Reviews for Mississippi

The average rating for Mississippi based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-09-17 00:00:00 Summer Johansen I don't think Kushner is a kids' author by nature. This book is okay, but not very funny although I think it tries to be (Kushner is best at the clever, nasty, subtler sort of humor) and it is obvious and didactic in the manner of someone who underestimates what children are able to understand. Q: "What makes you cry but doesn't make you sad?" A: "An onion." OH COME ON EVERYONE KNOWS THIS JOKE. And even if a person hadn't heard it they would figure it out easily. All the riddles are this easy, or totally stupid. I don't even care about riddles and I feel disrespected by her treatment of the sacred tradition of the riddle-game. I also didn't like the illustrations.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-01 00:00:00 Rosana Ponomavenco I picked this up on a friend's bookshelf, and it wandered home to visit me. It is a standard middle-grade portal fantasy, different only in the Jewish elements. I enjoyed it, and found it occasionally especially whimsical or visual, but basically it's predictable and perfectly good for what it is.