School Library Journal's Top 100 Children's Books: # 99
Author: Lynn Reid Banks
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
The Recipe: A young boy, Omri, receives an uninteresting plastic toy Indian and a fascinating cupboard for his birthday. He soon discovers that when he locks the toy Indian in the cupboard, the little toy comes to life.
The Frosting and the Sprinkles: Indian in the Cupboard is probably more fascinating to boys. Most girls do not seem to enjoy this book, but it does have potential for an imaginative adventure. The book contains positive themes, such as reconciliation and brotherly love.
The Hair That Fell Into the Batter: Maybe it's because I am a girl, but I found the plot of this book uninteresting, slow, and anti-climatic. The character development is also not great. I could have cared less about what happened to the characters.
My rating:
Out of 5 Cupcakes!
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I haven't read this in a REALLY long time, and I couldn't tell you character names or even the details of the plot...but I remember that I really liked it (back when I was 8). Maybe it's just the kid dream of toys coming to life that I liked.
ReplyDeleteThat made me smile, I so remember reading this!! :)
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Wow, this took me right back to elementary school! I don't even remember if I ever got to see the movie.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Megan - I don't really remember too much about the book, but I liked it when we read it in 5th grade. I think it does have something to do with the idea of toys coming to life. All lil' kids want to believe that their toys have their own fun, secret life when us humans aren't around.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you April. My teacher read this to us when I was in the fourth grade because the author was coming to our school. I was unimpressed.
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