and girls during story hour. Is there anything that could possibly change her mind? Meet Beatrice, a little girl who knows exactly what she doesn't want. Or does she?

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