A delightful story to share with your little ones

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	• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2005 - 42 pages average customer review:based on 47 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I wish everyone reads this book.

This book was written about thirtyeight years ago. This would explain words like "sassafras salad", or the "timothy compote". These must have been the very popular delicacies of the time, but the theme of this book is timeless: be careful what you wish for while it is important to wish.

A delightful story to share with your little ones

I love this story...Sylvester is such a sweet character, his parents make you so sad that they can't find him and there he is, right under their noses! It's a simple story, one that even the youngest children will appreciate. I especially like how the parents never really gave up looking for Sylvester and even though he wasn't around, he was still very much a part of their lives. Our loved ones never truly leave us, we are reminded of them daily in all sorts of ways. Such a nice sentiment to share with our children.

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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

I was disappointed in the book as a whole. When I read it to my second-graders, their "review" of the book was mixed. I don't think that I will be reading it again to another class.

There is always hope

This is quite a touching story filled with lots of symbolism. It actually hits home for a friend of mine. Her husband did not want to have a child and so she terminated her pregnancy out of great disappointment. The savegery of a lion serves as a symbol for what can take a child donkey away from you. The magic pebble is like God that wisks the donkey child away to safety. The wolf howling on the rock in the middle of winter is suffering from the pains of hunger, hunger to have a child back. You can think especially of a mother's pain when a child is gone and the hunger she has to have him back, sort of, the winter of her discontent. The donkey parents try their best to find joy despite their sadness, and, like in a dream come true, their son, Sylvester, is back. It says that even after a very catastrophic event to not lose hope no matter how terrible it can be.

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One rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. But when a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish that brings unexpected results. How Sylvester is eventually reunited with his loving family and restored to his own donkey self makes a story that is beautifully tender and perfectly joyful.

Illustrated with William Steig's glowing pictures, this winner of the 1970 Caldecott Medal is a modern classic beloved by children everywhere. Now reissued to celebrate the discovery of the original artwork, this deluxe edition contains painstakingly careful color corrections made from those watercolor originals -- the color you'll see within this book is as Mr. Steig had originally intended it to be. It also features his moving Caldecott Medal acceptance speech.

The New York Times Book Review wrote of Mr. Steig that "everything he does is magic." This deluxe edition of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble truly recaptures that magic for a whole new generation of readers.

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