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The Day Louis Got Eaten (2011)

by John Fardell(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1849390150 (ISBN13: 9781849390156)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Andersen

review 1: I would say a big part of this book is about the food chain. the little brother gets swallowed by a creature, and the big sister embrakes on a journey to save him. and each and every time she almost makes it another creature comes and eats the previous one. but she does eventually makes it, and save her brother using a toad, yep, a T-O-A-D. (I suspect you can only find these kind of solutions in children books). but then all the creatures wants to eat the sister, so the brother steps up and says that if the dare he would eat them all. and guess what? the creatures are scared of him, of the little boy one of them swallowed before! that was hilarious. I think children would really love this book.
review 2: Imaginative monsters, creative bike modifications, recipr... moreocal sibling heroism, and an awesome picture of crawling into a series of stomachs. What doesn't this book have? I read it for storytime, and it went well, but it would go even better as a book to read at home because the illustrations have lots of things you can talk about that aren't written down. I like that the girl is the main hero of the book, but her brother also gets his chance to step up and save her. That way, it's more about siblings looking out for each other than it is about a heroic boy or girl, and both boys and girls can identify with a same-gender hero in the book. Normally I wouldn't give a crap about kids having a same-gender hero, but more and more kids I talk to are giving boy or girl labels to what I thought were unisex stories, so I appreciate that this story has a hero for boy and girl listeners. I'm not doing it justice by analyzing it so hard. It's a fun, silly story with lots of adventure and ingenuity. One of the first books to be taken out after reading it at storytime. less

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