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[Following is a volunteer review of "Dynomike: What's Heartfulness?" by Frankie B. Rabbit.]
Dynomike: What’s Heartfulness? by Frankie B. Rabbit is a short illustrated book for children, and ranked as the 8th book of a series. Its leading character, Dynomike, is a playful baby dinosaur affecting red baseball cap with the visor turned to the back of the head. Dynomike’s two friends, biking with him, are Winky, the cherub-looking bird with one eye always on a wink, and Spunky. I could see, the trio is garbed colorfully, and I presume would look attractively enough for the kids, even as the whole story is short — to suit the kids’ short attention span.
The theme for this book, “heartfulness,” is the idea of Dynomike. “Heartfulness is about being kind,” he declared to all his friends. That came at a time when the puppy, Jack Brussels, could not go biking with them in the park because Jack’s mother was sick. So, they thought of a way to help Jack, as they saw him crying. A little kindness perhaps and they came up with gifts, three magical gifts to give. For with kindness comes generosity, and generosity is mostly shown by the act of giving — giving love, compassion, and mercy — that blows up into magnanimity, as wise men say.
I delight in how this book extols the proper attributes to the children, without making them first superheroes. At least, we don’t see here kids brandishing swords or laser sabers, out to save the world from the domination of an evil galactic emperor. Rather, we only have a group of friends trying to do a good deed, well within the capacity of anyone.
The whole book is an artwork of glowing illustrations, and the captions are in rhymes, following a poetic form. We do not have to gauge it against the stressed/unstressed pattern and a syllabic count of a metrical foot; the near-rhymes and the almost iambic pentameter verses sound so pleasing enough to hear. The children would appreciate the tone of lullabies that this scheme imparts. Amazingly, unlike other comic books, there are no pointing arrows to attribute a quote to the speaker. Besides, these crisscrossing arrows may even yet mess up the scene. But apparently, these arrows may not be necessary, after all, because the speaker will be readily identifiable, being the one with an open mouth.
I have nothing to dislike in the book, although I thought that one caption needed some revision. But on second thought, I might just leave it as it is — that might be a regional slang — as the sense remains not to diminish an iota. Dynomike: What’s Heartfulness? is hereby awarded a perfect rating of 4 out of 4 stars.
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Dynomike: What's Heartfulness?
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Dynomike: What’s Heartfulness? by Frankie B. Rabbit is a short illustrated book for children, and ranked as the 8th book of a series. Its leading character, Dynomike, is a playful baby dinosaur affecting red baseball cap with the visor turned to the back of the head. Dynomike’s two friends, biking with him, are Winky, the cherub-looking bird with one eye always on a wink, and Spunky. I could see, the trio is garbed colorfully, and I presume would look attractively enough for the kids, even as the whole story is short — to suit the kids’ short attention span.
The theme for this book, “heartfulness,” is the idea of Dynomike. “Heartfulness is about being kind,” he declared to all his friends. That came at a time when the puppy, Jack Brussels, could not go biking with them in the park because Jack’s mother was sick. So, they thought of a way to help Jack, as they saw him crying. A little kindness perhaps and they came up with gifts, three magical gifts to give. For with kindness comes generosity, and generosity is mostly shown by the act of giving — giving love, compassion, and mercy — that blows up into magnanimity, as wise men say.
I delight in how this book extols the proper attributes to the children, without making them first superheroes. At least, we don’t see here kids brandishing swords or laser sabers, out to save the world from the domination of an evil galactic emperor. Rather, we only have a group of friends trying to do a good deed, well within the capacity of anyone.
The whole book is an artwork of glowing illustrations, and the captions are in rhymes, following a poetic form. We do not have to gauge it against the stressed/unstressed pattern and a syllabic count of a metrical foot; the near-rhymes and the almost iambic pentameter verses sound so pleasing enough to hear. The children would appreciate the tone of lullabies that this scheme imparts. Amazingly, unlike other comic books, there are no pointing arrows to attribute a quote to the speaker. Besides, these crisscrossing arrows may even yet mess up the scene. But apparently, these arrows may not be necessary, after all, because the speaker will be readily identifiable, being the one with an open mouth.
I have nothing to dislike in the book, although I thought that one caption needed some revision. But on second thought, I might just leave it as it is — that might be a regional slang — as the sense remains not to diminish an iota. Dynomike: What’s Heartfulness? is hereby awarded a perfect rating of 4 out of 4 stars.
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Dynomike: What's Heartfulness?
View: on Bookshelves |
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