Review: Cute but not so great.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
The fox and the grapes is a cute book. I love the illustrations, they are just adorable.However, it really fell short from what I expected. Especially since it is Kite Readers.The cover, gorgeous illustration, leads you to believe the book has a happy ending right? Right, well, you would be wrong.Anyone else but me thinking WHAT!?!Who ends a book with a character going away sad and ashamed with the rest of the characters laughing at him? Great book for kids.. not.If your child is sensitive to things like this and prone to feel bad for the animal that's left out this is not the book for that child. Unless maybe you want to encourage them to write another story that helps cheer up the animal left out and hopefully themselves.Even still, I would suggest another book, before that.The book started of okay, the story was good, and again the pictures were great. Bright, colourful and cheery even.It's a shame it ends so badly.I'm giving it two stars for the illustrations. As much as we like the illustrations, this is one we won't be reading again.