READERS REPORT FROM ATHENA PRESS

 

This is a lovely project book, somewhere in the crossover land for young and slightly older children's writing.

Pauline Hadley has made something memorable, that will show its young audience how the creative writer can present the wonder, the magic and the mystery of the natural creation, and how the young reader can share in this work. The melodious writing has its own effective momentum which gives the whole book its special quality.

This is fresh and original writing for youngsters, of a quality that we see too infrequently. It is about the beauty and wonder of nature. The lively attractive concepts lend themselves well to illustrative ideas as we can see.

The language is good, intelligent and does not "dumb down" to its audience. The text is clear and straightforward, but, if you look at it closely, it has quite complex verbal ideas and structures; this story will help bring on young readers, and this is what children's books should do. They should engage the young mind, and if that reader can learn to eventually appreciate and understand both reading and nature, and the world about us, that is the best result; everyone begins somewhere.

This writing is lyrical and poetic.

 Editor-In-Chief Athena Press

 

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