Storybook Favorites
I first storybook I am reviewing is How I Met Your Mother by Rachel Cunningham. The storybook focuses on stories of men telling
their children how the men met their wives.
The title caught my eye because I am a huge How I Met Your Mother fan.
Rachel incorporates running gags and sayings from the show in her
retelling of the stories. The one thing
that stands out that I would like to incorporate is that there is a link at the
end of each page to the next story, so I don’t have to scroll back up to the
top to the site map to go to the next story.
My second review is over King Arthur in India by Jake. I am a big
Arthur nerd and I took Dr. Coleman’s Arthurian Legend class a couple of semesters
ago. When I was reading about the Dashavatar, the embodiments of Vishnu-
Parshurama, Rama, Krishna, and Kalki- made me think of Merlin and Arthur. Parshurama and Krishna coordinate with the roles
of Merlin in the legends, and Rama and Kalki coordinate with Arthur. I want to keep this storybook in mind because
I was leaning toward exploring the Arthur connections, but I want to make sure I
don’t repeat any of Jake’s hard work. I
like how the main menu stays at the top of the text even when I scroll, so I
can click the next story, but I like how Rachel made her links better.
The last review is the storybook Karma for Kids: Stories for your Unruly Children. Sometimes my kids get a little unruly, so
the title caught my eye. The storybook
focuses on a mother and her young triplets.
In the introduction and each story, the children cause trouble and the
mother tells them a story that relates to the situation the children
caused. I like this focus because the
author employs one of the major purposes of mythology- teaching life lessons
through story. Of the three, I think
this storybook did the best implementing the images within the text to make it
feel like an actual storybook.
The image can be found at Clip Art Library.
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