Donkeys

by Adelheid Dahlm'ne, Heide Stollinger (Illustrator), Catherine Chidgey (Translator)

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-07-01 32 English Gecko Press When two stubborn donkeys-who have been together for years-have a silly argument. they each storm off to find someone smarter. sweeter. and huggable . But the cow is too spotty. the goat too short. and the hippo. flamingo. and zebra-all wrong! They soon realize with the help of a lonely camel that no combination is as sweet or befitting as the two of them together.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Solange Vidal]

Encontré este libro en la biblioteca. Es curioso cómo a veces caen libros en nuestras manos que podemos compaginar con cosas que nos están sucediendo. Para mí, tras una reciente separación tiene sentido, sin embargo no sé si un niño -que es el público al que va dirigido- pueda entender por completo la historia.

[The Creature Between Pages]

I loved this story.
The way it portraits a relationship after 25 years of marriage it's adorable. When you spend so long with the same person you end up picking on each other about the smallest things, you end up like two stubborn donkeys.
But it's clear they love each other because when one goes south, the other goes south and when the one goes right, the other goes too. They are always together.
They want to be with one another and that's what this story tells.
It's a children's book that adults should read as well.

[Silvéria]

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[Brielle Reicks]

Donkeys is a goofy story about two married donkeys that forget to celebrate an anniversary and break up to find "better" lovers. This story would be uncomfortable to read to empathetic youngsters, and it actually just feels like a parody disguised as a children's book. The moral is solid (the grass isn't always greener on the other side) and the illustrations make the reader sympathetic for the cute animals, but I probably won't ever seek this book out to read to any student audience ever again.

[João Teixeira]

Boas ilustrações, mas uma história fraca e não totalmente perceptível por quem a lê... Se, no fim, os burros da história chegam à conclusão de que são feitos um para o outro e que nenhum outro animal pode ocupar o espaço do outro, por que razão entre os seus corpos de burro existe um triste espacinho a marcar a separação? E por que razão fica um camelo a dormir solitário com as patas para o ar, como um sinal de aviso para todos os burros perdidos?

[Sandrina Martins]

Os burros mais teimosos e amorosos!

[Tânia Augusto]

Achei delicioso a forma como retrata a relação a dois. Brutal para trabalhar com as crianças. Usei muito quando trabalhei em educação pré-escolar.

[Erin]

Two donkeys are going to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. Yet, because the male donkey slept through the day because the female bent his good ear to remind him causing him not to hear the rooster and wake up, they split. After 25 years, would that really break up a couple that is apparently so "perfect" for each other? I don't think so. Something so small would have broken them up way earlier than 25 years.

[Edward Sullivan]

Odd but amusing story about two old donkeys in love. Not sure how children will respond to this one.

[Francisco]

Kinda cute mas doesn’t really speak to me

[April]

Is this a children's book? It doesn't seem like a children's book. I didn't like it. :-(