Walter the Woogobee, The Vortex to Vidza
Geared for children 5 to 10 years old
By Brenda Beckelman
Indigo River Publishing
A Book review
While youngsters might find the story fascinating, exciting, and challenging, and the art work captivating colorful and fun, there’s doubt the average five, or even 10-year-old knows the meaning of words like vortex, asteroid, telepathically or even trek or dissipate.
This story is charming, perking interest in “wind people” and highlighting the importance of communication as a means of making and keeping friends. But the combination of the adorable drawings that would intrigue a five-year-old and the patterns of quotations that would help a ten year old remember and understand each character being quoted appear to be a blend that makes the entire work a bit difficult for such a wide age group.
Similarly, with no chapter headings, and a book 37 pages long with a variety of reading styles and narratives spread across the pages it does not appear to be the first book a loving grandma would pick up to read to a child of any age.
Author Brenda Beckelman has a fantastic imagination, is a highly intelligent author who shows her own love of reading, imaging and has been identified as an award winning author, but Walter the Woogobee appears to be her first children’s book. Her biography also notes she teaches English south of the border, and there’s no doubt she loves children, being with them, and enjoying interaction that reminds her of her own happy childhood.
For the determined, the reader who like a mystery, the ten-year-old who loves living, at least for a few minutes, in an imaginary world, Walter the Woogobee is certainly worth a purchase (at less than $20) and a read. For a five year old that likes to cuddle and nod off while being read a story about traveling out in space, weather conditions and mean animals, it would definitely not be a first choice.
The book ends with a question, however, and that’s plenty and enough for the reader to want to look forward to what could happen next in book two.
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