I find most of the books in this series funny and charming, but this one rubbed me the wrong way because it goes against what I am trying to teach my children.
Poor Miss Helpful wants to help, but it always ends in disaster. True to life for a lot of toddlers, no? That's the funny part.
But even when kids are trying and failing, we need to encourage them to keep trying, because we do want them ultimately to grow into people who are willing and able to help. It doesn't come without practice. This book doesn't address the idea that people can change and improve; it just makes fun of Miss Helpful instead.
Mme Catastrophe joue avec la maladresse pour provoquer des situations humoristiques. Le style d’humour est évidemment simple, assez premier degré, mais efficace.
C’est étrange qu’en anglais ce livre s’intitule Little miss Helpful (Madame «aidante»), qui donne un autre sens je trouve, car oui elle veut toujours aider, mais cela tourne en catastrophe…
I know that I read more than one of these, but this is the only one I remember clearly. I'm not sure if they all were a book with a cassette or not, but that is what I had. It made the little chime noise when it was time to turn the page. Now that I think about it, I'm not 100% sure that I knew how to read it at first! I also had stickers of these characters and my siblings had pjs.