Review: It's not the worst ever
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2012
I will start out by listing the good qualities. First of all, this book is colorful and the illustrations are pretty simple. The story does rhyme...kinda. I thought the premise for the book, of a little girl being afraid of what she will find on her first day of school and then being relieved when she figures out it isn't so scary was pretty good. A lot of kids face that before their first day of school and I could see how they would relate to a character in a book going through it as well. The book is not terribly long and could keep a child entertained for a brief while.Now the not so good: I thought on some pages Katie sue was a kind of cute...manga-ish looking character. On other pages she looked like she was jumping out with the intention of eating my child. My two-year-old boys were actually a bit afraid of her in a couple of places. The rhyming feels like the author took any word they could think of and used it to force a rhyme where it didn't make sense. Here is an example. "But best of all two friends I made. We had lunch together then the swings we played." That made it sound to me like Yoda was the one speaking. I'm sorry but I think this book needs a little restructuring. Not the worst, but not the best.