I am a sucker for free Kindle books on Amazon. This book, however, in my opinion, would be painful. Seuss is just good laugh out loud fun, I'll even concede that Harry Potter seems like the read with children sort, even if it's not my personal cuppa. There are brilliant books for this activity - The Hobbit, The Marvelous Land of Oz books, Dr. One of the most important things I look for in a children's book is whether I would enjoy reading it aloud to a child. The story's potential (and it wasn't a bad story,) was suffocated under this apparent assumption that the target reader would be a moderately dull-witted six year old, which is a shame. The entire time I was reading this, I felt like a Stepford mom was leaning over my shoulder reading, "and then, THIS happened, and then THIS happened, and THEN do you KNOW what that means little girl? Well, I will just have to tell you! Wheeee!" Why is it that some adults can write for children, and create a whole new world for the child to get lost in wonder, and others write as if "child" is synonymous with "stupid?"
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