3 out of 4 stars
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The Little Lilly: Lilly’s Adventures by Dimitris Lamproulis is a children’s book geared towards children aged 6-12. This books presents age appropriate lessons to the reader with the use of colorful characters and vivid scenes. These characters include animals and insects, such as Little Lilly, a young ladybug.
In this adventurous little tale, we follow along with Lilly in her search for the famous bug doctor after her mother falls ill. He is the only one who can help! During her travels, Lilly makes a new friend, escapes a dangerous situation, and visits an interesting city full of magic and wonder.
Although she is too young to fly, Lilly proves that she is strong enough and clever enough to pull through for her family. Through the eyes of our little lady bug, children will encounter the magic of some famous Disney characters, the fear of potential dangers felt when Lilly was traveling through the unknown, and the love she undoubtedly had for her family members as well as her new friend.
This really is a cute children’s story. I feel like the age range suggested for this book is a bit ambitious, though. The Little Lilly is a 68 page book without the aid of colorful pictures. While it is a fun story, this book may not hold the attention of a six or seven-year-old. However, the latter part of this age group can probably read this story over the span of a weekend. I think it would be helpful, though, if there were chapter breaks throughout the book. There are clear breaks in ideas where the author has put a line of text in bold, and this would be an ideal place to start a new chapter. That would make it easier for a child to find a stopping point in his or her reading, while making the text appear neater and more pleasing to the eye.
It also seems as if this book was not professionally edited. I ran into several errors while reading. In the beginning of the story, for example, the author used the word leaving where I think he meant living. There are several cases where commas are left out when needed, or included when not needed. At times, multiple punctuation appears. One sentence included an exclamation point, quotation marks, and then a period. Some sentences were simply phrased in an awkward manner, and could be worded to sound better and more understandable for the intended audience.
Because this story is ultimately a good story with a positive message, I cannot rate it 2 stars, regardless of the many errors. So, I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars, and recommend it to children in the middle school age range of 9 to 11; perhaps 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. Ideally, this is before they have “aged-out” of such children’s books, but after they have a better grasp on reading chapter books or books without pictures to help keep their attention.
The author does a good job of passing along the positive messages this book holds. So, by the time a child has finished reading, he or she should have a good grasp on what the author is portraying in his book.
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