Lionboy

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Summary: Lionboy
Review: This book is wonderful!! My husband and I just finished reading this to our seven year old (bi-racial) boy. Alll three of us couldn't wait for the next chapter. A clever tale about a bi-racial child who can talk to cats. We are always searching for quality reading that has multi racial main characters or racial at all - let's face it Harry Potter is an all white crowd as are most of the exciting and well written books for children. BIG HUGE PRAISE FOR THIS BOOK. We loved the story and identify with the character. THANK YOU Zizou Corder!

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Summary: A lovely book
Review: This is a delightful story about a young boy on a quest to rescue his parents. He can talk to all species of cats and uses this ability on his journey. He helps and is helped by a group of lions. I enjoyed reading this novel. It is short and just took an afternoon. I was dissapointed that the ending was "to be continued..." because there is no sequel yet available. If things weren't left hanging I might not feel so cheated at the end. I would recomend this book for children but you might want to wait for the next book to be published before starting this one.

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Summary: A great beginning.
Review: This is a great beginning to a story. I'm sure that by the next book the author will be more comfortable in her voice as she was around halfway through the book and on. While this is definetely not a rival to Harry Potter it is a worthy book to check out and explore this strange new world the author is laying out before us. Check it out, you'll probably like it.

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Summary: WHAT?!! To be continued?!
Review: You've got to be kidding me. A book that ends in mid-stream, with the words "To be continued"? This book contains a cardinal sin in publishing. I have absolutely no problem with continuing action across several volumes, but like the Harry Potter series, at least make each of the volumes capable of standing alone. There is absolutely no resolution at the end of this volume. Maddening. And if it was well-written, I would have at least given it 3 or 4 stars, the "to-be-continued" transgression notwithstanding. But the author ("authors" if you count the child) repeats words within sentences and between sentences (those must have been the sentences written by the child) to maddening effect, relies heavily on trite statements and cliches, and has no sense of pacing. It's as if someone sat down with a list of things children like -- "Well, they like circuses, they like lions, they like big boats, they like choo-choo trains, they like chases, and they like kings! Let's put together a book with all these ingredients!" Although my two sons, ages 7 and 9, to whom I was reading this, are not bothered by repeated words and cliches, they were very upset with the pseudo ending. ("Keep reading!" "Well, sorry boys, the only thing left are the acknowledgements." "Oh.") Charlie and his silly escapades will have to be taken up by other readers. This is where we get off the train.