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Are You My Mother? | 
 enlarge | Author: P.d. Eastman
Brand: BIGTOFFICE
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Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 3476
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 72
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.7 x 0.4
MPN: ING0394800184
ISBN: 0394800184
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780394800189
ASIN: 0394800184
Publication Date: June 12, 1960
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Product Description
A newborn bird's identity crisis takes him on a quest to find his real mother.
Amazon.com Review
This is the classic from which many of our staff first learned to read, starting us on a path of unremitting bibliophilia. Are You My Mother? follows a confused baby bird who's been denied the experience of imprinting as he asks cows, planes, and steam shovels the Big Question. In the end he is happily reunited with his maternal parent in a glorious moment of recognition.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 96 more reviews...
 traumatic and horrifying December 1, 2008
E. R. Hood (panama)
While i can understand the usefulness of this book for parents of adopted children, when i was little i thought it was just AWFUL!
I always hated that book, and it made me terrified of getting lost and not being able to find my mother (not that i was ever in any danger of being out of her sight for 1 minute...). I remember thinking that the story was cruel and calloused, and i felt so sorry for the poor baby birdie.
To this day (25 yrs later), my mother, sister and I, still joke about being traumatised by "are you my mother?", and refer to it as "that awful book".
If your kids like it, that's fine, but i will never buy this book for my kids.
 Great beginner "MaMa Book" September 23, 2008
Mama from PA
This is the one of my 19 month's old favorite book. He will point to it and say "Mama Book" and will sit still listening to me reading this book from the beginning to the end. He loves the pictures and Snort looks like Jack (from the Thomas the tank engine) so he is very happy to see Snort. This is an excellent book to introduce a toddler to reading.
Great Children's Book September 14, 2008
Nanci Johnson (Central Coast of California)
Are You My Mother?
This is a great book for young children. I loved it as a child and my grandsons love it.
Adoptive Daughter loves it August 12, 2008
NT (NW USA)
We adopted a little girl from abroad. She is still a toddler and too young to discuss adoption. We got her this book to see how she would react. It has become her favorite that she MUST have read to her every night. We feel it is helping resolve issues she might have with being adopted. She especially likes that she can take control of the little bird herself and move it through the scenes to its mother.
 Two boys' review: It is just a bedtime book, not a social message July 29, 2008
Jared Castle (Roseburg, Oregon United States)
The years haven't been kind to this book. The illustrations are somewhat dated and, judging by the other reviews here on Amazon, there's an angry contingent of parents with abandonment issues who would rather you skip this book for a guide to raise Indigo Children.
I'm just here to review a bedtime book for my two sons.
More than with most books, I really have to act as I read this book to keep their attention. I'm the cow with a nasally Blue Blood voice, I'm the dog with a droopy drawl, and I'm the snort...SNORT!
My boys like this book and we read it regularly at bedtime. Their bookshelf holds roughly 80-100 books and P.D. Eastman occupies two titles in our collection -- A Fish Out of Water and Are You My Mother?
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