This book is about a girl of seven, Olivia, who moves to a new house, a house that has a secret which she stumbles across one day – the secret being a resident monster, Burrufu. She and he then becomes friends, and what seven-year-old girl doesn’t want a big, friendly, furry monster to cuddle?
I liked Olivia’s wide-eyed enthusiasm and inquisitive nature so typical of a little girl, and which I think would appeal to your typical child reader. I loved the illustrations which were really cute. I loved the inventiveness in how the text changed size to indicate different volumes and I liked the name of the monster, Burrufu, which just sounded a really thought out name.
On the negative maybe the vocabulary was a bit simple, although this is a book for children so you'd want it to do that, and the book is short taking an hour to read, and maybe there could have been more pictures, the ones that were in there were so great you wanted more, and perhaps the pictures could have been in colour instead of black and white but these are all minor points and shouldn’t detract from what is a great story that children and parents should love, a story of friendship, and also friendship in adversity.
(A copy of this book was given to me in exchange for an honest review. It is listed on Amazon here.)
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