Outside Reading- Book review

Holiday Books: Americana

By LEAH HAGER COHEN

 I found this book to be interesting because it is essential groundbreaking, groundbreaking in the sense that it is a picture book for adults. Apparently it is in response to editors cutting the number of children’s picture books, this cutting of books is due to the fact the parents are forcing their children o read chapter books sooner. The fear of stupidity is astounding.
As I read this review I kept looking for some critical analysis of it and I simply could not find it. This author says nothing bad about this book, nothing! I thought that book reviews where supposed to review the books strengths and weakness. All this critic does is go on and on about hoe great this book its, so thus I could not talk about the critical perspective in this review. With all of the talking this critic does I barely find any useful information about this book. The over all structure of this review was rather messy, and hard to follow, which took away from the actual merit of it. I would have like to have seen some actual critical views on this book, or at least a sturdy, flowing structure.
Even so the happy go lucky tone of this author is somewhat contagious to people, as she express her excitement for this book. Cohen continually praises this author’s tone and style, all of this excitement might transfer over to some readers, not to be thought. Over all I found this review to be rather useless and a poor representation of what a book review should be.