Review: Well Formatted for the Kindle Fire's Screen Fun Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2013
It's a rare event these days to come across a picture book that is not just well written and nicely illustrated but is actually formatted correctly to take up the whole screen of the Kindle Fire HD.  This one appears in portrait mode with the text being on top of part of the illustration on each page.  The text rhymes and is basically the story of a shark who likes to eat fish but isn't opposed to candy, even though he knows sharks don't eat it. Obviously a shark wouldn't care about something wrong with it's tooth in real life with a lot of rows ready to replace any unwanted tooth, it would also eat animals such as sea lions, one of which it gets advice from in this tale, but this is more of an entertain kids book than a lesson on marine life or even proper dental hygiene, although it does do things like tell kids to brush their teeth.  Using marine animals is probably a good way to introduce the subject for wider discussion or remind kids on brushing their teeth than using humans would have been.  Doing it this way also paints the dentist as a less scary environment than using humans too.Cedric the Shark Gets Toothache is an entertaining story that I wouldn't be surprised if one day got picked up by a physical copy publisher and is highly successful.