Any parent can see how well DiscWorld holds up the mirror to life in how Sam Vimes plays with his son as he reads this book. So liberties were taken to make it more appealing to a general audience and for parents to read to children.Īs a father reading this book to my kid: It works well. "Where's My Cow" is fairly central to "Thud", so to see the book it self was somewhat rewarding, but a strict rendition of "Where's my Cow" would have been fairly lame. There is a new artist illustrating "Where's My Cow?", and this artist's style doesn't (I feel) work as well for DiscWorld characters. The illustrations were a big hit with the young lady, and she was particularly taken with the pet dragons.Īs an addendum to "Thud!", by the same author. And that Mom caught Dad taking liberties with the book went over very well (the girl involved laughed so hard she nearly threw up). She was able to follow the idea of a dad reading a book to his child as the theme of the book, and clearly understood that Dad (in the book) was taking liberties with the text. No, despite being a product of Terry Pratchett's imagination, I didn't 'love' this one, but it worked well on several levels.Īs a kid's book: Taking this one up against a tough audience, a remarkably intelligent and precocious 4-yr old girl, it did very well.
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