Hello readers! This is my first review. I'm going to review a children picture book, Sir Small and The Dragonfly by Jane O'connor which published in 1988. Overall, I enjoy the story but not to the pictures. The text isn't either long with basic vocabulary, and we know the message to be conveyed by the author easily. I think it's good for children who still learn to read. However, the picture is so weird, and it doesn't really seem to fit and inconsistent. Some pictures of characters don't look the same as the previous picture.
The story began when Sir Small and his trusty ant came into the town of Pee Wee. I think it's the right thing to choose ants as a ride animal because an ant can lift 20 times its own body weight and the ants will protect its queen even if it has to die which means ant is a strong and reliable insect.
The picture illustrated that people in Pee Wee were very small, even smaller than an ant, apple, flower, bird and leaves. The author also mentioned in the text that made this is further clarified, "In Pee Wee the tallest person was no taller than a toothpick. The biggest house was no bigger than a shoe box." [Page 6]. In my opinion, the picture seems so weird; trusty ant looks bigger than an apple and a bird, and looks having same size with a flower.
In the page 30-31, the King and the villagers celebrated Sir Small's victory over the dragonfly and saved Lady Teena. The food looks normal, even chicken and fruits are also of normal size. Different from the previous picture. It seems that the illustrator is inconsistent with the picture. It'll be more realistic if the size is the same as the first picture because the author emphasized that the population of the city of Pee Wee was very small than a toothpick.
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