Review: Cute, Simple Stories, Good for a Read-Aloud
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
This is a nice collection of children's stories. The illustrations are beautiful and nicely spaced. There's a fair amount of text per chapter, yet each story has 5-7 chapters so you feel things are moving along at a good pace. The dialogue could use some fixing, but I chalk some of the semi-awkwardness up to it being a translated work. I don't get a sense of the little ducklings character voices, but in a story of this size I don't think that's a huge deal.The author states that she specifically tried for non-scary children's tales, so in that case, mission accomplished. A bit more danger and adventure might have improved it slightly, but what you get is still pretty good.