Reviews for Medea's children

The average rating for Medea's children based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-22 00:00:00 Peter Silvestri This is the second book in the Measle Stubbs Adventures series by Ian Ogilvy. We haven't read the first book, but our girls liked the picture on the cover and decided to borrow the book. This story is a good introduction to the sci-fi genre for children. The narrative is engaging and the story is fast-paced. I liked the wickedly evil Wrathmonks, as they were very evil, but a bit silly, too. Their Three Stooges-like antics add quite a bit of humor to the tale. The plot is quite dramatic in a few places, but not too scary. Unfortunately, our girls just couldn't get into the story. Maybe they would like the story better if they read the first book in the series and got to know the characters first. I don't think that I'm going to convince them to do that, however, so we probably won't read any more of the books in this series. In any case, I liked this one. interesting quotes: "'The average human,' he said, 'is an idle brute.'" (p. 6) "Be quiet, Measle and listen. You only learn things if you listen. If you blabber and jabber all the time, you learn nothing - but everybody within earshot learns something. They learn that you're an idiot." (p. 95) "Measle had always been good at one thing - and that was knowing what to worry about and what not to worry about. He knew that the only things you ought to worry about were the things you could change. If you couldn't do anything about the problem, then it was a waste of time worrying about it." (pp. 182-183)

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-26 00:00:00 Zaw Coolinga Measle is in another adventure just when he is enjoying time with his father and mother. His mother, Lee, is kidnapped while the family goes shopping for groceries. The father is hit on the head with a bottle, causing amensia. Through some clues, Measle tries to get his mother back from the wrathmonks who took her. Only to find out that a dragodon and a dragon still survive in an amusement park.