Review: Bowling Alley Bandit

Bowling Alley Bandit by Laurie Keller
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

AS fond as I am of Keller's picture books, and the original Arnie the Doughnut, this never quite worked for me. The jokes are corny, which is fine. But the story felt kind of all over the place. Tash only read a couple of pages before putting it down herself. It's hard to do early readers with engaging characters on a limited vocabulary. So, I hope Keller finds the magic and can produce books for this age. But this Arnie just gets a "meh."

And why is there only one female character in the whole thing?

Library copy.

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