I Can Share: A Lift-the-Flap Book

Author - Karen Katz ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Grosset & Dunlap was reviewed on 4-Nov-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book I Can Share: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Grosset & Dunlap. Don´t bother with this book if you espouse traditional views about sharing and how kids should interact with other kids! I got this book to help my twins understand the concept of sharing and was appalled to see that it´s not about sharing at all! This book could alternately be title "This is mine, get your own." I mailed it back to Amazon because I didn´t want it in my house.¤

2) Hardcover Book I Can Share: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Grosset & Dunlap. We love this book. My daughter loves every Karen Katz book that I have read to her. After reading this book many times, one time when a family friend asked my daughter for her favorite stuffed animal lamb, my 18 month old daughter handed our friend a different stuffed animal lamb that was not her favorite. I love that it gives a solution to finding a way to share something without giving it up or taking away from the fun of it.¤

3) Hardcover Book I Can Share: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Grosset & Dunlap. I was actually a little bit disappointed in this purchase. The "flap" is in the same place on the same side of every page. Not very interesting or challenging.¤

4) Hardcover Book I Can Share: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Grosset & Dunlap. My 17-month old was very familiar with the word "MINE" so I bought this book to help us introduce the concept of "Sharing" with her. It worked great. She loved the pictures and lifting the flaps and I have caught her "reading" this one on her own later. She definitely understands sharing now and this book really helped us show her how much happier everyone is when you share. Definitely worth the price. The pages are a nice quality, too, that won´t easily rip.

I wish this had smaller flaps like some of her other books, though. It´s more fun for the baby to lift the small flap to reveal a surprise instead of lifting the whole page the way this one is set up. The baby doesn´t understand how to put the page back down before turning the page, so the whole book ends up with the pages sticking out when you are done and it gets a little confusing. That´s the only downside.¤

5) Hardcover Book I Can Share: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Grosset & Dunlap. Look, I really like this author and own and read a ton of her books to my kids, but this one just really rubs me the wrong way.

My main problem is that the book is called "I Can Share" and then what follows are several examples of kids doing things that are anything but sharing.

For example,

One girl asks, "Can I play with your doll?"

The other girl replies..."No...but you can play with this other Doll."

Ok, That is NOT sharing. Its appeasement. None of the examples are sharing. They are keeping what you have and appeasing the person asking you for something by giving them something else.

Now, ironically, I tend to believe that "sharing" is highly over-rated. We try to teach kids to "share" their toys with other kids, when in fact, we as adults rarely share our toys with our friends.

However, what I don´t want to do is teach my kids that words have bendable meanings...or that this is what sharing means.

The verb use of the word share is as follows:

1. to divide and distribute in shares; apportion.
2. to use, participate in, enjoy, receive, etc., jointly: The two chemists shared the Nobel prize.

None of the actions in this book are remotely close to that definition.

This book should be titled, "I Can Mollify." or even better "How to Spin Your Friends Into Appeasement When They Want Something You Got."









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6) Hardcover Book I Can Share: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Grosset & Dunlap. That’s not fair! It’s mine! For toddlers, sharing can be a hard concept to grasp, but with the help of this book, they’ll learn that sharing can also be fun! Featuring simple, repetitive text and adorable toddlers, this playful little book is the perfect way to introduce the magic of sharing.¤

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