Jades Children Story

LuLu and Lyle by Jade Henry was an adorable children’s story. The story is about a little girl LuLu who wants to become friends with Lyle, the mean boy across the street. She likes him a lot and doesn’t want to do anything to contradict their friendship. When Lyle asked LuLu to hang out she was quite surprised but unfortunately for her Lyle was mean to her. He would boss her around and push her and laugh when she cried. Finally toward the end LuLu decides to no longer be friends with Lyle because of how mean she is to him. The tension between the two characters is created when LuLu gets tired of Lyle pushing her around and to resolve this dilemma she stops hanging out with him and never speaks to him again. The illustrations describe how the characters look and there are pictures that relate to their personality. The images go along well with the text and Jade went a little more into detail. The moral of the story is clearly posted in the back of the book; do not let others treat you the way you do not want to be treated. I think the age group of this book is for six to eight year olds because the lesson is a bit more complex. The strongest feature of the book is the actual story line, it flows quite well and the tension build up is strong. I think the only actual issue of the story is how long the text is on each page, you can’t be too short or too long. Other than that it’s a great story, good job!