Review: fun idea.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2013
This book should make children laugh, and that after all, is the point. I don't tend to take myself too seriously, so the subject matter didn't bother me in the slightest. The illustrations were fun and helped me engage with the words, so I enjoyed that.What keeps me from giving it more stars has to do with its structure. In a rhymed book, I prefer some sort of structure or meter to the lines. Particularly for a children's book where the feel of the lines is also a part of the engagement. Some of the rhymes seemed a bit forced, but not so much that it kills it for you. There were some grammatical issues as well (most obviously missing words). I'm not sure why there are "chapter" titles either. They didn't seem terribly necessary as it is a singular story running throughout, and each "chapter" is only a few lines long.As I said in the beginning, this will make children laugh, and although I am not a huge fan of the writing style in the book, I'll take the sound of a child's laughter any day.