JasonKoivu

*Read by me, reviewed by my niece*

All by Myself is the day-in-the-life story of a young, scruffy monster-boy, who shall go nameless, because his name was never given. He gets up, gets himself dressed and fed, "helps" feed and play with his sister, plays by himself, "helps" his parents, then hits the hay. Not a lot of nail-biting excitement here, but there's some laughs to be had.

Niece Emma (who turned 4 on Saturday with an off-the-chain party...yeah, there was face painting) didn't want to read this right off, preferring to be wrapped up in a blanket like a burrito, but as soon as I began she hustled on over and demanded I start from the beginning. Since I was only two pages in and each page contains one sentence of about four to six words, I was okay with it. But that ain't happening if she tries to pull that crap when we're a tenth of the way through Anna Karenina.

Overall she enjoyed it. Her favorite parts were when a mouse sailed a boat across a puddle and when the monster-boy tried to give his teddybear a drink of water. In fact, that last part put a devilish grin on her face and I'm guessing her mom's going to find soaked stuffed animals about the house soon.