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Liked It Rated 4 stars “Genre: graphic novel Age: 10 and up Total Pages: 178 Annotation: School’s out for summer, and everyone’s heading off to summer camp. Everybody has something Top Secret to work on, but, will the Pond Monster destroy the town? Review: The town is peopled by animals of all sorts—even...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 4 stars

  “Genre: graphic novel Age: 10 and up Total Pages: 178
  Annotation: School’s out for summer, and everyone’s heading off to summer camp. Everybody has something Top Secret to work on, but, will the Pond Monster destroy the town?
  Review: The town is peopled by animals of all sorts—even marine creatures in Bubble-Domed cars filled with water. Everyone has a niche and when summer camp rolls around, Turnip doesn’t know what to do. Fortunately, Stucky Hound invites him to a concert, and that’s when the fun begins.
  This story with the vivid characters and bigger-than-life town deal with issues that are familiar: fitting in, losing friends, growing up, overprotective parents, and terrifying monsters. But, the friendships and sense of adventure carry this story and you don’t want to leave this place. This is a great read for all of those juvenile sleuths out there who want to know what the REAL story is.
  Critical Review:
  Booklist raves about this book with its sweet characters which are just like real children: wholesome, but not too sweet. The Booklist review recommends this for fans of Harriet the Spy or Matilda. Those would be great crossovers, but could potentially limit the audience to girls, whereas Spiral-Bound truly is for both boys and girls.
  Comicbookgalaxy.com also gave a very favorable review to the book, both for adults looking back upon their childhood, as well as for children actively living it. Comic Book Galaxy’s only critique was for the very busy illustration which sometimes provided too much to look at. It’s true—the art is very busy. It reminds me of the episodes of Family Circus where the oldest son Billy traces his adventures with the busy map. But, while it could be a negative feature for adults looking for a clean story, the busy-ness of the graphics illustrates the haste of the children in the story. In all, this is a great story about summer adventure.
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  Kim M wrote this review Sunday, November 16 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 4 stars

  “just a few things. a summer with nothing to to, an investigating rabbit, an artistic dog, a kind elephant, a bird that take photo graphs, a dark lake, a mysterious monster, an underground tram system, an art show, a secret printing press and two rock concerts.”

  rebelangell wrote this review Sunday, September 14 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No