This book is supposed to be for kids??? (Brian Jacques in general)

Member Name: thera_42

Product:	Brian Jacques in general
Date:	19/02/01 (21 review reads)
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Advantages: it's an extra to add to a collection

Disadvantages: it's awkward to build and it'll be hard to keep safe once built

I just bought myself a book because it was about Redwall, a mysterious place written about by Brian Jacques. I wouldn't classify the books as children's books as they would be too hard going for the average kid, they might be a good book to read to a child and they did make an excellent cartoon out of them. Be that as it may I've been collecting books from the Redwall series for some time now and I found this book which is more like a folder and it was being sold quite cheap so I bought it for myself. Basically it contained a 3d model of the Redwall Abbey made from several pieces of thin card and a new short story. The short story isn't really worth it, it's far below the sort of thing I've come to expect and it takes place in the middle of something that he has already covered in other books.

He's done the jumping around in time thing quite a lot where the next book he writes was set sometime before the first book in the series or perhaps slots somewhere in the middle.

My main gripe with this folder/book though is that no child I know could ever put together the cardboard cut outs. You don't have to cut or glue anything yourself but it's so fiddly and doesn't fit together brilliantly...it was hard enough for me putting it together and I put together models and jigsaw puzzles and things like that all the time. The instructions on how to build it aren't exactly clear either and I can't see anyone wanting to have to put it together for their child unless they have incredible patience. So I guess this is a warning to all of you who care don't buy the Redwall Abbey folder/book set...

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