Review of the Shubhra Shah’s book – Leatherback and the strange place.
- Title – Leatherback and the Strange Place
- Author – Shubhra Shah
- Format – Paperback
- Print length – 192 pages
- Reading level: 6 – 8 years
- Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors (10 September 2019)
- Price- INR 250/-
Leatherback is a hundred and something years old, and finds queenie the cat and loro the parrot too rowdy! But she likes Sara, who once was the girl with no confidence. How Sara turned her weakness into strength is a story to tell.
One day, sara’s mother vanishes into thin air! The animals decide to solve the mystery that has left the seed household frozen. Leatherback and her team decide to investigate the suspects’ houses to look for Lolita.
The secret and the stories that they discover in the houses leave them shocked and startled. But where was Lolita? Who had taken her?
All leatherback had wanted was a quiet summer, but she had no idea that she was about to enter a whirlwind of mysterious secrets and adventures.
First of all, the thing that impressed me the most was how well the author has written a book for children that also holds the attention of adults too!
My 11 year old was the first to read this and was pretty thrilled! She finished it within an hour and wanted to share the story with me.I wanted to read it for the review so I begged her not to let out the story!
Going by the blurb, this is a story where a 100 year old tortie, a cat, a parrot look for Lolita – Sara and Neel’s mom who just disappeared one fine day!
This is a kids book and the author has done a good job of writing it in simple sentences but not too simple either. There are stories about the other characters in between and that makes it all the more interesting.
Until the very end,even I was not able to guess where and who had kept Lolita hidden and the reason behind her abduction was totally out of the blue!
Even more impressive are the fun activities in the book. There are pages for coloring, join the dots and even puzzles that the kids would love to do. And then there are nuggets of knowledge in the form of build your word power where a new word is English and other language are explained which in turn will enrich the kids vocabulary.
There are some illustrations in between that support the story line.
The story flows smoothly and is absolutely a delight to read
One of the best books for kids . You can read along with the younger kids or the slightly elder ones can read on their own. Even the adults can give it a try for it interesting story line.
5 stars for this wonderful book not just for the story but also for the fun activities like coloring and puzzles and also the small nuggets of information in between.
Shubhra Shah has earlier written Leatherback’s Big Win, that won the hearts of many children and adults alike.
Trained in psychotherapy, reiki and Pranic healing, she has addressed almost twenty-five thousand across various schools in Kolkata in the past few years.
Her favourite message to children is – “Be Kind, even to someone you don’t like.”.
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