Review: Unfortunately

Unfortunately

Written by Alan Durant

Illustrated by Simon Rickerty

Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 978-1-40831-125-7

Summary:
When you are walking through the jungle, almost anything can happen. Unfortunately, sometimes it's bad, but fortunately sometimes it's good ...Young children will love this funny and original story full of different twists and turns with a fabulously unexpected ending! Written by an award-winning author, the story is brought to vivid and vibrant life by an exciting new illustrator.

Review:
My 2.5 year old son loved this book!  Written in the style of 'fortunately, unfortunately, fortunately, unfortunately', the story gets stranger and more weird as each page is turned, and it had my son laughing out loud, wondering what the next bad thing was that was going to happen.

The first pages of the book start the 'unfortunately' journey:
One bright, sunny day, a boy was walking happily through the jungle, whistling.
Unfortunately, he met a big, scary lion with very sharp teeth.
The lion ROARED and leapt at the boy.
Fortunately, the boy quickly climbed up a tree to escape.
"Can't catch me!"
Unfortunately...

As a direct result of this book, my son has now learnt the use of the word 'unfortunately', and I now get conversations like "Unfortunately, I didn't have a nap.  Fortunately, it's time to go to the playground now!" - is this a good thing or a bad thing, I'm undecided yet!!

However, I thoroughly recommend this book - it's hilarious, and the illustrations are gorgeous.  If you're interested in purchasing this title, you can pick up a copy from here.

My rating: 4.8 out of 5


Review written by Bronwyn