The Box People (Book One of the Ersatz Trilogy)

author: Kenny Peavy

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.00

book published: 2013

rating: 2

read at: 2014/10/10

date added: 2014/10/10

shelves: children-s

review:

'The Box People' is a children's book with a heavy handed message and only fair prose and pictures. It's got a message of non-conformity, but seems to be more about overthrowing conventional norms in a sort of violent way.



People live in boxes. Surrounded by boxes, watching boxes, washing in boxes. You get the picture. One guy is so uptight about this that he goes to live in a park and everything is suddenly stress-free. He convinces all the box people to blow up their boxes and live in whatever way they'd like, as long as it's not in a box.



I'm not opposed to anarchy or unconventional ways of thinking in any literature, even children's literature. Where I had a problem here is with the peaceful, idyllic back-to-nature message being disrupted by destroying the city. For the type of book this is, that was a bit jarring.



The pictures are ok, but nothing that would engage a child. They book is written in a rhyming meter, but it's certainly no Dr. Seuss. While it seeks to have a rhythm in some paragraphs, it abandons it outright in others. And while the message about non-conformity is good, it's just too heavyhanded when it's all said and done.



I received a review copy of this ebook from First Edition Design Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.





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