A fictional story of adventures of a brave frog in a travel journey which portrays a beautiful scenic descriptions of my country... I know it sounds wonderful. The descriptions of the beautifully shaped mountains and the various rituals and problems associated with the places mentioned in the journey along the way was wonderfully put.
But the adventure story was a little too unrealistic. I am not saying I have problem with a talking frog who decides to travel his country because I get the frog's narration and his point of view. What I personally disliked about this book was that everyone, literally everyone he meets in his journey is so positive and helpful. A tigress letting a frog travel around on her back! Spiritual enlightening! A pilot bending all his rules to let a frog travel in his shirt pocket!
Yes I get that it is a fiction and probably the moral is that you need to dream big but it did make me wonder if it would have been better as a non fiction book maybe?
Also I was not exactly sure about the genre of this book and the target audience. It feels too deep to be called a child's book and too bland to be a grown-up book.
But the adventure story was a little too unrealistic. I am not saying I have problem with a talking frog who decides to travel his country because I get the frog's narration and his point of view. What I personally disliked about this book was that everyone, literally everyone he meets in his journey is so positive and helpful. A tigress letting a frog travel around on her back! Spiritual enlightening! A pilot bending all his rules to let a frog travel in his shirt pocket! Yes I get that it is a fiction and probably the moral is that you need to dream big but it did make me wonder if it would have been better as a non fiction book maybe?
Also I was not exactly sure about the genre of this book and the target audience. It feels too deep to be called a child's book and too bland to be a grown-up book.
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