I received a free e-copy from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.
I love picture books! I still remember clearly the beautiful illustrations in some of my childhood favourite, though I struggle to recall the plot. So I picked The tales from Christmas wood because I wanted to get some holiday spirit and because I liked the cover.
The illustrations are indeed adorable.the stories are a bit didactic. However, they nicely come up together in the end and remind us that it is indeed a Christmas story.
There are certain problems in the electronic edition I received. Some of the pictures appear in strange places, like the middle of publishing information. Also, there are illustrations where the characters appear on the solid black background, which looks a bit ugly. But I assume it is not the case in the actual printed editions.
Two of the chapters: A Burrow Full of Brothers and A Christmas Eve Adventure seem to have chunks of text mixed up, because the end of the chapter ends up in the middle and so forth. It’s rather hard yo read like that.
Overall: pretty pictures, not particularly exciting story, but brings the holiday spirit. The electronic version has design problems.
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