Reviews for Highlights Fun to Play: Recorder Book

The average rating for Highlights Fun to Play: Recorder Book based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-21 00:00:00 John Cuneo It's an interesting short picture book. The main amazement of the story comes at the end of it. The drawings are praiseworthy and they say much more about the emotion of the story than the word itself.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-08 00:00:00 David Brown This book was poorly organized, and it was quite the missed opportunity. At first it's a run of the mill, tired "I am a minority in some way and here is some stilted language about my customs" book, and then all of a sudden there's an actual narrative and things get interesting. Obviously books like these always have the challenge and choice to make as far as whether you want to cater to audiences that think everyone not like them is different and needs lots of exposition or whether you actually want to write something literary, and this book suffers from trying to do both at the same time. Had the organization of the book been such that the narrative naturally folded in some of the explanation of customs, it would have been readable. But as it stands, it's really fairly terrible as a book, which is a shame because it's an interesting story.