| My 3rd grade son loved the first book, but has actually started to prefer the Rowan of Rin series to this one. We are finishing this series, and it is a great series to engage boys in reading "their" type of adventure stories. However, if your child is a more fluent reader, it is a little short on the rich details of more advanced writing. The characters don't encounter the "beasts" until the very end of the books and I guess after reading the Rowan books with him, we got a little spoiled. Still, if you have a 2nd grade level reader or around that, these can't be beat for boys. |