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Angelina Ballerina
A Day at the Fair
When Angelina takes her little cousin Henry to the local fair, they have many adventures and surprises.
32 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2002
About the author
Helen Craig
227 books14 followersHelen Craig is a British children's book illustrator and author, best known for creating the Angelina Ballerina series of children's books with writer Katharine Holabird.
Craig began illustrating children's books in 1970. The first book which she had both written and illustrated was The Mouse House ABC, published in 1977. With author Sarah Hayes, she also created Bear, a popular children's character who appears in This Is The Bear (1986), This Is The Bear and the Picnic Lunch (1988), and This Is The Bear and the Scary Night (1992).
Craig began illustrating children's books in 1970. The first book which she had both written and illustrated was The Mouse House ABC, published in 1977. With author Sarah Hayes, she also created Bear, a popular children's character who appears in This Is The Bear (1986), This Is The Bear and the Picnic Lunch (1988), and This Is The Bear and the Scary Night (1992).
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April 11, 2023
Here's another book series based on a TV show. Funny, I thought that reading books was very different from passively watching TV animation. Now it's time to meet Angelina Ballerina™.
This time it's dancing mice. And, notice please, Angelina and her friend Alice are wearing TOE SHOES. Straining credulity exponentially, right from the get-go. Okaaaaay.
THEN THIS BOOK GETS WORSE, IMO
One way I can tell that this book wasn't written for a child, but for an adult caregiver?"Angelina sighed and, fixing a grin on her face, took [little Henry] by the hand."
So this ballerina mouse, who has advanced all the way to wearing toe shoes, is now doing fake smiling? And this is noted casually?
ONE THING I LOVE ABOUT KIDS, AND ALSO ABOUT GOOD KIDS' PICTURE BOOKS, IS THIS
All their varied expressions. Those expressive little faces that go through so many feelings and movements. Three-year-old's don't pull phony faces.
Sure, an adult could teach children language like fixing a grin on her face. I'd sure feel sorry for any child of picture book age... who had to learn about fake smiling and what to call it.
TO BE CLEAR, THIS BOOK HITS MANY MARKS
* Adventures. Adult-sounding adventures.
* A happy, if totally predictable ending.
* No reference to the kind of experience that a real child would have.
THREE STARS then, for adult readers who have such puny understanding of children; such little understanding that they can go through the motions, reading a child a book like this, while pretending to themselves and the child -- that this has been actual "storytime for children."
This time it's dancing mice. And, notice please, Angelina and her friend Alice are wearing TOE SHOES. Straining credulity exponentially, right from the get-go. Okaaaaay.
THEN THIS BOOK GETS WORSE, IMO
One way I can tell that this book wasn't written for a child, but for an adult caregiver?"Angelina sighed and, fixing a grin on her face, took [little Henry] by the hand."
So this ballerina mouse, who has advanced all the way to wearing toe shoes, is now doing fake smiling? And this is noted casually?
ONE THING I LOVE ABOUT KIDS, AND ALSO ABOUT GOOD KIDS' PICTURE BOOKS, IS THIS
All their varied expressions. Those expressive little faces that go through so many feelings and movements. Three-year-old's don't pull phony faces.
Sure, an adult could teach children language like fixing a grin on her face. I'd sure feel sorry for any child of picture book age... who had to learn about fake smiling and what to call it.
TO BE CLEAR, THIS BOOK HITS MANY MARKS
* Adventures. Adult-sounding adventures.
* A happy, if totally predictable ending.
* No reference to the kind of experience that a real child would have.
THREE STARS then, for adult readers who have such puny understanding of children; such little understanding that they can go through the motions, reading a child a book like this, while pretending to themselves and the child -- that this has been actual "storytime for children."
December 22, 2015
Another Angelina book. This one is about responsibility (or the lack of it). Our girls just adore Angelina, but I'm not a big fan.
August 15, 2017
Revisionist history!! Get the original. This one, based on the TV version, isn't nearly as good. Pictures are terrible.
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