hainyh's review
5.0
The first thing that stuck out for me for 'Hoppy's Big City Adventure' was the dedication; Gabrielle's father retold this story to her over and over again as a little girl, and she put pen to paper and turned it into a book, which is lovely. It's a book about Hoppy the frog, whose friends tell him there is a storm coming; Hoppy ignores the warnings and ends up lost. The short and sweet moral of the story is that Hoppy realises it is good to listen when someone tells you to be careful. A nice simple story with lovely illustrations.
librarianryan's review
2.0
This book sounds like a story a child would tell. The frog is told by many to be careful, doesn’t listen and ends up lost. But when he does the exact things that got him lost to begin with, he ends up back at his home. This story is too simple, too easy. Not in terms of reading, but in plan. It’s very wordy and the story line seems half done. I like the graphics they are nice and bright. I wish the wording was over layered on the graphics instead on white pages in between.
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