Review: Great illustrations, but missing the Agent!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2011
Secret Agent Josephine's ABC's is an illustrated children's alphabet book where the letter is in a very large, colored font with a picture an item beginnging with that letter (e.g., A is for apple.) Below the image is a short sentence in a small font with the description (A is for apple, etc.) The background color choice is a little unusual - like a light beige with a lighter starburst effect in the center to set off the illustration. The animal illustrations are simplistic but adorable, and being simple they don't distract from the lesson at hand (the letter.)So why not 5 stars? My biggest complaint is the lack of Secret Agent Josephine - she appears on the cover and not on the letter pages, so I felt (and I think a child might feel) misled. You can't have an exciting name like Secret Agent Josephine and not include her*! The text describing the letter's image is very small compared to the letter's illustration, and could be in a simpler font, or at least made larger and bolder to attract a child's interest.Rating: 3 - 3.5 starsReview copy supplied by the author as part of LibraryThing's Member Giveaway program.* A neighbor's young daughter wondered where she was when I showed this to her, making me feel vindicated.