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Aww....  I love stories where the parents are odd, and the child wants to be normal, until s/he learns a new way of finding her or his identity in the world.  Ruby wants so badly to be normal that she has named her three identical dolls The Three Jennifers" and dressed them in brown and triple-knotted their shoelaces.  And what's so ridiculous about having ice as a pet?  Cecil was calved from a berg, after all.  And ppl have calves as pets."

A weird little story about strange parents and a "normal" child who attracts a pet glacier. She can't stand the pet until he finds her lost doll at which point she finally learns to appreciate him. I loved all the details regarding how to take care of Cecil. It was easily my favorite part of the book.

A weird little story about strange parents and a "normal" child who attracts a pet glacier. She can't stand the pet until he finds her lost doll at which point she finally learns to appreciate him. I loved all the details regarding how to take care of Cecil. It was easily my favorite part of the book.

A weird little story about strange parents and a "normal" child who attracts a pet glacier. She can't stand the pet until he finds her lost doll at which point she finally learns to appreciate him. I loved all the details regarding how to take care of Cecil. It was easily my favorite part of the book.

A weird little story about strange parents and a "normal" child who attracts a pet glacier. She can't stand the pet until he finds her lost doll at which point she finally learns to appreciate him. I loved all the details regarding how to take care of Cecil. It was easily my favorite part of the book.

I recommend listening to the soundscape of the remarkable final piece, ""Telettrofono," on the Poetry Foundation website for full (though rearranged) effect.

This was a very interesting and unique book. Ruby is "a normal girl with not so normal parents." Her parents are quite eccentric, and they go to Norway for a vacation. Ruby discovers that a glacier follows her. The glacier ends up saving one of her favorite dolls. The whole story was quite strange, and I liked it at some points and not others. I am not sure how much children would like this book. It was very cute at some parts, though.

Esp. love the mermaid portraits.

This was the first book out of all of the picture books I have read so far in this course that I did not like. The way all the characters were depicted I found to be very odd. I couldn’t connect with any of the characters in the book. The girl is first described as “normal” with not so normal parents. The parents were depicted as negligent and inconsiderate. I do not think these characters present themselves as good role models. In my opinion, the whole plot of the story was strange and not engaging at all. The story is about a little girl who wants a pet but then when she is in Norway, a glacier decides it is going to be her pet. The child neglects the glacier and wants nothing to do with it until it saves one of her dolls from being outside in the rain. This book had a strange way of getting the main idea across. I believe the main idea is that it is fine to be different and people should embrace their differences.

This book was ecclectic and backwards. Rubys parents are quite a riot- her mom makes tiaras and her dad makes topiaries. They play music and dance through the yard, they eat their sandwiches upside down. Make up drinks like milk and coke, they even play ping pong in the plane. Ruby wants a pet but her parents of course do not think of "normal" pets. On vacation a glacier starts to follow Ruby and her parents claim the little glacier as her pet and it's name is Cecil. This book is funny and would also be understood without reading the texts, as the illustrations are bright and engaging.

So cute and weird!

The care and feeding of a pet glacier. Yes, a pet glacier. Whimsically surreal.

nice pictures!

I love Matthea Harvey's poetry for adults, especially Pity The Bathtub Its Forced Embrace Of The Human Form and her brilliant erasure collaboration Of Lamb. Her latest . . . a kids book is wonderfully, subversively funny. A pleasure for me to read aloud . . . and the boy LOVED it. Pitch perfect illustrations, too.

Strange and sad. And it is amazing to think that it was borne out of an erasure experiment with a $3 book.

This book is full of very odd illustrations involving Mary, a lamb, and various other creatures (including a scary possum). The poems suggest a very complex and dark relationship between Mary and lamb. All of this becomes a little less weird when you get to the final page which relates to the reader the method for how this book was conceived. I am not quite sure I would add this to the children's book shelf in our house, despite its cursory appearance.

Love this book!