Review: A Dog Lover's Christmas
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2012
This book is designed that the left portion of the page tells which day of Christmas it is.  The day is written in a large colorful font.  There is also a picture of that day's items.  Below the picture is a list of the previous days' items.  On the right side of the page is a depiction of the entire list up to that point.All of the drawings are detailed and original in style with all of the "items" being unique.  This is not a cut and paste book.  The writing itself for the most part matches the original song.  However, trying to sing this version to the original tune becomes impossible with 2, 3, and 4.  In the original 2 has 4 syllables, 3 has 3 syllables and 4 has 4 syllables.  In this version 2 has 6 syllables, 3 has 4 syllables and 4 has 5 syllables. Since most people aren't buying this book to sing, but to see, this shouldn't be a major problem.I would have loved to have given this a 4.  The reason it didn't get a 4 was due to formatting issues.  I looked on this both the Cloud Reader and the Kindle app on my 17" monitor.  There was a major difference, with the Cloud Reader being better, as long as I gave sufficient time for the entire book to load. Otherwise it would take about 30 seconds for each page to load.  The problem on the app version was that it showed two days at a time stacked on each other.  While reading the left portion was OK, the right side become too compressed to see details on the later days. Should the formatting problems be fixed, I would gladly change my rating.