Review: Brilliant Colourful Illustrations and Formatted Correctly to Take Up the Whole Kindle Fire HD Screen
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2013
It's a shame that you've got to point out when a picture book is formatted correctly to take up the whole screen, but unfortunately the majority of authors can't be bothered to do so in these early days of Kindle books.  But Michael Yu with Jack and the Dragon has done so, making the brilliant detailed cartoon style illustrations stand out in their full colour, allowing you to read the text while the image is on the same page (the pages display in landscape mode) for those being read to, to see while you read. Also by formatting it correctly if you've got visual problems and need the text bigger you can just double touch it fast with your finger and the text gets bigger, although most readers will be able to read the text fine since it stands out clearly on each page.I'd say visually this would be Michael Yu's best book.  The story is good, although a little bit of a retelling of the old Androcles, the lion and the thorn in its paw tale, it is done well, this time around with a dragon, plus this story is padded out with original material too.