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One Star Review Guess Who? (#10)

August 3, 2013 by

Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on GoodReads or Amazon?

This started out cute, but after the sixty-first figure of speech I couldn’t take it anymore. It’s as if a fourth grade teacher went on an acid trip and started spouting nonsense.

I’m sure if I’d read this book when I was eight I would’ve loved it. Now I’m twenty-eight and I couldn’t stand the tedium.

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

Comments

  1. Lisa Jenn says:
    August 3, 2013 at 9:47 am

    This is exactly how I felt trying to read this book. Except I was in middle school at the time.

  2. Dawn says:
    August 5, 2013 at 1:02 pm

    Great post! I use a lot of websites as reviews – but have also learned you have to be careful too. You can’t believe everything you read. This post shows that so well!

  3. Sondy says:
    August 6, 2013 at 12:24 pm

    Didn’t see that one coming at all! So loved this book as a kid. And as an adult. Goes to show no book is loved by every single person.

  4. Sara M Schepis says:
    July 11, 2016 at 10:30 am

    Oh, no! This is my favorite children’s book OF ALL TIME! It hurts my librarian soul to see it trashed.