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All Mine! | Carol Zeavin, Rhona Silverbush

#ExploringBooks. #PlayingWithBooks #LivingWithBooks What if? You were suddenly gifted A Bookshop? What would you do? How would spend your time? 😍

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Make a back room into my bedroom and move in! 👍 6y

JanePratt Shoot. First thing I would do would be to catalog and dewey decimal system the crap out of it. Then I'd invite all my friends and family to come read there. 😍 6y

Jobe @JanePratt An organizer I think if there was a way to hug a bookstore I would probably hug it first then run through it saying It‘s mine it‘s mine it‘s mine 6y

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Jobe @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I would stay there all the time for sure but would go home to sleep probably 6y

JanePratt @Jobe I have to have my books organized. That way when I'm dying to read a specific chapter of a random book I can just run to it! Lol 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Jobe But if your room is in the back or apartment upstairs, you can go down anytime and browse....even if you need a new book at 2 am. LOL 6y

AlaSkaat I think I'd go in and lie on the floor for several hours overcome with happiness. And then I'd walk around smelling books, one by one. Only then I'd manage to open up and read while sitting on a chair made of books. It would be the best day ever!! 6y

Shvonne Hopefully there is an apartment above it so I can move in. 6y

Jobe @OleAnder Your response would be more like mine lots of looking around and smelling and taking it in 6y

Jobe @Shvonne Exactly! 6y

AlaSkaat @Jobe Yeah. Of course after that I would only go out to socialise every once in a while-which is how I'd make my money for food. By selling the books I read and did not like! Lol. I have it all planned already! Someone give me a bookshop already so I can lock myself away 😂😂 6y

hollylynnbee @Jobe I am so glad I am not the only who smells books! 6y

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LibrarianRyan

All Mine! | Carol Zeavin, Rhona Silverbush

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0⭐️ This story started out okay. One child wants something another child is playing with. The teacher interrupts the fight and tells kid a to tell kid b some version of you can have it when I‘m done. I was fine until we get to the Jojo character. I have two complaints. The first is that Jojo is coloring and when child d comes to color the teacher has Jojo tell kid d that the crayons are “All mine”. Excuse me? 👇🏻

LibrarianRyan Excuse me? What happened to sharing. Plus crayons are a set. Why can‘t one child use one crayon, and another a different crayon. And most parents are trying to get their children away from screaming “mine” not running more towards it. The interesting part is that the Not to parents at the back (I really hate this part of the book as well in almost all books currently). 👇🏻 6y

LibrarianRyan This note says “Sharing is simply not a concept that a yo0ung toddler can grasp… yet”. It says that it is until age 3 toddlers should be developing and mastering their “self” identities and only after that can they learn to share. Then for problem two, let's look at the illustrations. 👇🏻 6y

LibrarianRyan Jojo is the only obvious POC child. And its Jojo he gets to tell someone else it's “all mine”. I might have noticed this years ago, but after a parent complaint about a fairy book, I see this now and it infuriates me. Why is the black child the child who is given the less polite term. Or seen as the child not sharing. Hummmmmmmm. Yep, it‘s a no for me with this book. 😡 6y

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GingerAntics Oh lord. So much wrong with all off the above. 🤦🏼‍♀️ All children need to learn to share, and no child should be made the bad guy. This is not a opportunity to create an “other.” 🤦🏼‍♀️ Um...I‘ve seen some very sweet 1.5/2 year olds share when they‘re in a good mood. Sharing in no way diminishes their personal identity. 🙄 Good lord what is happening here?! No one should read this blather to their children. 6y

GingerAntics I wonder if this philosophy that they can‘t handle sharing yet is how we end up wit teenagers and even adults that still can‘t share. 🙄 I swear. It‘s called modelling, people. I give this zero stars and I didn‘t even read it. Can you hide that in the newspapers or something? That‘s almost dangerous for children. 6y

ravenlee I‘ve seen a trend away from teaching kids that they have to share everything (which is really unfair and a rotten message - why should I have to let someone else have what‘s mine just because he/she wants it?), but this goes to the other extreme. 6y

LibrarianRyan @GingerAntics @ravenlee in the beginning I didn‘t mind the wait your turn message. That is a valid message but the all mine, yeah. No. I see it having complications in the future. 6y

GingerAntics @ravenlee @LibrarianRyan I don‘t necessarily mind teaching kids that some things aren‘t for sharing, because some things just aren‘t. We definitely need to teach the waiting turns thing, but not at the expense of sharing. The crayons are one good example of this. You can share the crayons, but if someone is using the blue crayon and you need the blue crayon for your picture, you‘re going to have to wait your turn. 6y

LibrarianRyan @GingerAntics exactly! 6y

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