My three year old daughter has loved the Richard Scary Great Pie mystery book, featuring three detective stories, and we both enjoyed the The Pizza Delivery Mystery tremendously. While none of the stories are perfectly composed and edited, I really thought this one wasn't as well developed in terms of showing "detective thinking" and coming to a logical conclusion based on information discovered. The story was a bit lame. Aside from that, Huckle and Sally are supposed to be kids, yet in the beginning of the story, they are driving vehicles?! It was interesting enough that my girl noticed they are going all over town by themselves. "Where is their Mommy?" "why are they alone?" But I had to tell her they must have been using special play cars/motor bike. Then she asked about seat belts. : ).
More important, or my biggest peeve is that the grammar is horrible! Even when characters aren't speaking there seems to be a lot of sentences that are poorly-written, or ending in prepositions. I'm not a teacher, but want to provide my child with a good foundation in English now, so she develops good speaking habits. This is not a good book for someone trying to learn English either, even conversational English. What really got me was that in one part of the book, when the kids ask if someone is alright, it's written "all right." Someone who is getting paid as an editor, who specializes in text, should have caught this error, if I did. I am a native English speaker, and don't have any kind of specialized expertise.
So, while my daughter overall liked it and wanted to have me read it to her several times, this book is not the usual Richard Scary quality. You might find it fine, but I can't recommend it.
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