Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Beware of the Storybook Wolves" in English language version.
Lauren Child's Beware of the Storybook Wolves is a far more sophisticated offering which depends heavily on intertext: children who are not steeped in fairy tale will find it hard to follow ..
Not quite as devilish as a Scieszka/Smith production, but just a step shy and with the same sophisticated, crackpot patter that may likely zoom right over young listeners' heads while pleasing adult readers.
The chatty narrative is not as effective here as it is in Child's Clarice Bean series ... Yet Child succeeds in dramatizing ambivalence to scary books, which provide excitement but harbor nightmarish creatures in their pages.
Despite its eye-popping visual whimsy, this offering misses the mark on several fronts.
This goofy tale is fractured in all the right places.
