My Storybook Favorites

I read quite a few previous students storybooks and these are three of my favorites that could possibly inspire my own storybook in the future. The creativity in the main idea of these three stories is what drew me to them. Dialogue was also a big part of all three, something that makes stories more interesting in my opinion.

Merlin's Mystery Men
This story book was one of the ones that popped up randomly on my main page when looking through storybooks and so I clicked on it. The title of the book, Merlin's Mystery Men is not totally self explanatory of what the story would be about... However the picture that accompanied the title was. The idea for the story is a clever one and I like that Merlin was the host of the dating TV game show. I had heard of Merlin before and I knew that he was magical of sorts but I didn't know much more than that. I enjoyed the way the story was set up on the website and even more I enjoyed that the dialogue included all the aspects you would hear on a real TV show. The story was visually appealing and that made it easy to read. The introduction was well written and left on a bit of a cliff hanger which made me want to read more. I thought the website was easy to navigate and the images used were fitting.

Screen grab of Merlin's Mystery Men storybook homepage

Monsters or Misunderstood
The title of this storybook gave a good preview of what the story would hold, and upon reading it I found my self thinking I too have wondered if monsters felt misunderstood. The introduction of the story set up a psychiatrist office scene and it was creatively written to preview the monsters stories but at the same time not give away too much. Each of the monsters had their own story section tab on the website and I liked the simple organization. There were pictures of the monsters and lots of dialogue between them and the psychiatrist, which was interesting. This storybook website was also divided into each character having their own tab and that made it easy to follow each ones story.

The Fairy Godmother Union Strike
So many of the storybooks that I read had such great themes that it left me thinking I wish I could do that for my story book- this was especially one of those. The title of this story was also a good preview of the story to come. I am very familiar with the stories of fairy godmothers since they are a key component of many fairy tales that I love and grew up watching or reading. This spin on the traditional story was really interesting and I enjoyed reading from the other perspective of the fairy godmothers. The introduction did a good job of setting the scene and introducing the main conflict. The storybook also had lots of pictures that helped to convey what was happening.