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In my kindergarten the students love reading stories that involve them such as "Don't touch this book" and "Press here". I wanted to write a book that had a story the children could interact with. Help Me Reader, is an interactive story where the children help solve mazes and puzzles.
Reviewed by Ana-Maria Leasa for Readers' Favorite
Help Me Reader by J. W. Hurcomb and Jason Pacliwan is an interactive children’s book where the main character is Salsa and her goal is to reach home safely and happily. On each page, there is a short text that encourages the reader to interact with the story in different ways, together with different activities, games, puzzles, and mazes. These range from a maze in the forest where you need to help Salsa to find the right path, getting across a river where you need to be careful that she doesn’t fall in the water, helping the sad bunny, climbing the tricky and dangerous mountain, and a dark and scary cave. Yours and Salsa’s adventure will be full of excitement. Will you be able to help Salsa reach the safety of her house?
As I read Help Me Reader by J. W. Hurcomb and Jason Pacliwan, I could not help but see the resemblance to Dora the Explorer in the way that it made me interact with the book so that the story could move on. Although I am not a child anymore, because of the high quality of Jason Pacliwan’s illustrations and the well-written and concise text, I found myself drawn into this book and ended up resolving all the puzzles, tasks, and mazes that the story provided. I could say that it awakened the child in me. This is an amazing and well-done type of children’s book.
