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middle_name_joy's review against another edition
3.0
Beautiful illustrations, but "The House That Jack Built" format was too vauge for my tutoring audience of smart 2nd graders. It glossed over the facts of the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, and the students are well-versed in all that. They were more interested in talking about how 100 people could fit into the hull of the Mayflower. This book is better suited for younger readers who still rely heavily on pictures to tell the story.
ashleysbooknook's review against another edition
2.0
This was a weird book. We were all kind of confused by the rhythm of it. It’s all a poem, but it’s structured weird and repeats in a way that doesn’t make sense. And the rhyming is forced, so the information doesn’t come through. I’d have to re-read each page in my head and then explain to the kids what it was talking about. Then they noticed it was repeating....and it was supposed to....it just didn’t make sense......just a strange book!
inlibrisveritas's review against another edition
2.0
It has some very pretty illustrations but the text itself, while nicely done, does repeat itself. So in that aspect it's a bit of a boring 'story'...and of course it's not really accurate, but I don't really expect a picture book to go into the reality of the situation.
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