Allison - Written by Allen Say

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This book is chiefly for the age range from five to seven for the English native speaker. In this book, the author uses the simple vocabulary and simple grammatical systems to present for the children. First of all, the author uses many dialogues to make this story more dynamic for the children, which will make the children and also the readers from any ages more easily to feel the meaning of the text.

Secondly, the surface and the content of the book are clean designed which will make the readers more easily to catch the key point. Every single page includes only one big picture which shows the characters’ facial expression very well. The author chooses the bright color as its background, so that the readers are getting more higher motivated to read this book.
Next, the pictures in this book are quite big and colorful. The picture style are presented in the realistic way which are more related to our daily life and we may not felt it is just a story. The plot is really close to human nature emotion, it is sufficiently presented the emotions such as happiness, sorrow and revenge.

In my personal particular opinion, this story is quite interesting and also touched by people because the experiences that happened to us regularly. I believed that every one has the same situation in childhood and that reflect our memory out. When we mad at something, we may simply show out our upset feeling by destroy something. Personally I like the facial expression very much of Allison. Her expression shows multiple feelings. And we can also felt the pain of her parents by looking the pictures. We can simply felt that this story is a mirror for our life and it is still happens now when we are growing up, sometimes we felt frustrated our angry, we will unconsciously hurt other people. In addition, we always ignore the original principle of goodness. Take this little girl as an example, she destroyed the favorite stuffs that belong to her parents, but she felt sorry when she realized her parents love her so much. I think the book is significant not only for the children but adult.

In conclusion, the books design the words, illustration and the color all presented very clearly and the content of this book are giving us the moral lesson. Therefore, I strongly recommended this book for the readers who loves to read.