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The Art of the Burger: More Than 50 Recipes to Elevate America's Favorite Meal to Perfection

Jens Fischer

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The essential book to have on hand before you fire up the grill this summer. In any city around the...

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Daniel J. Levitin

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Author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin tackles the problems of twenty-first century information...

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

Richard Holmes

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'Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, 'Falling Upwards' is really a history of hope and...

Night Reader Reviews (683 KP) rated A Collection of Short Stories in Books

Nov 9, 2020

The stories are only a couple pages long each. (0 more)

Sadly the book has a bunch of errors. (0 more)

Created with the intention of parents or other caregivers reading it to children

A Collection of Short Stories by Maggie Ffrench was created with the intention of parents or other caregivers reading it to children and sharing the experience.

Written my Maggie Ffrench for her grandson “Jamie’s” first birthday (if the story in the book is true) this book contains twelve imaginative stories to read to young children. All the stories focus on a fictional Jamie and his adventures both by himself and with his family.

Some of the stories like “Bubbles” where Jamie climbs into a bubble and flies over the town, or “The Present” where Jamie’s clay creations come alive are firmly in the realm of imagination. On the other hand “The Box” where Jamie plays with a box and “Looking” where Jamie looks out the window are placed in reality. This (almost) even mix offers a good balance for families.

What I liked best was that this book contains twelve short stories, each only a few pages long. Those pages even only have a couple of sentences on most of them at that, making them great for young ear who are easily distracted. Unfortunately there was quite a bit wrong with this book for how short it is. At least one of the stories cuts off without an ending and twice the book itself is referenced in stories. Some of the sentences are missing words completely while others have words like “controversial” which is an awfully big word (and strange one) to have in a children’s book. Then there is the page and a half that looks like it was photocopied.

This book appears to have been designed for parents to read to small children. The introduction even talks about how important the author believes it is for parents and children to read together. I rate this book 1 out of 4 or 2 out of 5. The concept is good but sadly the overall book is not. This book did not appear to have been edited very well and comes off as extremely amateurish. Honestly I really wanted to like this book, but for me it missed the mark big time.