Review: Has Some Nice Pictures But Story is Nothing Special or Original
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
The age old tale of a creature tormenting a village because something is bothering it and no one bothers to consult with it until one day a stranger comes to the village and decides to confront "the beast" and finds out it's really a nice misunderstood creature who just needed help, has been redone this time using a boy and a dragon.  Other than insert dragon here, insert boy knight here, insert hot bowl of soup to be pulled out of the pocket in the saddle (how is this even possible in an era before the invention of the thermos and ready to eat in a bowl too) into the old tale.  Possibly if the child you are reading this to hasn't heard of the lion and the thorn or other similar stories they may get something more out of the text.Lifting the average storyline and overall rating are the illustration which are quite colourful and well drawn.  However the book is poorly formatted for the Kindle device only taking up the top half of the screen in portrait mode.  The Yu family of authors know how to format a picture book properly, they've done it with other titles,There Are Monsters In My Roomfor one, but just haven't bothered to with this one.  It's a shame as the illustrations are good enough to deserve a whole screen appearance.My advice would be to get one of the other books by this family of authors instead of this one.