The Adventure Begins (Animals of Farthing Wood) [Paperback]

Mary Risk (Author), The County Studio (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Buzz Books (January 14, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1855912791
• ISBN-13: 978-1855912793
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,121,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not For Children Or Anyone Else, August 22, 2010

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Ariane Newell (Orem, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Adventure Begins (Animals of Farthing Wood) (Paperback)

I love British literature for children especially about animal life so I was really looking forward to finding a new author. I won't be reading this author again. Simplistic and moralistic, no interesting real nature facts distinguishing the characters. A plot one could predict completely from the first page. It seems to be a story written from a hastily made cartoon that was slapped together without any thought of real nature or any thought to what makes a good story. I am fine about personifying animals if the characters are appealing and believable. This wasn't. I am a storyteller at my local library and I knew the children there wouldn't stand for it for a minute. So it promptly went into the Library Donation sack where I'm sure it will be sold to some other sucker. No librarian in their right mind would pull it out as a desired book for their shelves.