Parra's folk-style illustrations were fun to look at. I am still thinking about the pages where he did a bird's eye view of a town square and park. but the pictures did not salvage the experience of the book. There was no reason this book needed to rhyme. Many of the rhymes felt forced and distracte...
Learning about shapes and some Spanish, too.
This book was decently written and had a good plot. However, it felt very generic, like a direct-to-video movie with no-name stars. Unless you're a huge fan of stories about middle schoolers--who, in this book, acted nothing like the kids I went to middle school with--or Gail Carson Levine, I can'...
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