 First edition | |
| Author | Lauren Child |
|---|---|
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Children's literature, Picture book |
| Published | 2000 (Hodder Children's Books) |
| Media type | Print (hardback, paperback) |
| Pages | 32 (unpaginated) |
| ISBN | 9780340779156 |
| OCLC | 44563017 |
Beware of the Storybook Wolves is a 2000 picture book written by Lauren Child. It is about Herb, a little boy, who has an adventure with a number of characters, including a couple of wolves, from his fairy tale books.
Booktrust, in a review of Beware of the Storybook Wolves, wrote "A simple story, well told, but it is the adventurous artwork that makes this book stand out." [1]
The Horn Book Magazine wrote "While the concept is innovative and the conclusion is satisfying, the overlong text trips on its own cleverness." [2]
Beware of the Storybook Wolves has also been reviewed by Booklist , [3] School Library Journal [4] Kirkus Reviews , [5] Publishers Weekly , [6] and Books for Keeps . [7]
It was awarded a 2000 bronze Smarties Book Prize. [8]
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This goofy tale is fractured in all the right places.
Despite its eye-popping visual whimsy, this offering misses the mark on several fronts.
Not quite as devilish as a Scieszka/Smith production, but just a step shy and with the same sophisticated, crackpot patter that may likely zoom right over young listeners' heads while pleasing adult readers.
The chatty narrative is not as effective here as it is in Child's Clarice Bean series ... Yet Child succeeds in dramatizing ambivalence to scary books, which provide excitement but harbor nightmarish creatures in their pages.
Lauren Child's Beware of the Storybook Wolves is a far more sophisticated offering which depends heavily on intertext: children who are not steeped in fairy tale will find it hard to follow ..
