A Kid's View

A Kid’s View: Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll

February 12, 2012 by Jia Li 5 Comments

Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll, Vol. 1 | By Yumi Tsukirino | VIZ Media | Rated All-Ages

Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll is about these puppies who go on adventures and help each other out. Cinnamoroll has big, fluffy ears that help him fly. He uses these ears to help people and get things from tall places.

I did not like the part when they had to go into the basement and the puppies were scaring each other. I thought there was a real ghost and something bad was about to happen. I also didn’t like that sometimes they don’t tell you what happens to the puppies at the end. I liked Cinnamoroll and Milk the best because Cinnamoroll helped the puppies out numerous times and I like Milk because he is so cute.

It wasn’t a really funny book. I just wanted to know what came next in the book. I longed to know what happened.

Some of the names were hard to pronounce, but there wasn’t anything I didn’t understand.

I liked this book. I would recommend it to first through fifth graders.

A Kid’s View: Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1

April 6, 2011 by Jia Li 6 Comments

Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1 | By Kiyohiko Azuma | Published by Yen Press – This book is about a little girl and her dad. They have just moved to a new place in Japan. The little girl meets her neighbors, loves to shop, and gets into a lot of trouble.

I liked Yotsuba&!. My favorite part about this book is when Yotsuba, one of her neighbors and Jumbo go cicada-catching. I didn’t like when Yotsuba lets all the bugs go and they get all over her neighbor’s house. One of the neighbors sprays the bugs and the bugs aren’t strong anymore. The bugs were very sad and weak and did not like it.

My favorite characters were Yotsuba and Ena. Both characters were really fun. Yotsuba and I are both little girls and we both like shopping. Ena reminds me of my older sister so I could relate to both characters.

The book was pretty funny. The funniest part was when the bathroom lock gets broken and the people who climb out the window get stuck.

There was nothing I did not understand except for the “&!” at the end of the title. What is that? I did not like it when the people in the book were excited and the illustration made them look really mad and yelling loudly. If I was just looking at the pictures and not reading the story I would think the people in the book were really mean.

I liked the book a lot so I would recommend this book to little girls like me!

A Kid’s View: Beauty and the Squat Bears

March 30, 2011 by Jia Li 7 Comments

Jia Li is in second grade and enjoys ballet, singing, and jumping on her trampoline. Her favorite subject in school is science and she also enjoys playing the piano and violin. She would like to grow up to be a veterinarian, a teacher or a star. This is her first book review.

Beauty and the Squat Bears | By Émile Bravo | Published by Yen Press – There is a princess named Snow White who is getting chased by her step mother because Snow White is the prettiest princess in the world and the stepmother would like to be the prettiest. Snow White finds a house in the woods but it is the house of seven bears. The bears come home and Snow White begs them to stay. They ask her if she will do chores but she says she does not do chores and that princesses are supposed to marry a prince. So the bears have a talk, and one of the bears goes out to find her a prince.

The bear goes walking in the woods and comes across a blue bird who claims to be a prince. The bear agrees to take the bird with him to see the fairy godmother to change him back into a prince. The bear then sees a castle and goes in to look for a prince. He finds one, and that prince agrees to come with him as well. As the bear is in the castle, the bird changes back into a prince. So now the bear has two princes fighting over the princess.

While the three are on the way to see the princess they come across another character who claims to be a prince but looks like a monster. As the bear and three princes are talking, an old woman comes out of the wood. They tell her she’s too ugly to kiss the monster to turn him back into a prince when suddenly the old lady goes *poof* and becomes the fairy godmother. The monster grabs a kiss from the fairy godmother and turns back into a prince. The fairy godmother gets angry and a very bad thing happens. In the end, the bear comes home empty handed, Snow White has to do chores, and the stepmother gets her wish.

I liked the story and it is very funny. I like princesses and fairy godmothers, and the bears are very cute and say funny things. The funniest part was when the bear walks into the ball, Cinderella’s clothes turn back into rags in front of the prince, and then he walks out with the squat bear. I did not like the sad ending. I also did not think that it should have ended there. I would have liked there to be more to the story.

There were some things I did not understand because it was a kids’ book but had some things written for adults. There were a couple of words that I could not read, and I did not understand some of the big words like “bewitched” and “conferred”.

I liked the detail of the artwork, especially the dresses. I did not like some of the bears’ expressions. They seemed strange to me.

I really liked this book. I would recommend this book to kids who like princes and princesses and tiny, cute bears but who also can read big words.

Review copy provided by the publisher. For a grownup look at Beauty and the Squat Bears, check out Kate’s review here.