Horace hides inside his house and won’t play with them, so the neighbourhood children decide to pester him until he comes out.

Initially I did not think I would be able to review this, as the cloud reader kept freezing from all the images. However, eventually the whole book loaded.

The book itself is in a portrait layout similar to a scanned print book, a format that is common to many children’s books due to the difficulty of formatting ebook illustrations. This is no exception: each page has pencil and pencil crayon artwork, lightly shaded, which is done it a style to attract children. It also works as a flip book in places, where paging on changes the picture just enough for an impression of time passing.

The text of the story is told in a line or two of bright red text at the bottom of each page, as part of the image. This does, unfortunately, mean that it can’t be resized and the size of text varies from page to page.

There is one glaring problem with this book however, and that is spelling. I can’t recommend it to children learning to read because the mistakes (new/knew and know/no) are obvious, jarring, and repeated. It is the kind of mistake that drops you out of the story.

Loc 9, 19 “…none of them new why.”
then loc 67 “But know one was quite sure.”

I can’t give it a high rating because of those errors and in a book this short, those should be fixed. Rather than give an artifically low rating, I’m putting this as unrated. Fix the proofing and let me know and it will go up.