Who Moved My Cheese? for Kids: An A-Mazing Way to Change and Win! - Hardcover

Johnson M D, Spencer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399240160 ISBN 13: 9780399240164

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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Review

In Who Moved My Cheese? for Kids, 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 bestselling Who Moved My Cheese? for grown-ups complained about its oversimplification and lack of substance. The fact that glad-handed managers sometimes gave the book to employees fearing for their jobs didn't help either. However, 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" (such as "smell the cheese often so you know when it's getting old") will likely prove too abstract. 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-honoured "Shut up and deal". The book is aimed at children aged 9-12. --Paul Hughes, Amazon.com

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A Note to Parents: Many of the millions of people all around the world who have read Who Moved My Cheese? say the same thing: They wish they had known "The Cheese Story" when they were younger. Wouldn't it be great if, as kids, we had known how to deal with change--and win! Some years ago, our family moved over five thousand miles to a place with a different culture. A few months after the boys began at a new school, their teachers marveled at how well they had adapted. They had grown up on the story of Who Moved My Cheese? and saw that change could be fun and that it could bring them something better. This story really can help kids change and win! Your family may be experiencing many different kinds of change. But whatever it is, we hope your children will enjoy this kids' edition of the story, which has been created especially for them, and that you will all find your own New Cheese--and enjoy it!

About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0399240160
• ISBN 13: 9780399240164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Pileggi Steve