Customer Reviews

Little Red

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Little Red is a touching and heartwarming story of friendship and caring about ones feelings. It will not only delight the young but the old as well. The illustrations are wonderful and the story is simple for the youngest of readers. Sarah Ferguson did it again, first with Budgie the helicopter and now with Little Red.

I think the story is really cute and I love the illustration. But more importantly, my four year old daughter loves this book. It has quickly become one of her favorites and I plan to buy more of the Little Red books.

I found this book to be just what I was looking for: a sweet story with all the best elements for young children. it has natural beauty in the setting and illustrations; whimsical characters, but not too whimsical for the kids to relate to them; a pony (what little one doesn't want a pony in the story?); creativity that keeps the interest (a mildly militant heron trying his best to help, a sweet little bunny in need of rescue, etc, etc); and the most delightful of all qualities in a good story, for preschoolers especially, is including a show of bravery without any scary threat. this book is creative, sweet, not too short or too long, and has lovely as well as lively illustrations. a true gem. i have no idea how someone could find anything wrong with this book.

I was not very impressed by this book when my daughter brought it home from the library, but she LOVES it. I got her a copy of her own, and she still brings home the library copy from time to time.

The story is very cute, but shallow. I don't think the story really teaches anything important (although not all stories have to), and it isn't particularly clever--just cutesy. Which, I suppose, is what many three-year-old girls are looking for. Parents, however, would probably be interested in other books.

This book looks really cute, especially the inside cover illustration of Little Red's "world". Unfortunately, once you get past the really charming illustrations, you find a story that is about as engaging as those mass-produced "character" oriented books where the author is basically "Disney". For a book of 40 pages with this many illustrations, remarakably little actually happens, and you could sum it up in once sentence: While on a picnic Red and friends hear a loud noise, investigate, discover creaures in need of assistance, render aid, and everyone shares the picnic. That's it. Really. Don't waste your time.

i would rather be stabbed in the eye with a rusty fish hook than have to read this terrible book to my children ever again. the writing is awful and the illustrations are only slightly better

This is just the worst of the worst. Stilted language and a saccharine (or should I say treacly?) sweet story. Little catch phrases that are supposed to be cute abound. Yuck.

Of course my 2 year old loves it.

Currently, it seems all sort of celebrities think they can write a children's book, especially if a great illustrator is brought in to "pump up" the content. This story is very weak, although the pictures are cute. Story line: Little Red reaches out to a lilly pad to rescue a bunny. The book was given to my daughter; I would never have wasted my money on this.

(And why on earth is Sarah Ferguson still banking on her Duchess title-it's been how many years since she was divorced from her Prince??) Oh sorry, different rant.