Review: Brilliant Illustrations, Great to See a Kindle Picture Book Formatted Correctly For Portable Device Screens
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 28, 2013
Humpfree: The  Humpless Camel is formatted correctly to be enjoyed to it's full potential on the Kindle Fire HD. It has brilliant colourful clear illustrations, created by artist Young-Min Yoon, so the decision to take the time to format this book correctly, allows you to appreciate these pages to their fullest extent.  Each page takes up the entire screen when your Kindle Fire is in landscape mode. The text is part of the illustrations so it all appears on the same page. Although this should be the standard for a picture book being offered for sale, more than often this is not the case. Unfortunately most picture Kindle books aren't formatted properly, so I always like to give accolades to the authors who care enough about their work to bother to take the time to ensure their readers' reading experience is what it should be.Julie Dweck hasn't written a bad tale to accompany those brilliant illustrations either.  Basically a camel has body issue problems which are negatively affecting his self esteem.  You see he is flat backed. Humpfree decides to create a set of fake humps, starting with two helium filled balloons he comes across.  Of course they don't work out so Humpfree's going to have to come up with some other options.  Will he find an option that makes him happy or will happiness come to him some other way?  In addition to the story itself are also a couple of pages of facts of camels, which also debunk a few myths such as camels store water in their humps.