heisereads's review against another edition
4.0
An entertaining "meta" story about a girl whose family lives in a book and is searching for her own story. Would pair well with [b:We are in a Book!|7846067|We are in a Book!|Mo Willems|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327962539s/7846067.jpg|10953171] and has allusions to many fairy tales and genre tropes.
librarybrods's review
4.0
This is GREAT. It works as a read-aloud, but not as well as I thought it would. Still, wonderful.
wordnerd153's review
5.0
Love the concept of this book! It would make for a fantastic read aloud to introduce elementary students to different genres and to inspire them to write their own stories.
maidmarianlib's review
3.0
Very silly adventure, good connections to all the genres of literature and patterns of storytelling
caitcoy's review
4.0
This is a super cute story about a family who live in a book and each member of the family (even the pets) has their own story. All except for the little girl who tries her best to find her own story as she wanders through the stories of the other members of her family. It's probably something that would appeal more to older kids as you'd need to understand the references to fairy tales, mysteries and other types of books but I thought it was very sweet.
zbayardo's review
5.0
This was an absolutely awesome! I saw so many way to use the book. As a librarian I could use it to teach and talk about genres. As a writing teacher I could use it to teach and talk about the brainstorming of a story or how a story can begin in many different ways. Great book!
randiroo's review
3.0
3 1/2 stars. Very detailed and colorful illustrations (loved the shadowing). I loved how dialogue was illustrated. Kids would enjoy the imagination that goes into this book. I appreciated the ending of the story, but I'm not sure I'd use this in the middle school classroom. Overall, well worth the read, but I wasn't overly impressed.