Roary the Racing Car: Roary’s First Day
Based on the television series Roary the Racing Car
(copyright Chapman Entertainment Limited & David Jenkins)
and the original script ‘Roary’s First Day’ by Rachel Dawson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-725305-0
We don’t own a television and my children have only watched Roary the Racing Car a handful of times, but that was enough to have them fighting over this book in the back of the car for a good couple of days. For those of you unfamiliar with Roary the Racing Car, it is a British animated children’s show about (surprise!) a racing car called Roary and the other vehicles, animals and humans he encounters at the fictional Silver Hatch racing track where he lives. This story is based on the first ever episode.
The story itself is fine – its themes are encouraging others and overcoming fears – but as you’d expect from a book adapted from a 10 minute television episode there is a lot of information crammed into the 27 pages of this book. Numerous characters, dialogue and occurrences, not to mention a framing narrative (if you really want me to go all “I have an Honours Degree in English” on you) meant that I wasn’t entirely sure my 2.5 year olds were grasping the plot. My kids mostly loved flicking through the pages to look at all the pictures of the cars. So, I’d give the book a 5/5 for encouraging a love of books in children, but a 3/5 for story value.
My rating: 3 out of 5
Review written by team_s
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