Review: Events Jump Around a Bit, Seems to Focus More on Finding Scenarios to Rhyme
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
Jay Goes Camping is the second book with the dragon character (Jay), the first was Jay Goes to New York City.  Jay isn't a medieval dragon or anything like that, he's pretty much just a regular kid, drawn as a dragon instead of a human, but all the other characters are human.  You don't need to have read Jay Goes to New York City as the storylines aren't linked at all.  Like with that book, Jay Goes Camping has not only been illustrated with well drawn colourful images, but the book has been formatted correctly to take up the entire screen of your portable reading device.  It displays only in landscape mode.  The text is part of the illustration so everything shows on the screen like it would a physical picture book.  Unfortunately this isn't a common occurrence with Kindle authors of picture books, so it's worth praising when you come across it.For me though the storyline of this one was a lot weaker than the first Jay adventure, and most of Michael Yu's other books.  This camping/wilderness discovery tale's plot jumps from one thing on one page, to a completely different thing, without really wrapping up what was going on a lot of the time.  The book rhymes and maybe that's the problem, it seems more interested in providing a word or scenario that rhymes then telling a good story.The high standard illustrations and fact it is well formatted though do lift this story to a recommend you check it out level, it just isn't one of Michael Yu's best.