Reviews for The 329th friend

The average rating for The 329th friend based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-07 00:00:00 Robert Passloff In this one, Emery is a raccoon with a problem involving self worth: he doesn't feel any. He's always in his tree home eating huge piles of cold mashed potatoes, piled up like in Close Encounters, the classic film from 1978. Emery needs friends, and lots of them. (This means something, this is important.) So he sends invite cards to 328 forest critters to a nice sit down dinner. 328 friends arrive, eat, and chat pleasantly, though not with Emery. So Emery heads back, has a solo meal and figures wow, he's his own best friend, the 329th friend. He comes back out and, wouldn't you know it, the other 328 are waiting for him asking where their new friend Emery raccoon is. Hidden moral: people only love you when you love yourself. This is exactly the wrong message, and not based on any truth whatsoever. It's the same bullshit driven into my head in dozens of mental health facilities I've been in. Fortunately I never listened. I have ideas of my own. Eat THOSE potatoes! Three stars (for effort) ....though the book is as cold as those potatoes.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-13 00:00:00 Marilyn Kobulnicky A decent book. It could easily be titled, "How Emery Discovered How to Love Himself: The Tale of a Raccoon Who Didn't Know He Was an Introvert". But the author went with a more creative title, and it's quite good. Not particularly exciting to read or discuss with children, unless maybe you have a child who is particularly interested in this particular book. It definitely is still a good read, but taken out from the library so you can return it. It's not the sort of book to read over and over again.