Review
I read A LOT of kids books and only about 2% of them are worth talking about. The truth is that 98% are average and forgetable with 1% being exceptional and yep, you guessed it, the remaining 1% being really really awful.
I'm usually a BIG Rosemary Wells fan. I love 'Max and Ruby' and we just read another Rosemary Wells book this week that was very good - 'Yoko's Paper Cranes'. And when I saw the cover and title of this book I thought 'Great - a good a book about being tidy.' Um, not so much! I seriously wonder what on earth she was thinking with this one.
The story is convoluted, weird and boring as heck. The 'protagonist' of this story is a selfish little $#!@ for the first half of the book - pissing off his mom, dad and sister along the way. Then through some bizarre series of events he accidentally creates a 'mess fairy' through a science project that he screwed up and put off to the last minute. Are you still with me? The mess fairy, by being a selfish little $#!@ herself, makes him realize what a little $#!@ he's been to his family and he has a miraculous and ridiculously unrealistic transformation at the end of the book.
I'm usually a BIG Rosemary Wells fan. I love 'Max and Ruby' and we just read another Rosemary Wells book this week that was very good - 'Yoko's Paper Cranes'. And when I saw the cover and title of this book I thought 'Great - a good a book about being tidy.' Um, not so much! I seriously wonder what on earth she was thinking with this one.
The story is convoluted, weird and boring as heck. The 'protagonist' of this story is a selfish little $#!@ for the first half of the book - pissing off his mom, dad and sister along the way. Then through some bizarre series of events he accidentally creates a 'mess fairy' through a science project that he screwed up and put off to the last minute. Are you still with me? The mess fairy, by being a selfish little $#!@ herself, makes him realize what a little $#!@ he's been to his family and he has a miraculous and ridiculously unrealistic transformation at the end of the book.
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