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A review by sarawab65d
Who Done It? by Jon Scieszka
2.0
Full disclosure: I won this book from a Goodreads giveaway.
In "Who Done It?" a series of authors and illustrators must provide alibis for why they could not possibly have killed their highly unpleasant editor, Herman Mildew. Some alibis were quite funny and creative (Mac Barnett's was my personal favorite), but with over 80 authors and illustrators participating, there were bound to be some that I enjoyed somewhat less.
My main issue with this book is that there was not much cohesion among the stories. it would have been great if the participants had agreed beforehand on who found the body and where and how, since there were many mutually-exclusive claims. While this isn't a problem in and of itself, internal agreement would have tied the stories together far better. As is, the bulk of the book is a litany of excuses, which are mostly entertaining but provide no compelling reason to keep turning pages. Maybe I would have enjoyed the book more if I had read it in smaller doses. Maybe I'm just expecting too much from an anthology.
Overall, I'd give this book 2.5 stars. All of the stories are cute standalone reads, but there wasn't enough driving the book forward for me to love it.
In "Who Done It?" a series of authors and illustrators must provide alibis for why they could not possibly have killed their highly unpleasant editor, Herman Mildew. Some alibis were quite funny and creative (Mac Barnett's was my personal favorite), but with over 80 authors and illustrators participating, there were bound to be some that I enjoyed somewhat less.
My main issue with this book is that there was not much cohesion among the stories. it would have been great if the participants had agreed beforehand on who found the body and where and how, since there were many mutually-exclusive claims. While this isn't a problem in and of itself, internal agreement would have tied the stories together far better. As is, the bulk of the book is a litany of excuses, which are mostly entertaining but provide no compelling reason to keep turning pages. Maybe I would have enjoyed the book more if I had read it in smaller doses. Maybe I'm just expecting too much from an anthology.
Overall, I'd give this book 2.5 stars. All of the stories are cute standalone reads, but there wasn't enough driving the book forward for me to love it.