There are plenty of positive lessons about family, friends, teamwork, negotiation, and coexistence. Also the vocabulary is rich, as are the details about the plants and animals who call the Bravelands home. The descriptions are vivid, the characters appealing (or appalling, in the case of villains), the story exciting, and the stage set for many adventures and relationships in volumes to come.
Parents need to know that best-selling writing/editing syndicate " Erin Hunter" (the Warriors series), is in top form in Broken Pride, the first volume in an animal fantasy series featuring a young lion, a baboon, and an elephant on the African savanna. Get started CloseĪ few references to dung, especially to describe opinions you don't agree with, and rumps, usually turned on someone in contempt.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. It's not as if we'd be breaking the Code - we'd be protecting the troop!'"ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. "'And think of the future enormous lion while you kill him,' pointed out a sulky-looking senior. I know he's little, but kill him quickly and it won't be unkind.' "'He'll grow huge,' complained another young male. Perhaps most scary are the speeches by characters who want to kill others and justify it all in the name of the greater good, as here, where the baboons are discussing what to do with lion cub Fearless, whom one of them rescued: Vultures, bones, and dead bodies (of animals) are important in the story. Then there's just plain nature "red in tooth and claw," as predators hunt and kill prey in one scene Fearless stalks, kills, and eats a terrified zebra and savors every bloody moment. Younger and/or sensitive kids may find the violence, grief, and betrayal too much to take here: Several young characters of different species have seen their parents killed over the course of the story, several other adults, included beloved ones, are murdered.
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