- Gebundene Ausgabe: 48 Seiten
- Verlag: Knopf Books for Young Readers; Auflage: New e. (17. August 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0517800667
- ISBN-13: 978-0517800669
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 29,2 x 23,1 x 1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 1.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
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It takes God millions of years to make planet Earth, and when he finishes, he takes a long nap. Awakening, he returns to Earth to see how his paradisiacal planet is faring, and is disgusted at what human beings have done to pollute the air, the water, and the forests. Not only that, but humans are threatening each other with war, engaging in religious quarrels, and sinking into apathy.
God appoints two children to go tell grownups to change the way they are living. The adults who run the world, as well as the ones who ignore what's happening around them, pooh-pooh the children's message at first: "Whaddayamean? Don't waste our time, you snotty little kids. You can't tell us what to do. Run away, we're busy." But when the youngsters explain that it is God who told them to save the world, the grownups change their ways. Thankfully, children will be left with the sense that they can make a difference.
John Burningham's unusual illustrations, in pen and ink, watercolor wash, and collage, provide a picture of the planet no reader will forget. Winner of several awards, including two Kate Greenaway Medals and four New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year Awards, Burningham is one of the most highly acclaimed children's author-illustrators of our time. Some of his best-loved children's books include Mr. Gumpy's Outing and an earlier environmental fable, Hey! Get Off Our Train. (Click to see a sample spread. Copyright 1999 by John Burningham. With permission of Crown Publishers, Inc.) --Emilie Coulter
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In this original fable, God, who has been sleeping since creating Earth, awakens to investigate the planet, taking along a girl and a boy. Unfortunately, God doesn't like what he sees and enlists the children's help to change things. The children don't think grown-ups will listen to their pleas to stop polluting, quarreling, and killing. And at first they are right. But when the children explain that it's God who is asking them to stop, the grown-ups miraculously change their ways. This is not the sort of book that children will want to hear a second time: it's preachy, and it won't engage the listener. Still, libraries in which Burningham's ecological tale Hey! Get Off Our Train (1989) moves well may want to purchase it anyway. As in Cloudland (1996), Burningham uses actual photographs in his collages, which he's painted, scratched, and smudged to convey the damaged Earth. The result is striking, and Burningham's deep concern about the future can be clearly felt throughout the book. Shelley Townsend-Hudson
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What a fictitious account of God. Where did this idea of a slumbering God come from? I would not recommend this book for either child or adult. The book uses negative generalizations concerning God, and thrusts the responsiblity of saving the world on the shoulders of children so that he may come visit them again AFTER they clean it up.
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Just awful to manipulate children this way
24. August 2011
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What possessed the publisher to put this into print? It is a massive guilt trip for kids. Distasteful and ... sacrilegious? ... maybe that's not the word I want.
Totally irreverent, toward God as the Creator, and toward the Earth, and toward authority.
Skip this book.
Totally irreverent, toward God as the Creator, and toward the Earth, and toward authority.
Skip this book.
A delightful read for 3 to 10 and maybe beyond...
6. Mai 2006
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Some adults are no fun. This book isn't about NASA or evolution: it's a flight of fantasy for children. What if adults actually listened to children, who unlike us, at age 5 or 6 or so can see right to the point with questions like "Why don't we stop the war?" or "Why do we keep polluting the ocean?" We all know in our hearts that making a mess of God's creation is not a noble thing, so why do we continue to do it? Good discussion starter -- and if your child wants to know about evolution, get another book!
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GOD ONLY KNOWS
28. Februar 2001
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This is one of the strangest and most disturbing children's books currently in print. The up-front and very loud message is "mankind is a despoiler of nature". Behind that is a confused mishmash of self-righteousness mixed up with a guilt-trip apolgizing for the human condition.
We are told that God "took millions of years to make planet Earth". For the creationists this would be a dilemma giving them a slightly longer voyage to Eden than prescribed in Genesis. On the other side the post-Darwin generations would all know the planet was still cooking at only a few million years after Day 1.
Most kids keep in touch with what NASA is up to. When Burningham gives us the line, "there is no life beyond Earth because God couldn't make it work", you can only shake your head. Maybe a stint in NASA's Martian meteorite lab could be useful for our John.
When God perfected Paradise on Earth he caused a deep sleep to fall on the people except for two young children. God invited the two children to embark (superman style) on an orbit or two of the earth to look at the state of the world... and verily, God said, " I do not like what I see"
CUT !! ...
... There's a little problem here with plot development and continuity. Just see what's on the next 8 pages. We are given the full environmental catastrophe which could be taken straight from some "Greenpeace" propaganda. We have pollution; forests chopped down, ice caps melting and starvation.
Work this one out. After God finished making an earthly paradise, He had a long nap, He woke up, and earth was still paradise and then He caused all the people to fall asleep (except young Clark and Lois). The big question leaps out:- just who did all the environmental destruction?
Our two young eco-warriors go around hectoring the industrialists, the priests and the military telling them "God said you must change your ways". How much mayhem can all these people be responsible for when they were all asleep?
Further stretching the bounds of logic we have the children telling the priests "you must stop quarrelling amongst yourselves". They answer " 'Oh if God said to tell us then we must stop quarrelling' said the people who did speak for God."
Go figure.
This book poses as something worthy, with its fashionable green and spiritual theme. Look closely and you will see only a disturbing morass of unenlightened confusion.
FOOTNOTE: In the USA the title of the book is "Whaddyamean". In the UK there is only one D in the title. From here this book gets only a D minus rating. By the way, the pictures are OK.
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