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Title: cruel and not cute
Review: First, let me reveal my bias. I don't like the story of the gingerbread man - the story that the Matzo Ball Boy mimics. Anytime a character is anthropomorphised by showing a desire to live and is successful as a result of some level of intelligence and yet gets destroyed at the end - I get a little bummed out. I certainly wouldn't enjoy reading this to a child never mind explaining the celebrated cruetly at the end of the story. I just received it as a gift for my child and fortunately looked at it first - sparing her of any unpleasant image of a cute character dying and then being consumed by the brilliant people who were - yes, smart enough to outsmart a matza ball.
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