Mr. Badger's Birthday

by Elizabeth MacDonald

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803705794
• ISBN13: 9780803705791
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

good book for reading aloud, fun for the very young

The audience for this book may be somewhat limited, but if your child is the right age, this book will be just the ticket. Mr. Badger's Birthday Pie contains many repetitive elements, such as "you run in front, I'll run behind" and "but the fox ran faster". The pattern builds and builds until the greedy fox is tripped up by Great Uncle Ram. The story is a good one for retelling but I have to say that even I am confused by the ending. It's supposed to provide a satisfying conclusion, but it really doesn't make sense. If there were two pies all along, why did Miss Poppy go to such extremes to chase the fox? And, yes, it's a happy ending but a child that's too young will be surprised that they're all eating pie when we clearly saw it smashed... This book works best for 2-3 year olds. Anyone older will get hung up on this mysterious second pie, not mentioned until the end. Where was the other one set to cool? She is described as making "the" pie and setting it to cool, not "a" pie. So, I guess if you're picky (like me) you could use it in unit about indefinite and definite articles. By the way, you can also use this book with older children to introduce recipes using plants we now consider weeds. A good accompanying book, if you'd like to make your own homemade dandelion wine, is The Dandelion Celebration by Peter Gail.