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poisonenvy's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
4.0
I finished this book more than a month ago and had lofty goals at the time of going back and individually reviewing each short story, but I'm gonna accept that that's just not going to happen now.
Overall, I liked this collection a lot more than I was expecting to. This anthology was put together for children (I'm assuming between the ages of 9 - 12ish), and so I was expecting to feel like I was reading something far too young for me. I should've known better than to expect that from Bruce Coville, who wrote the Unicorn Chronicles that I read in my 20s and still absolutely loved.
Bruce Coville's first story in this collection made my eyes well up. Ray Bradbury's story was, as usual, fantastic. There were only one or <i>maybe</i> two stories where I went "I'm too old to really enjoy this" but the rest of them did not condescend at all, IMO. Sci Fi readers of all ages are likely to very much enjoy this short collection of short stories!
Overall, I liked this collection a lot more than I was expecting to. This anthology was put together for children (I'm assuming between the ages of 9 - 12ish), and so I was expecting to feel like I was reading something far too young for me. I should've known better than to expect that from Bruce Coville, who wrote the Unicorn Chronicles that I read in my 20s and still absolutely loved.
Bruce Coville's first story in this collection made my eyes well up. Ray Bradbury's story was, as usual, fantastic. There were only one or <i>maybe</i> two stories where I went "I'm too old to really enjoy this" but the rest of them did not condescend at all, IMO. Sci Fi readers of all ages are likely to very much enjoy this short collection of short stories!
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