Reviews for Fun to Go

The average rating for Fun to Go based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-20 00:00:00 Luis Martorell 🍎 Jean Slaughter Doty wrote one of my very favourite books, Can I Get There By Candlelight? and I have been wanting to read her other books for over ten years. Thanks to TradeMe, I have finally found two, including this one, which I loved. Thankfully it held up to many years worth of expectations! It's very much typical of this kind of book but in the best possible way. It's a fairly simple chapter book, probably a great one to use to introduce readers to slightly longer stories that they could read confidently on their own, while still being short enough that you could read it aloud in one or two sittings. It is beautifully illustrated by Sam Savitt. This is another book that puts something that happens near the end of the story in the description on the back. I always find it such an odd choice on the publishers part as I see no purpose to it. Do parents require the knowledge of how the book turns out before they are willing to give it to their child? It's the only explanation I can think of, and it doesn't really feel that plausible. It's not as significant as the one for Can I Get There By Candlelight? but it still feels unnecessary. To counterbalance the annoyance of the back cover, there is the pleasing discovery that the horse on the front cover of the book matches the one from the story inside. This probably shouldn't seem like a thing worth noting, but I have lost track of how many horsey books I have read where the cover, while pretty, has nothing to do with the book it is representing.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-21 00:00:00 Kristen Hansen In yet another of my "read over and over as a kid and lost but now found" review series, I bring you Summer Pony. In this amazing book, a young girl's parents rent a pony for her for one summer. They go to a totally run down farm where 20 ponies are being kept in horrible conditions (which in a story today would culminate in the farm owner being charged with animal cruelty, but whatever it was the 70s). She chooses a shabby, dirty, neglected pony with two different colored eyes and then proceeds to be the BEST PONY OWNER EVER. I hate to spoil this for you because it's some serious non-stop action and drama. PONY DRAMA, people. It really doesn't get much better than this if you are an 8 year old in 1985.