by Frank Cammuso
Rating: 4.5 of 5 starsMy Review:
I started out making my almost-second-grader read this book out loud to me, but eventually he liked it enough that he was reading it on his own. In fact, he's now working on reading it a second or third time on his own – in just 2 weeks of having the book. My son's a pretty reluctant reader, but he has a high reading vocabulary for a 1st grader, so I'm really happy that he likes this book and is willing to pick it up and read without me even suggesting it.
My son laughs out loud throughout the whole book. He loves the faces that Salem makes, he loves what the characters say to each other, and it seems he really gets what's going on. Word choice seems to be pretty good. Not too many big words that my son couldn't figure out on his own.
My one concern would be: with the font style, some of the 'i's are hard to see, so my son misses some of the words if he has to sound them out and isn't sure of the vocabulary. Something like “seriously”, is hard for him because the 'i' looked a little hidden and he hasn't read that word very often yet. I'm not sure if he had trouble with any other words, but he seemed to get most of the story.
In the end, 4.5 stars for this book. It got my son reading more without being forced, it works well on the iPad, and it was a cute, fun story. My son is pretty serious, so for him to be laughing multiple times while reading, it has to be pretty good.
I received this book as an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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