540 / 50 in '11: #18
Oct. 28th, 2011 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Watched the last two innings of the World Series at the gym tonight, then a bit of whatever police procedural show they had on another of the screens. Props to whatever actor was playing the murderer in the latex bodysuit. His very creepy nigh-inhuman body language made for an interesting American take on the rubber suit monster. :) Unfortunately, however, my fake!Pod ran out of battery halfway through the first TFs Score....
Title: Fourth-Graders Don't Believe In Witches
Author: Terri Fields
Length: 105 pages
I have a weakness for kids' stories about magic. I have a whole slew of Ruth Chew's books, for instance. So when I saw this on the library sale cart, I bought it on the basis of the title and cover illustration. For $.50, what could go wrong?
It's not the greatest kid-meets-magic book I've ever read. Fields doesn't seem to have a consistent background for magic in this universe. Are witches universally known and believed to exist? She's inconsistent on this point, and, frankly, adults believing in magic or not needs to be solid. Either the magic is widely acknowledged, or it's kept hidden. One or the other, not both. But other than that, and a moment where Allan says his life is not like a kid in a book's, this isn't half-bad. It's as much about finding self-confidence and making friends as it is about magic.
Verdict: even retail, the book only costs $2.75. Worth a read if you like the genre.
Title: Fourth-Graders Don't Believe In Witches
Author: Terri Fields
Length: 105 pages
I have a weakness for kids' stories about magic. I have a whole slew of Ruth Chew's books, for instance. So when I saw this on the library sale cart, I bought it on the basis of the title and cover illustration. For $.50, what could go wrong?
It's not the greatest kid-meets-magic book I've ever read. Fields doesn't seem to have a consistent background for magic in this universe. Are witches universally known and believed to exist? She's inconsistent on this point, and, frankly, adults believing in magic or not needs to be solid. Either the magic is widely acknowledged, or it's kept hidden. One or the other, not both. But other than that, and a moment where Allan says his life is not like a kid in a book's, this isn't half-bad. It's as much about finding self-confidence and making friends as it is about magic.
Verdict: even retail, the book only costs $2.75. Worth a read if you like the genre.
