Review: Uses the Same Images Found In a Number of Selfpublished Authors Books
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
Pupchi the Smart Dog uses the same images a number of other self-published children's author books do. I downloaded this and a book by another author called Smart Buddy and read them back to back and they are pretty much exactly the same, illustration wise, using whatever ClipArt or whatever their image library source is, for a dog pretending to be a human images, (or even simply a Google Image search maybe). That's the problem with not bothering to do (or ask someone else to do) the images for you, everyone else uses them in their books too.The written content though that accompanied those images was way better in this book though than the other one.  This one at least has some sort of storyline to go those pictures.  Basically a dog is talking to the reader and comparing (well asking why we do) things differently to it, such use a toilet rather than go outside.  In some cases they are trying to fit an image into the tale and it comes across a bit odd such as the picture of a dog with a knife in its mouth and a butterfly net in a paw.  One that page the text is "Outside you can play with butterflies and other beautiful creatures."  So you're thinking, but why would you need the knife? So on the next page we just have the dog laughing and the text "And you do not really need a knife or uniforms! I just play with them and let them fly away.