Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Frozen II: Forest of Shadows by Kamilla Benko - ADVISABLE


Frozen II: Forest of Shadows by Kamilla Benko, 405 pages. Disney Press, 2019. $15.  Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.  

BUYING ADVISORY: EL – ADVISABLE; MS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

Anna wants to be more helpful to Elsa as Elsa runs the kingdom, but feels like Elsa doesn’t need her help.  When a blight starts to destroy the livestock and harvest of their kingdom, Anna thinks she can find help.  Anna finds a magical room with spells in it, and accidentally unleashes Anna’s worst nightmare, instead of finding a solution.  Anna’s nightmare is in the form of a wolf and it will take Anna and all her friends to find a way to stop the wolf from destroying Arendelle and hopefully heal the livestock and harvest.  

I love Frozen and was intrigued by the idea of an original story in this setting with good characters.  The story line is well done and there is a lot of action, but I wished there had been more of my favorite characters like Kristoff and Olaf.  My biggest debate with this book is the audience because I think elementary kids would be drawn to the characters, but the length and story line is better suited for middle school grades.  However, would middle school kids be willing to read a novel based on Frozen? The content is PG because the wolf is creepy and aggressive.  I love the cover.

Reviewer, C. Peterson 

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