Beck and the Great Berry Battle

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER :

I love all of the fairy books i would definetly recomend all of them!!! :]

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Very great outstanding!

This is a terrific book! It is highly recommended from me to fairy freaks like me!!!!

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Girls love it!

My girls just bought this book and another in the same series-they love it! I have never seen them read a chapter book so fast! They are 9 and 7. Once they started reading they couldn't put the books down. They are already begging for more from this new series. Luckily they can switch books now that they have finished-both girls finished their chapter books in less than 2 days! Bravo Disney!!!!

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Disappointed

We bought this book used.

The bad part of these girl-centric books is the Disney need to slap on a message. This particular book doesn't do well when it comes to establishing the fairy world, or even Beck as a character and instead focuses-a lot-on a great civil war between forest critters where the only casualties are berries. While fighting and battles themselves aren't funny by nature, even my six year old got bored with the whole fighting-over-a-misunderstanding premise, which she informed me was the case right away.
This book was just a huge miss with us. My son was bored out of his mind by the glittery cover and girly point of view (but we switch who gets to pick the books and it was my daughter's turn) and even my daughter didn't get nearly as excited or involved with the book as she usually does. She was hoping for more bits about taking care of animals (which was in fact why she picked this book up, because Beck is an animal-caretaker fairy). She also failed to connect with the tension at the climax because it involves a hawk as an uber bad guy and this past summer we met a few hawks at a presentation from the Louisville Raptor Rehabilitation group.
In the end we just all ended up feeling like this book was too little for its audience despite how much we wanted to like it.

Awsome, especially the detail of the animals and how Beck relates to them.

Loved the pictures, they were so colorful and funny. My daughter laughed when she saw the delightful illustrations. Beck is too intriguing, she relates better than any of the other animal talents and it just makes us want to read more about her. That is the whole reason that we got the next book about her and the sea.

My daughter did not like this one as much as the others

This story involves a "battle" between different animals. My girl did not enjoy the opening premise of the story because of that. She is on the younger end of the spectrum for this book, so that may not be a typical reaction. I love these books because my gifted grade K student can read these for a challenge, but the content is still age-appropriate and sweet, not sassy and violent. She still liked it overall and wanted to continue with the series, which she has now finished. It's good, just not quite as strong as the others in the series.

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