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This is a super effective horror story with a better twist ending than m night shyamalan.
This is a kind of weird story but quite hilarious. I think the students will not stop laughing at he level of greed displayed by the clay boy. Students can talk about quantities and measurement. Students can use this to expand their imagination by suggesting what they would have done if they were the parents of the clay boy.
Grandma and Grandpa are lonely so they create a little clay boy. After he is put into the oven to dry, he comes out alive and hungry. The Clay Boy eats all the food in the house, he then eats Grandma and Grandpa, all the animals and all the villagers. It isn't until a goat with golden eyes appears that everyone is rescued. This book is disturbing. I would definitely not recommend it for very young children. The Clay Boy is never redeemed even though all the villagers and animals are saved. The e...
I was attracted to this book based upon the cute pictures. Unfortunately it has a touch of scary Grimm fairy tales to it. (The clay boy eats the Grandpa and Grandma who created him.) This book may be no big deal to some, but could be frightening for other children. References to greed and handing stories down through the family are minimally made at the end that I don't see much value in reading this one. Not enough positive to outweigh the negative, in my opinion.
A retelling of a Russian folktale about an old couple that make a little clay boy and it comes to life (sort of similar at the beginning to the story of the gingerbread man), but it demands more and more food, and keeps growing, and eventually devours a whole town, and the only thing that stands in its way is a goat . . .
A Russian folktale about being careful about what you wish for or you will get eaten by a clay boy and a ram will save you.
I liked it because it was really funny and I also liked the story.
Holy cow! I joked that he would eat the people that made him. Funny thing.... Silly story.
4-year-old found it pretty scary...
Dramatic and vivid paintings enliven this tale of a clay boy created by some lonely grandparents, who then becomes a ravenous creature who ends up eating them and everything in the village. The paintings have interesting perspectives, and the fonts used for the story itself help to tell the story. Luckily, a clever goat breaks the clay monster and the spell, and is celebrated by all the grateful survivors who come out alive from his stomach. If only we could shatter the hideous monsters who thre...
I was never fond of the more grim versions of Red Riding Hood etc., and I'm not of this, either. Some might find it funny, which may or may not have been the author's intention.
I didn't like this one. I thought it would be a cute book to read to my daughter but a clay boy created by a grandma and grandpa who eats the whole town including them then rescued by a goat...uh, NO!
For a bit I was thinking, wow, this is kind of morbid. Then, hooray goat!I guess the moral of the story is be happy when your kids are gone, don't make clay kids because that is certainly no substitute for real ones (especially if they are really hungry clay kids), and always keep a goat around because you never know when you'll need it.
This was a very interesting/morbid Russian Folk-tale that I would feel would captivate many elementary students. However, this book would disturb many other students with the use of paintings of the Clay Boy and from most of the choices the Clay Boy. Clay Boy is a decent folk tale to implement into the classroom because it spices up this genre and provides something different for most of the classroom to enjoy.
This makes me think of golems.
Grandma and Grandpa are lonely after all their kids grow up and leave them, so Grandpa uses extra clay to make a clay boy. As he dries and comes to life, he begins to want more and more food until they cannot feed him anymore. After running out of food, the clay boy cried again, “More! More!” and went outside to eat all the animals, Grandpa and Grandma, and then the whole time. As he walks through the town he runs into a goat who tells clay boy to close his eyes so he can jump into his mouth. Th...
“Clay Boy” is an ancient Russian folktale retold by Mirra Ginsburg and vividly illustrated by Jos. A. Smith. Even though “Clay Boy” has an interesting plot and beautiful pictures, the story and some of the images may be too scary for kids to handle.Mirra Ginsburg creates the perfect horror/adventurous story about a greedy clay boy’s attempts to eat everything in its path until he meets a clever goat who puts an end to him. Jos. A. Smith’s illustrations are somewhat disturbing yet beautiful at th...
A lonely grandma and grandpa decide to make themselves a clay boy. They feed him and he just won't stop eating. He's get so huge he begins eating everything in site, including grandma and grandpa both. This story could be used to discuss adaptations and in math to talk about measurement and the instruments used to measure with.
This book begins with a Grandpa and Grandma whose children have grown up so Grandpa makes a "clay boy" and he comes alive. He is greedy and eats up all of their food, their animals and even them. He proceeds then to go and eat other people and things in the village until he comes across a goat who leaps into his belly, freeing all of the animals and people who were previously eaten. they dance and celebrate the cleverness of the goat.The theme is about greediness and how detrimental it can be. A...
FEED ME MORE!A lonely old couple constructs a boy out of clay. He turns out to be very HUNGRY, and swallows all humans and livestock who cross his path . . . all but one that is.This is a nicely illustrated take on an old folktale. I really liked that the humble goat was the hero of the story. True, it's a slightly darker fairy tale, but if your kids can handle Little Red Riding Hood and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, they should be fine with this story of overindulgence.