Review: Dreadful story, definitely not something I want to read to my children
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 16, 2012
The book description above is the text from the first couple pages. It continues: "Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he was afraid that everyone will find out that his youngest daughter is the ugliest of all and that she might even frighten off her sisters' suitors and then none of his daughter will ever marry."  He then banishes Uglynette (yes, really!) to work in the fields, forbidding her to tell anyone who she is.  There are also the charming additions of a mean Turk who doesn't have enough princesses in his harem, and threatens to behead all the king's subjects. Of course it eventually has a happily ever after ending, and the lesson that "the beauty is in the eye of the beholder" but I absolutely would never read this to a child.Clearly the author's first language is not English, evidenced by some odd verb usage and idioms (two references to getting your fingers burnt?}.  There are also a few misspellings scattered throughout the story, and the odd mix of colors/fonts makes it difficult to read at times.  Finally, the drawings are very amateurish, and there are really only a few (flipped, zoomed, etc. to fit the various scenes)