Review: Cute and Colourful with a So-So Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2013
Princess Sassy Pants Learns to Dance has a couple of things going for it:1) The title. What an awesome name - "Princess Sassy Pants!" It's fun, it's spunky...it's funky.2) The colours. SugarSnail always does colourful illustrations. While the illustration style isn't super-artistic, it is colourful and lively, and the shading gives it even more life.That's what it has going for it. Here is what it has against it:1) Even though this story is in rhyme (always a big plus in a children's story), the rhyme is no better than average. The metre is inconsistent and sometimes clumsy.2) The story itself is lacking: girl sees sassy cat, girl gets cat, girl teaches cat to dance and puts on a show, girl and cat sleep. There is no twist to the story, no significant development to it, and nothing you can really take away once you've put it down. The story isn't *bad* or anything; it just isn't good. While using the word "sassy" gives the story a bit of spunk, as do a couple of the lines in the story, I found the story itself rather bland and empty.Again, not bad, but not really good, either.While the title and the colours are great, those aren't enough to carry a so-so story with so-so rhymes. And so I find myself forced to give Princess Sassy Pants Learns to Dance a so-so rating: 3 stars.(If you want a bit more meat in a story, you might want to consider Lily Lexington or Michael Yu. If you want even more meat and stronger rhymes, but no colourful illustrations, you might want to consider Mr. Meus. If it's just colourful pink illustrations you're looking for, SugarSnail has illustrated another story or two with similar pinks. And Michael Yu has a couple of very colourful books.)Note: If the book is free when you read this review, download it; it's certainly worth getting for free. But I would hesitate to pay much money for it, if you're looking for a strong story with strong rhyme.