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5.0 out of 5 stars
A warm hug of a book, 15 Mar 2010
This picture book is ideal for little boys and their gruff and grizzly Dads. After a gruelling start to the day Dad stomps back to bed,(and who could blame him). Mum and the younger children go out - cue Dad and son time. A day of fun and 'bonding' ensues and they clean up the mess together on Mum's return. A lovely warm hug of a book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The counterpart to "When Mum Turned Into A Monster", 3 Aug 2010
This review is from: Grizzly Dad (Hardcover)
This is a short humerous story about a grumpy Dad by the Joanna Harrison, the author of "When Mum Turned Into A Monster". This time its Dad whose grumpy ways transform him into a beast. Of the two books, I prefer the monster mum one, but this book is also an excellent story.
In this story Dad wakes up in a bad mood, likely due to the children on top of him fighting over a toy. His mood goes from bad to worse among the general chaos of a house with three children and two pets until he retires to bed "like a bear with a sore head". When his son wakes him later, its not just his head like a bear, he has been transformed into a grizzly.
With Mum and the girls away for the day, the boy spends the day with his grizzly Dad, and they end up having a great time. He decides having a bear for a Dad isn't so bad, but a bear hug transforms Dad back into himself just before Mum comes home. Mum is less then pleased by the messy house, as grizzly Dad really wrecked the place. As Mom calls the place a pigsty, Father and son walk off to start cleaning, but you can see two curly tails growing.
I really like these kind of stories, because they show that even if parents get grumpy at times, they always love their children. As much as I'd like to be a perfect parent, of course i've been grumpy myself before and so has Dad, this shows its normal, and parents really dont mean it, we make mistakes just like children do, but no matter what we always love them, a message I dont think children can hear too often.
I would reccomend this for ages 2-7
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