Review: Good Story Idea but Awkward Writing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2013
The illustrations in this book are beautiful and the overall story idea is a good one. The idea of encouraging kids to reach for their dreams even though they are small and may not know how they can achieve them is wonderful.The writing however is where this book struggles. I think all children's authors should be required to read their material out loud to hear how it flows. This book has very awkward sentence structure and odd phrasing that trips me up every time I try to read it to my daughter. I stumble over commas that don't seem to be used appropriately and over sentences that either seem incomplete or like too many ideas have been squished together.I'm really glad that I grabbed this one while it was free because I cannot see paying 2.99 for this title.