A review by calistareads
Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses
4.0
Beautiful illustrations using the song lyrics of "Sweet Child o' Mine" about a Father/ Daughter relationship. It's difficult to read this and not hear that twang in Axel's voice as he sings rain. I guess I couldn't do it at all. This takes the song and interrupts it in a pure and innocent setting.
The father looks similar to Axel and its easy to think that Jennifer made this an Ode to the Song.
The artwork is lovely. The settings are farms, fairs, gardens and playgrounds. It would make great cinematography. I thought the book was well done. If I could still read this to the kids, I would then play them the song. The song is not quite as sweet as this story with the rosy pictures. The song has an edge to it. Still, it's a great song.
I remember when Guns n' Roses hit the scene. I was in 8th grade and I mean, it was overnight. All the sudden everyone was showing up with tee-shirts and art about Guns n' Roses and I was like, what is all this about? It took me some time to catch up to the craze. They went to Memphis to do a show and several of the kids went. It was a school night and the drive was like an hour and a half there or back and I remember thinking, why would they do that on a school night? They would be so tired at school (of course they didn't care about that). Plus, they seemed rather young to go to a concert like that, but it's all anyone could talk about. Now you can all see how uncool I was back then. I caught up eventually. I was singing show tunes and Disney songs, so that's where I was.
The father looks similar to Axel and its easy to think that Jennifer made this an Ode to the Song.
The artwork is lovely. The settings are farms, fairs, gardens and playgrounds. It would make great cinematography. I thought the book was well done. If I could still read this to the kids, I would then play them the song. The song is not quite as sweet as this story with the rosy pictures. The song has an edge to it. Still, it's a great song.
I remember when Guns n' Roses hit the scene. I was in 8th grade and I mean, it was overnight. All the sudden everyone was showing up with tee-shirts and art about Guns n' Roses and I was like, what is all this about? It took me some time to catch up to the craze. They went to Memphis to do a show and several of the kids went. It was a school night and the drive was like an hour and a half there or back and I remember thinking, why would they do that on a school night? They would be so tired at school (of course they didn't care about that). Plus, they seemed rather young to go to a concert like that, but it's all anyone could talk about. Now you can all see how uncool I was back then. I caught up eventually. I was singing show tunes and Disney songs, so that's where I was.