ID #115216 |
Amazon's Price: $ 1.99
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Summary of this Book... | ||
This is the story of a fox who steals a piglets carrots from the garden. The title bills it as a "story of friendship" which I assumed meant the piglet and the Fosse's would form an unlikely friendship. But it didn't. Instead, the piglet made a trap that looked like a mouse trap and filled it up with an apple and waited for the fox to strike. Which, I think, it did. But then it was banished to the forest. The friendship aspect, I guess, was the many woodland animals who helped the piglet to make trap for the fox. But there was nothing really made of friendship, except in the title. | ||
This type of Book is good for... | ||
I'm struggling with this. Its content is aimed at 1-6 year olds, but I wonder whether it might be a bit too frightening for that. At the same time, it would be too dull for children any older than this. | ||
I especially liked... | ||
The idea. It could have been a great lesson in friendship and honesty. | ||
I didn't like... | ||
The whole book felt a bit amateur. For example, all the words are written in capitals until about 2/3 of the way through when a page has normal upper and lower case letters. This irritated me, and I don't know why this happened. Maybe it was down to the translation to Kindle. | ||
This Book made me feel... | ||
Irritated. Bored. Confused. | ||
The n/a of this Book... | ||
Imerio Spia | ||
I don't recommend this Book because... | ||
There are better ones out there that teach the same values. | ||
Further Comments... | ||
I read this on Kindle Unlimited because it was free. The illustrations in this book are quite basic, a little old-fashioned. Some of them, like on the page where the piglet and the fox face-off, would be quite frightening for a young child. I would worry it might give a small child nightmares. I appreciate this is a book for young children (ages 1-6), but nothing really happens. Perhaps, this is because the author wants children to 'learn about honestly and friendship through illustrations." So it's more of a fable. But I can't see where this teaching actually is. And if the illustrations are the key to teaching, all they show is anger, fear and a little party when the piglet wins. | ||
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Created Feb 27, 2024 at 6:08am •
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