Review: Formatted Properly, A Lesson That Friends Don't Have to Be All From Your Own Kind
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2013
Dragon Makes New Friends is formatted correctly to be enjoyed to it's full potential on the Kindle Fire HD. Each page takes up the entire screen when your Kindle Fire is in landscape mode. The text, which if you press on with your finger enlarges if you need it to, is part of the illustrations so it all appears on the same page. Although this should be the standard for a picture book being allowed to be offered for sale, here on Amazon, this more than often is not the case. Unfortunately most picture Kindle books aren't formatted properly, so I always like to give accolades to the authors who care enough about their work to bother to take the time to ensure their readers' reading experience is what it should be.Dragon Makes New Friends is a good tool to for librarians, teachers, relatives or whoever to teach children (possibly who are influenced by having to live in racist or other bigot filled households), that people (although the different one, is represented by a dragon in this book), who are different in appearance can be friends, have a great time and help each other with their problems, thereby enhancing each other lives.  The basic plot of this book revolves around a young dragon who is afraid to approach a group of kids in the forest and ask to play with them, due to being rejected by them fearing his appearance.  But one day a lone child is having difficulty so he steps in and helps.  The two become friends, but a bigoted blonde girl immediately tells the boy off for being friends with the dragon and that she can provide any of the friendship benefits the dragon is giving to the boy. Of course her bigotry will backfire on her.The illustrations are fairly good, although not at the same heights of some of Michael Yu's other books.