Review: Conversation Starter with Kids across Generations
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2012
I enjoyed this nostalgic romp through a garage cluttered with things kids today might not know ever existed: Rock'em Sock'em Robots (made me want to go into my cluttered garage and find ours!), a Polaroid "Instant" Camera, typewriter, a set of encyclopedias, and a square Walkman for cassette tapes (I can hear the kids now, "What's a cassette tape?" Answer: Sort of like an 8-Track Player only smaller.) I took delight in all the things kids under 12 would find novel in our quickly changing world. The conversation between the child and grandparent brought understanding of the value of a gift that isn't the "latest" but may be the greatest. I see this book being a great conversation starter between parents and kids or grandparents and today's kids. It's good enough to make me think about going through the boxes in my garage.My only slight complaint is that the pages of text were images that were not navigable by my Kindle eReader (more like a picture of the page with words included in the picture) without a flowing river of words that I could highlight or note. I have become reliant on those features on my Kindle and found myself wanting to highlight things and write things on the pages, but without a way to do so.Connie Neal, author of many books found at [...]