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Lädt ... Barbie: D is for Different (Barbie and Friends Book Club)von Linda Williams Aber
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Danni loves to play the piano. In fact, sometimes Danni thinks that playing music is the only thing she can do right. It isn't until guest author Barbie visits her class that Danni discovers that there are many different ways to learn. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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D is for Different falls under the every day adventures category and addresses learning difficulties. Danni is a terrific pianist but she struggles with spelling. Her struggle is made even worse every time her teacher holds the class spelling bee competition where great speller, Alice, makes fun of her for messing up. Honestly I could relate - except in my case it was a times table challenge - I was always in the bottom three (sometimes I got lucky) and I always hated having to get up and mess up in front of my classmates. I've grown out of caring but man it sucked at the time. I felt very sorry for Danni. Thankfully, I didn't have anyone mocking me for it like Alice does.
Anyway, Barbie is a writer and comes to speak to the class. Danni is mortified that Barbie is there to witness her misspell patience but it gets worse when she's asked to come up with a trick for solving a jigsaw puzzle and everyone laughs (she suggested turn the pieces over to not get distracted by the picture). Barbie follows her when she runs and brings up the issue of learning difficulties and the fact that there are tricks to help. She's referred to the learning specialist and is tested and life starts to improve.
Then the piano recital comes up and Alice's duet partner has to pull out. Mr Gordon suggests Danni to replace her. Danni quickly realises Alice struggles with music and stops defending herself when she realises Alice is lashing out because she feels ashamed of this. That said, Danni is genuinely nice. On recital night, she realises Alice is dreading it, like she dreaded spelling bees and she feels sorry for her. When Alice screws up the piece twice, Danni throws her a lifeline - offering to play both parts and let her pretend to play. Afterwards Alice is apologetic for being mean to Danni having apparently realised how she felt about the spelling bees. It was a nice resolution, but I don't know that I believe it was very realistic. It all happened way too fast - I don't know that anyone backtracks that fast. Still, it was a nice message - everyone is good at different things and being different is not a bad thing - a positive message for everybody - kids or not.
Overall I liked Danni and the plot was decent. 4 stars for the target audience, maybe 4.5. My own rating would be 3. A kids book would have to really wow me to get me to rate higher.
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