Monday, Wednesday, and Every Other Weekend

by Karen Stanton

Hardcover, 2014

Status

Available

Call number

306.89

Collections

Family Unit, Children's Books, Flint/ Genesee

Publication

Feiwel & Friends (2014), Edition: Illustrated, 40 pages

Description

Although Henry enjoys the time he spends at his mother's apartment and his father's house, his dog Pomegranate gets confused about which place is home.

User reviews

LibraryThing member kjacks26

I thought this was a good book. The pictures were very busy, and fun to look at. There was no white space left on any page, and drawings that you could draw with a simple square or rectangle had designs drawn in them. Some of the drawings are even made to look like they are made out of newspaper

and the text on the newspaper is written in Spanish. I liked how the author showed Henry’s Mama and Papa working together even though they did not live together any more. This shows that despite their differences, they can work together to help their son in time of need. For example, “Papa and I run to East Flower Street and call his name up and down the stairs with Mama.” The central message of this book is that even when parents get divorced, they never stop loving their children.

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LibraryThing member CassandraQuigley

I really enjoyed this book. I loved that the author used dog instead of the child as the one who missed “home,” because him and his owner were now spilt between two homes. I thought this was great, because it was connectable to me as a reader even though my parents are not spilt up. I also

liked this book, because the images depict multicultural children, and families, which makes the book even more connectable. I also liked that the images were bright and colorful, just like the words on the page. Such as when the author wrote, “every other Sunday night, I eat Papa’s perfect pepperoni pizza in his tomato-red kitchen,” and the image depicts a bright red kitchen.
The main message of this story is that two homes can be the same as one.

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LibraryThing member melodyreads

In this, it is the dog who is sad. Nicely done.

LibraryThing member lmalak1

I enjoyed this book a lot. One reason I liked this book was because of the 'climax' in the book. Both of the parents join together, even though they're divorced, to help look for Henry's dog, Pomegranate. That is an excellent message to send to not just the children readers, but also their parents.

Behavior like this can help smooth over the idea of a divorce.
Another reason I liked this book was how the typical feelings of the child were projected onto the dog. Rather than the boy harboring all these emotions about missing home, the dog is the one who expresses missing digging in the yard. I thought this was a clever and subtle way to include those types of feelings.
The main idea of this book is that home is where the heart is.

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LibraryThing member pataustin

With a very clever twist on a divorce narrative, Stanton shows just what Henry Cooper's life is like when Mondays, Wednesdays and every other weekend he and his dog Pomegranate live with his mom, and Tuesdays, Thursdays, and every other weekend, he and Pomegranate live with his dad. Henry copes

well; sometimes Pomegranate gets confused about which house is home and one day takes off --- to the old house that the entire family used to call home. Giving the confused feelings to the dog rather than the boy was a stroke of genius. Kids, especially those caught up in this same two-house scenario will relate completely. Shared alongside Masurel's Two Homes, which is equally positive but simpler, a child can compare the books and see how two authors vary plot details but ultimately tell the same story.

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LibraryThing member Sullywriter

Young boy and his dog goes back and forth to the homes of his divorced parents.

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