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Title: Must capturing a child's voice mean bad grammar and cumbersome phrasing?
Review: As an adult and a writer, I can't get past the first few pages of this. It's so badly written, I constantly find myself editing it in my head. Obviously, the style is intentional and designed to capture a child's voice but many books are able to do this without such lousy sentence structure. The main problem is that it is written in a style of oral language, including a lot of unnecessary "fill" words and conjunctions. If you're a teacher who cares about the written word, I'd highly recommend steering kids to a different series!
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