nuttyrachy 's review for:

Peanut Jones and the Twelve Portals: from the creator of Draw with Rob by Rob Biddulph, Rob Biddulph

4.0

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I have really enjoyed this children's series so far. It's right up my street with the drawing element and I think all the characters are great. I did wonder if I could read this book first before the first one in the series (Illustrated City) but I soon found that it was A LOT better reading it in order. This book does a good job trying to explain everything for those who maybe decide to read them out of order, but for me, I'm very glad I decided to wait for the first one to start reading before this one. If I'd not read them one after the other then I think the brief explanations would've been useful as reminders only, but not reliable enough to "fill me in on what I'd missed", you know?

I love the illustrations, although I wonder how this book would be as an audio because there was one point where they put a puzzle together and the answer is revealed when you turn the page and look at the illustration, but the words themselves never described what you could see? Well, at least not straight away, you'd probably gather after a paragraph or 2 what it was.

I look forward to the new one coming out in September and I feel the little reminders of characters or what happened in the last 2 books will definitely come in handy when I've had to wait over 6 months!