Whos Afraid Of The Big Bad Book

Published 2012 by Hachette Children's Books.

ISBN:
978-1-4083-0772-4
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3 stars (1 review)

Now if you were going to fall into a book, a book of fairy tales would probably not be your first choice. Because in every story there is always a wicked this, an evil that or a hungry somebody. It could only happen to Herb, child star of that thrilling tale, Beware of the Storybook Wolves.

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Concept is cute, but it's frustrating.

3 stars

I like the idea of a boy getting trapped in a book that he's cut up, altered, and flipped around. It's quite fun to see him have to deal with the repercussions to the story that his meddling has created, and I really like that as a story.

But I hate how hard it is to read the book, especially as a dyslexic person. There are cursive fonts that are incredibly difficult for me (and definitely hard to recognise for young language learners), sometimes words are suddenly written backwards, other scenes have them upside down (for good affect, but it gets old after the first page). It's just... so badly handled?

Like, the story is cute and something fun for kids to think about and imagine, but this book is just so unnecessarily difficult to read.