Review: Short & Sweet Bedtime Stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2014
Having spent many years reading bedtime stories when my daughters were young, I think I know what will hold a child's interest. These little stories are cute and fun, and the accompanying drawings are quite well done. I read the book using the Kindle reader on my laptop, as I thought that an adult reading to a child would use either an IPad, a laptop or Kindle Fire. I didn't even try to read it on my Kindle Keyboard as I knew the drawings wouldn't display well. However, on the laptop the pagination and page layout was odd. Page breaks appeared to be in the wrong places, and the drawings were too small and ill-placed on the pages. I'm not sure if this is something the author can control, given the plethora of Kindle readers for various devices.In addition to the formatting issues, I felt that some of the words were just too mature for a toddler - such as persuade, interrupted, embarrassed, swiftness, viciously, approached, and sincerity, to name a few. While I don't believe in "baby talking" to little ones, if there are too many unfamiliar words in a book, you quickly lose their interest.I liked the fact that the stories are short. Bedtime reading was always somewhat of a negotiation in our household. If they chose a long book, we would have to agree in advance where to stop. With the short stories in "Two Little Ducklings", you can easily find a stopping place.