Badger's parting gifts

Format:

Book

Title:

Badger's parting gifts

Author:

Varley, Susan.

ISBN:

9780688026998

9780688027032

9780688115180

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

25 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm

Summary:

Badger's friends are sad when he dies, but they treasure the legacies he left them.

Subject(s):

Badgers -- Juvenile fiction.

Death -- Juvenile fiction.

Children's stories, English.

Death -- Fiction.

Badgers -- Fiction.

Animals -- Fiction.

Genre:

Children's literature.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... McMinnville Public Library	155.937 Varley	Searching... Unknown
Searching... West Salem Branch Library	JP Var	Searching... Unknown

Summary

"The gentle message holds particular validity for children and is conveyed in a tenderhearted manner." --Booklist

"Warm and sensitive." --Publishers Weekly

All the woodland creatures--Mole, Frog, Fox, and Rabbit--love old Badger, who is their confidante, advisor, and friend. When he dies, they are overwhelmed by their loss. Then they begin to remember and treasure the memories he left them.

Told simply, directly, and honestly, this uplifting story will be of tremendous value to both children and their parents. A gentle classic that can help foster communication, care, and understanding.

Reviews (3)

School Library Journal Review

Badger's friends are overwhelmed with their loss when he dies. By sharing their memories of his gifts, they find the strength to face the future with hope. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

Warm and sensitive illustrations reflect the hopeful mood of this tale about woodland animals learning to accept their friend Badger's death. Ages 4-up. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Kirkus Review

Hollow echoes of The Wind in the Willows. In watercolored drawings with a rough resemblance to Ernest Shepard's, Badger first ponders his death, then peacefully goes to his death (seated in his rocker, by the fire). . . in a dream of running and tumbling down a Long Tunnel, ""as if he had fallen out of his body."" Reading his good-bye note, his animal friends remember his goodness, and weep. ""The snow covered the countryside, but it didn't conceal the sadness that Badger's friends felt."" Then, one by one, each remembers something Badger had taught him: Mole, how to cut a chain of moles from a piece of folded paper; Frog, how to skate; Fox, how to knot a tie properly; Mrs. Rabbit, how to bake a gingerbread rabbit. These, they decide, are Badger's ""parting gifts."" And, come spring, Mole says ""Thank you, Badger""--""believing that Badger would hear him. And. . . somehow. . . Badger did."" Facile, trite emotionalism that capitalizes on the emotional richness of the look-alike original. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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