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by: Spencer Johnson, Christian Johnson
List Price: $20.99Amazon.com's Price: $14.27 You Save: $6.72 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780399240164
ISBN: 0399240160
Label: Putnam Juvenile
Manufacturer: Putnam Juvenile
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: May 12, 2003
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Sales Rank: 46680
Studio: Putnam Juvenile
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Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese? is a bestselling book that has helped millions of people around the world adapt and succeed in changing times. Now Dr. Johnson has adapted his story for the picture book audience so that, starting from the earliest age, children can view change as a positive thing that can lead to new opportunity.
Young readers will enjoy following the story of the four little characters, Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw, who make their way through a maze looking for the 'Magical Cheese' that makes them happy. And once they find the Cheese, it seems like it will last forever-until one morning when everything changes. Who moved their Cheese? Will it come back? Or will they have to look for different Cheese, venturing onto strange paths, around corners they've never explored? As children follow these friends through the maze of change, they can try to figure out which character they're most like-or which they most admire-and what their own Magical Cheese might be.
Spencer Johnson, M.D.'s New York Times #1 bestselling book Who Moved My Cheese? - An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change at Work and in Life has inspired and entertained millions of adults. Now even the youngest readers can share the story, learning how to deal with change-and win!
Amazon.com:
Motivational author Spencer Johnson (The One Minute Manager, Who Moved my Cheese? for Teens) may have finally found the perfect format for his popular parable on the importance of anticipating and adapting to life changes.
Critics of Johnson's best-selling Who Moved my Cheese? for grownups complained about its oversimplification and lack of substance (and the fact that glad-handed managers sometimes gave the book to employees fearing for their jobs didn't help). But in a kids' book, that simplicity doesn't grate as much, and Johnson's cartoonish characters--sneaker-wearing mice Sniff and Scurry, and the tentative Hem and Haw, ever in search of 'cheese' in the 'maze'--look right at home alongside the rest of Steve Pileggi's crude illustrations.
Of course, Johnson's homily might seem even less applicable to kids than it is to adults, and some of Haw's 'Handwriting on the Wall' (again, lifted directly from the grownup version) will likely prove too abstract (like 'Smell the cheese often so you know when it's getting old'). But then again, kids face more changes than most adults, and they often have fewer tools to deal with them. If nothing else, Johnson's message on 'How to deal with change--and win!' is at least a slight improvement on the more time-honored 'Shut up and deal.' (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Easy way to read this book
This book is very much like the adult version only with pictures. It would be good for later elementary ages through probably middle school. Being a teacher of lower elementary, I enjoyed it myself!
Rating: - Teaching Children the power of choices
I love this book. It is a wonderful book to spark family conversations about the power of change. The illustrations are terrific and allow small children to follow along easily. We read this book often and talk about change and the benefits of trying new things. Extremly relevant and well done.
Mia Redrick
Author, Time for mom-Me-5 Essential Self-care Strategies for Mother's
Rating:  - Cheesy
Calling it "magical cheese" does not make it easy for kids to understand. This book is a disgraceful attempt to sucker more money out of parents who want their kids to succeed. Let's think about the original book and the message it tries to impart. The types of change that the original tries to prepare us for will not come up in a child's life. This has to be the longest picture book in history and frankly it is condescending. No child will ever sit down to read it. The author foolishly takes a very ... Read More
Rating: - Who Moved My Cheese, not only for Kids!
This edition of "Who Moved My Cheese?" is beautifully illustrated and was enjoyed by all of my children from 2 to 12. As an adult, I also throughly enjoyed the book and recommend for children from ages 1 to 99!
Rating: - Great book
I didn't know how well the illustrations were going to be, but I was pleasantly surprised. It covers the entire story line of the adult version and is tailored perfectly for kids. My five-year-old loves it.
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