Review: Wonderful Time Travel! Transportation Cost: FREE
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2012
I can see his grandmother now...sitting at the window with her coffee in one hand and rokok daun in the other...a sip here, a pull and puff there as she watched the world go by.Written like a beloved friends recount on a Sunday afternoon under the shade, you get the sense that you're sitting with a good friend sharing old stories and forget that you're actually reading a book.The story takes on the historical points of Malaysia through the perspective of an eight year old super hero. As Azizi weaves in accounts of his country you really grasp the sense that it's all about perspective in life. On the one hand the newspaper is recounting the almost bleak situations during the 1960's while the young boy shows you his life surrounded by adults who took pride in their work and always seemed happy.You get very familiar with the way Malaysia was back in the early 60's and moving forward. The author just makes it really easy to absorb as he weaves funny parallel accounts of his own life into it. It's like a; what happened on this day kind of account without the monotony.Azizi lets you step into the wonderful world of a child's imagination which he slipped into many times to cope with the daily turns of life. What is intriguing is the fact that the story teller who lives almost 12,000 miles away from my Caribbean home land could have been telling my story...in fact many Caribbean kids stories.The joy of being introduced to television after countless years of retiring at sunset was to be considered the highlight of one's life. And though they were practically in Japan's door and didn't take much advantage of their movies; we thrived on karate movies. Not a lick of words we understood but boy did we learn how to make those sounds and kick our legs soon after the movie was over.Jebe the Super Morpher is truly a down to earth and super relatable story. You'll find yourself laughing at the similarities of childhood and realize that this inexorable spirit has no boundaries or ends.As the story is written so naturally your mind is transported to the verandah, on grandmother's steps and along the long dirt roads to the paddy fields. You get to feel the excitement of many firsts as you too become the Super Morpher.