Review: Nicely Illustrated Story and Importantly Formatted Correctly to Take Up the Entire Screen
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2013
Michael Yu has once again taken the time to format his picture book properly to enjoy the colourful fun illustrations on a portable reading device such as the Kindle Fire HD to their full extent and also so text appears on the same page. You shouldn't really need to mention correct formatting, when you buy a Kindle picture book, it should be standard to be listed on Amazon, but unfortunately it's actually the minority of authors bothering to do so, (even Mr Yu hasn't done so with all his picture books), so I always take the time to give the authors who do praise in my reviews. The text is part of the illustration so everything displays on the one page as it should.  The text can also be clicked on to make it larger.  The book appears in landscape mode on your device.Jay Goes to New York is different to the subject matter of most of Michael Yu's other work.  Although it does again have a dragon, this one is not your medieval type dragon, the book is set in the modern day and also isn't a child imagination fantasy like a lot of his other books are.  Basic plot involves a dragon flying from Bombay (so there's airport and passenger on a plane pages) to New York City for a holiday.  He's rather over excited and annoys the humans with his antics and gets upset when they aren't impressed.  But one little girl decides to be his friend and guide him on not just what to see in NY, but how to do so an not upset those around him.I quite liked this tale, and hope to see the character of Jay return for other adventures.  The illustrations are cartoony in style and quite colourful.