Review: Son loved it. Me? Not so much.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2013
I didn't like this book as much as my 6-year-old. It is not formatted well for Kindle, though I think that those issues may resolve themselves in print. Many of the words are too long for a first grader and I did have to stop and explain what some words meant. I found some of the rhymes ill-contrived ("lint" and "footprints", "insist" and "this", "unexplained" and "again", etc., don't rhyme). There is no set cadence to any of the vignettes and very little punctuation (many lines end in semicolons) to help the rhymes flow. My son--the target audience--loved the book and the illustrations (which were a bit childish), though, and we will keep the book on the Kindle since he can read it on his own. I definitely will not be reading the book to him again.My son's review is: The book is about monsters. I loved the book because I like the monsters. My favorite monster was the spaghetti one!