A Wonderlandiful World (Ever After High)

by Shannon Hale

Age Range: 8 - 12 years

Grade Level: 3 - 7
Series: Ever After High (Book 3)
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (August 26, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031628209X
ISBN-13: 978-0316282093

Book Review:

By: Brittany Perez ( Oh My Bookness)

@ohmybookness

Bperezbookreviews@gmail.com

Review Date: November 6,2014

Ever After High;A Wonderlandiful Adventure by Shannon Hale is as the title Wonderlandifully puts it. The story you go on is a Wonderlandiful Adventure. For those who have not followed the Ever After High Series, you may be just discovering the unique and fun twist on classic fairly tales and rhymes like Humpty Dumpty, had a passing glance in a book store and it caught your attention, maybe seen it before or this new discovery may just may make you wonder how a bunch of fairy tales can come together.......Well I would be lying if I tell I was positive when I picked up the first book that it would be good, what caught me was the cover, I honestly was unsure about the story itself though but I picked it up and gave it a shot.

I have to say I was quite SURPRISED when I read the first book, Ever After High; Storybook Legends. I was surprised on how they were able to bring all these characters together from fables, rhymes, Fairytales, and ahem.... A story around where their children "relive their parents story" as history is repeating itself.

With a basic idea of how the books are formatted the storybook legends "fairytale children" are separated into rebels and royals because "rebels" want to choose their own destiny "royals" want to follow their story. From leaving book two, we enter the review of book 3, Ever After High;A Wonderlandiful Adventure. I was excited for the new plot twist of "Wonderland" or something "wonderland like" weaved into the stories plot with more focus on four Wonderlandian characters......and much more in book 3. We get more insight into Maddie Hatter (Madd Hatters Daughter), kitty Chechisre (of course daughter of the Chechisire Cat), Cedar Wood (Think Pinocchio!), and last but not least.............Lizzie Hearts ( daughter of the Oh-So-Wonderlandiful, Queen Of Hearts).

In book 3 of Ever After High; A Wonderlandiful Adventure, wonderland or something Wonderlandiful "like" comes to Ever After High thanks to a wonderland creature.....Jabberwakee. Nothing is the same in Ever After High, the narrator is speaking in "Wonderlandian" and Maddie Hatter becomes a step in narrator? The actual narrator acts as the Maddie Hatter we know a wonderlandian. Unfortunately what would seem like a good idea, conflict arising and and the only few wonderland characters can fix with the varpol sword turned south. I understand there is supposed to be a sense of confusion but

all seemed all over the place, incomplete. The story felt flat where there was a lot of potential. It started off quite good but fell apart towards the middle end, it lost focus, depth, the story fell flat it did pick up towards the end. The story had potential but I think the author for lost in trying to make it wild and whimsical.

About The Author:

New York Times best selling author Shannon Hale started writing books at age ten and never stopped, eventually earning an MFA in Creative Writing. After nineteen years of writing and dozens of rejections, she published The Goose Girl, the first in her award-winning Books of Bayern series. She has published fourteen books for young readers including the Newbery Honor winner Princess Academy and its two sequels, multiple award winner Book of a Thousand Days, superhero novel Dangerous, and the first three Ever After High novels. Her books for the adult crowd include Austenland (now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell) and Midnight in Austenland. Shannon and her husband Dean Hale have collaborated on several projects such as Eisner nominee Rapunzel's Revenge and early chapter book The Princess in Black. They spend non-writing hours corralling their four young children near Salt Lake City, Utah.

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