Thunder-Boomer! by Shutta Crum

I believe the best part of the book is the illustrations and the placement of words to the pictures. It's understandable that the author really wanted the reader to see the story visually instead of just reading the words. On some pages there is a huge picture with words on the side and also noises on the picture: the plap, plap, plap of the boys feet hitting the pond or the rumble-brum-brum of the thunder. The reader understands what is happening in the picture. On other pages there are pictures that are split up into almost cartoon like sections where words are placed under the pictures describing what is happening.

The only problem I had with this book was that there were too many words. It was very hard to keep interest in the story with that many pages for words. All I really wanted to do was look at the pictures and I could understand the story from just the pictures. By the end of the book that is what I was doing: skipping over words and looking at the pictures.