Customer Reviews

The Blurting Beetles of Baloogo Loogo (Super Monkey Group)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The product description gives an accurate and amusing overview of the plot, so I'll skip the synopsis.

This is a great book for kids, and for grownups who like kids' books. It has action, adventure, mild peril, environmentally-friendly technology, stinky cheese, a beetle-eating villain, and a monkey - what's not to like? This book would be appropriate both for younger kids who are early readers (no inappropriate material) and for older reluctant readers (enthralling plot-line).

At ~15,000 words (maybe 100-150 pages), it's a full-length children's book. I'd estimate it to be about a 4th grade reading level. The author is Australian, so there are British English spellings (colour, metre, etc.). This book appears to have been professionally edited.

I got this as a freebie; it's worth paying for. There's also a sequel, The Humming Cows of Mount Bolliverger (Super Monkey Group).

I only got this title because it was free for my kindle and my (brilliant) 5 yo son wanted to read on my kindle. I grabbed something free and handed it over to him.

He read it outloud to me - and we BOTH cracked up!!

"ingredients:

...Persian Crinkled Mushrooms, Irish squeaking potatos"

We kept repeating that line in the Dr's office and he thought we were crazy. I'm sorry that I can't find a paper copy for him to carry around with him.

I can't wait for him to read me book 2!

I wasn't sure if this book would be liked when I bought it. I decided to read it out loud to my seven year old (not that he could not read it himself) as some mommy and me time. He seemed to like it enough when we started the book and I knew he was listening and reading along as he would correct me when I miss spoke. As soon as we were done with the book he wanted me to look for more of these stories. I guess he LIKED it. That was good enough for me. I say take a chance on this one. It is goofy and fun with a Spy kids type of feeling to it.

I "bought" this for free. I started reading it. I stopped rather quickly. I don't now recall specific complaints - that was months ago - but today I noticed it still has just one 5 star review, so... perhaps everyone else who tried it and didn't like it hesitated to say so as well.