Title: Not a good message
Product review: While S. Boynton's other books are well written, I really don't like the message of excluding others in this one. It seems that the hippo is shy and no of the other animals ask her to play until late in the book and then it ends with the exclusion of another animal..the armidillo. My son likes the pictures so I have re-framed the book to include a "because she is shy" in a reasonably positive voice and in our house the armidillo gets to play as well (it is "and the armidillo" on the last page.)I give this book 2 stars because of the illustrations and pleasant rhyming scheme.
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