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Kane Chronicles Survival Guide (2012)

by Rick Riordan(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 7

ISBN

014134508X (ISBN13: 9780141345086)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Puffin Books

review 1: I liked this guide book because it had more information than what you could get from reading the books, it wasn't just a summary, although some of it was. I didn't like how you weren't sure what was fact and what was fiction but it did have a good section on Egyptian history. I liked the illustrations and I wish there were more of them. I also liked the interview with Sadie because I miss the characters from the series.Overall, it was informative but still kind of repetitive from the books.
review 2: ***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***Learn the details of The Kane Chronicles world in this interactive ebook featuring character profiles, Egyptian History and Egyptian Mythology. Hear exclusive interviews with Carter and Sadie Kane and meet the many Kane ... moreChronicles Characters up close and personal. Learn to read hieroglyphs show your knowledge of the Egyptian world and magic in interactive quizzes. All that and more awaits you in the Kane Chronicles Survival Guide.Even though this is a shorter novel, be sure to a lot a decent amount of time to reading the Interactive Ebook version of this book. If the cute bits of information weren’t interesting enough. Most pictures include animation when touched and touching certain spots in the novel will bring sound and voice clips to life as you make your way through this short informational book. Touching section titles shows the names rewritten in hieroglyphs which I’m sure will delight young Kane Chronicles fans. One page if you touch the page just right snakes crawl across your screen as you read. The enhanced editions special effects will certainly appeal to young readers. While I thought this was cute though it didn’t offer much in the way of appeal for an adult reader. While the actual novels in this series are well written enough to attract a wider audience The Survival Guide targets only the younger readers. If you’re under the impression that this book includes series associated short stories or anything really necessary to the regular book series I think you’ll find yourself very disappointed. While the interviews with Sadie and Carter are adorable and being able to read about Egyptian gods and some of their myths as well as the country’s history is interesting, the book isn’t really necessary or beneficial to the series. What series information is included in this novel is mostly already revealed in the actual novels and in some places it actually contradicts that main series books. For example in this book Bes is the God of Children while in the main series books he’s the God of Gnomes. The book related information offered in the survival guide only offers information that’s been provided already in the first two books of the series, it does not include anything revealed in The Serpent’s Shadow with the exception of a short except from Chapter 13 which you can hear read to you in Sadie’s voice if you so choose. Since the most offered character wise is character profiles I can’t really talk about characterization though I will note that most character profiles include on touch animated illustrations so children can see how the character is intended to look. Some character illustrations are actually a bit of a surprise, for example Anubis look very little like I pictured him in my head when I was reading the series novels, in this book he looks almost oriental in nationality and he doesn’t much resemble the bad boy Sadie always describes. The benefits of this book are not so much in the enhancement of the series because honestly I don’t see how it does do that, but in the educational value for children who are fans of the series. Parents can use their children’s Kane Chronicles worship to get them to learn about moments in world history related to Egypt as well as Egyptian myth and various other Kane Chronicles related topics. The book includes illustrations, photographs, maps and sound effects to make the learning experience enjoyable to children.Overall I'd recommend this book to parents who have children that are fans of the Kane Chronicles series because the way the book makes learning fun is always a benefit to parents seeking to better educate their children. I would not however really recommend this book to adult fans of the series. less

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