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Title: Frederick lets his friends starve!
Review: I was excited by the Amazon.com online reviews and brief description of "Frederick" in a parenting magazine. Artists are important to any society, and I was looking forward to using this book as one of the ways I communicate that idea to my daughter. What a disappointment!Here's the story: five mice (a very small community) need to gather food for the winter. Four mice end up doing the work while one mouse (Frederick) sits around gathering ideas and inspirations for his poetry. Winter comes, and all five mice share the food that was stored. All the mice are perfectly happy telling stories and entertaining each other until the food runs out. Then they ask Frederick what he stored for the winter, and Frederick spins some beautiful poetry. The epilogue, presumably, is that they all starved because they didn't store enough food!Love, music, poetry: these are the things that make life worth living. But necessities, like air, food, and water, make life possible.
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