It's a light read and for some reason reminds me of the Mysterious Benedict Society books, although it is nothing like it. The Golden Acorn is the first installment in the Jack Brennin adventures and it adequately set the scene for the series. Jack also finds himself the subject of a great prophecy that could affect the very existence of this magical world. It is about a boy named Jack who discovers a world where magic dwells, animals and trees talk, and never-before-heard-of creatures exist. The writing is clear and simple, yet descriptive.
It is clearly a book for kids and it just served as a nice breather from whatever I was doing at the time. It took me a few days to read the book because I only read it in between breaks from work and what not. The Golden Acorn by Catherine Cooper was one of the nice ones. Some of the ones I read were so-so, but one or two were actually good. I download too many of these books, but I have only read a few of them. Every once in a while I check the top 100 free books list and download the ones that seem interesting to me. I am a sucker for free Kindle books on Amazon. This book, however, in my opinion, would be painful. Seuss is just good laugh out loud fun, I'll even concede that Harry Potter seems like the read with children sort, even if it's not my personal cuppa. There are brilliant books for this activity - The Hobbit, The Marvelous Land of Oz books, Dr. One of the most important things I look for in a children's book is whether I would enjoy reading it aloud to a child.
The story's potential (and it wasn't a bad story,) was suffocated under this apparent assumption that the target reader would be a moderately dull-witted six year old, which is a shame. The entire time I was reading this, I felt like a Stepford mom was leaning over my shoulder reading, "and then, THIS happened, and then THIS happened, and THEN do you KNOW what that means little girl? Well, I will just have to tell you! Wheeee!" Why is it that some adults can write for children, and create a whole new world for the child to get lost in wonder, and others write as if "child" is synonymous with "stupid?"
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