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Title: Not a Very Nice Message
Review: I know that my review will not please a lot of fans of this classic, but...I have to say, this book's message is pretty out-dated, and rather insensitive to many modern families. The baby bird goes up to various animals asking, "Are you my mother?" The answer is invariably, "No. You are a bird. I am not a bird." What kind of message is that for a child? Many children today do not look like their mothers at all!A much better story is A Mother for Choco, about a little bird who wanders around, going up to every animal that bears some sort of resemblance to it. In the end, it decides to live with Mrs. Bear who is also raising an alligator, a hippopotamus and a pig. To me that is a much more beautiful message for children: that a family doesn't have to be people who look alike. A family is just people who love each other.
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