A Lot of Otters (Picture Puffins)
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Illustrator: Barbara Helen BergerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-08-01
ISBN: 0698118634
Number of pages: 32
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Book Reviews of A Lot of Otters (Picture Puffins)
Book Review: I'm so grateful this book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I brought our son home from China when he was 3 ?. He loved this book from the minute he saw and heard it in nursery school. While I enjoyed the illustrations, I was hesitant about the story. I was reading it as a practical adult. What about the baby? How were he and Mom going to be reconnected? Was the baby really a star? A human?
No, he was a Moonlet. And through my son's eyes I relearned how to enjoy stories again for what's not in the words. The story is what it is, for the moment, for the beauty, the safety, the comfort and the calm. It doesn't have to be anything else. Children love this book to an extent that I still can't fully understand. But then, I don't have to, do I?
Now, almost 7 years after giving my son his own copy of the book, he got it out last night and read it to me while we snuggled in bed. He is 10 ? now, fifth grade. As he read, he gently told me the story through his eyes. "You see the baby? That's me. And the Mother Moon? That's my birth Mother, and she's crying because she is so sad that she left me on the train to be found. That was very, very hard for her to do, and she's very sad wondering if I'm safe or not. And see the otters that are around me? Those are my new family: Anna, Kate, JianXia (sisters), Dad and you, Mom and my aunts and uncles. Everybody is there keeping me safe. And when my birth Mother sees this she feels happy again, because she knows you'll all take good care of me and that I'm safe."
I am still misty eyed every time I think about my gentle little boy, who thinks of his birth Mother with such obvious love and care and am I'm so grateful this book came into our lives, giving him the opportunity to express some of his deepest concerns and feelings. Thank you Barbara Helen Berger, for this wonderful gift
Summary of A Lot of Otters (Picture Puffins)
Mother Moon is looking for her child. As she calls for him, her tears turn into stars that fall into the sea and are rescued, along with her little one, by a lot of otters. These playful animals cavort and rollick in the starlight until Mother Moon looks down and sees them--and her child, safe and sound. Barbara Helen Berger's poetic words and luminous illustrations are beautifully fused in this dreamlike tale that is just perfect for bedtime."Toddlers are sure to delight in the mischievous antics of all those whiskery otters."--School Library Journal starred review
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