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Robin Newman

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Hildie Bitterpickles was a little witch who loved the quiet. Unfortunately for her, some noisy new neighbors - a giant residing at the top of a massive beanstalk, an old woman who lived in a shoe with her many children, one of the three pigs fleeing the big bad wolf - began to seriously disrupt her nighttime rest. After getting so fed up that she attempted unsuccessfully to move house, Hildie finally did what she should have done all along: she went and spoke to her neighbors, working to find a solution that would please everyone...

As someone who has had problems sleeping at different points in my life, and who has also had the misfortune to live in some VERY loud apartment buildings - at my last apartment in NYC, I lived above people with a karaoke machine, who believed in regularly partying until the small hours with their closest one hundred friends - I identified with Hildie's woes here on an almost visceral level. Nothing is more maddening than wanting to sleep, and being prevented from doing so by the moronic thoughtlessness of others. I had to laugh at a review I read, claiming that the concerns raised in Hildie Bitterpickles Needs Her Sleep were indicative of suburban intolerance, as I thought that the solution to Hildie's problem - talking it out with her neighbors, and finding a solution that addressed their concerns, as well as hers - was a great example of tolerance and peacemaking skills. In my own situation, mentioned above, I would have been as likely to have a chat with my neighbors, who had the police called out for domestic violence complaints on more than one occasion, as I would have been to keep my windows open, given that some on floors above me liked to chuck raw food garbage out the window. But I digress.

Robin Newman's story in Hildie Bitterpickles Needs Her Sleep is engaging, and I appreciated all of the fairy-tale characters that appeared in it, both as Hildie's new neighbors, in the advertisements placed in the newspaper she reads at one point, and as her new roommates, in the houses she attempts to rent. As already mentioned, I also appreciated the solution here, as I do believe that attempting to address issues directly, rather than flying into a rage and/or attempting to escape the problem, is the better route. Sometimes (as in my own example above) this won't work, but many times it will. The accompanying artwork from Chris Ewald, a video game designer and animator who makes his debut here, are done digitally, and have some witchy charm, although sometimes the background was so dark it was difficult to see the details. All in all, although not destined to become a favorite, this was an entertaining witchy tale, one I would recommend to picture-book readers who enjoy such fare.
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AbigailAdams26 | 1 annan recension | Jan 29, 2021 |
This book is such a cute book that would work great for teaching inferences. This is also a chapter book that could be read and worked with for multiple days with kids. This book is a story about when food goes missing from Ed's farm, detectives are on the case. This has a twist at the end and is a super fun and engaging book for kids of all ages. It is about how Mrs. Rabbit's carrot cake goes missing, and the detectives have to use the clues around them to solve who did it. There are lots of great opportunities to pause and ponder and infer about what happened to the cake.… (mer)
 
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Ms.Stahly-Hale | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 23, 2020 |
I think this book is very interesting. This can be used for any younger students who are being introduced to finding context clues and main ideas in the story. This book is about a case of finding the missing carrot, and the funny twist at the end of the story. The two police ice goes around the farm to investigate about the missing cake. In order to find out who ate the carrot cake, the reader may need to use hints and clues in the story. Therefore, this can be used to help students learn about analyzing the text, to find the main ideas and to make predictions. I will use this in my future classroom because of the interesting illustrations and the plot.… (mer)
 
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soh8 | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 20, 2018 |
HILDIE PICKLES is a rollicking fun read about a little witch who just wants to get to sleep. Too bad her neighbors--all familiar fairy tale characters--conspire to thwart her. What lengths will Hildie go to find some peace and quiet? A shady mouse-realtor (introduced through a thoroughly hilarious newspaper classified ad spread) shows Hildie different options that are each worse than the next. But clever Hildie makes lemonade out of lemons and fashions a satisfying solution to her sleep deprivation.

I loved the digitally created art- which has a lovely pastel feel and a wonderful palette. The visual details will cause readers to linger, and at the word play and lively language will make this a bedtime favorite.
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sylliu | 1 annan recension | Mar 19, 2016 |

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Verk
8
Medlemmar
96
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#196,089
Betyg
4.1
Recensioner
5
ISBN
12

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