This book is just so much fun to read
352910
This book is just so much fun to read. My 4yo adores it and we read it and giggle every night.
1008696
Simply spectacular, an absolute joy to read.
3680590
This book is so delightful!  It is not only fun and entertaining to read, it's loaded with opportunity to teach on every page. I smiled more and more as each page turned.
4705332
This book was so much fun to read. Many times, I was reading about what I thought was a serious event, when all of a sudden, Sammy and Vicki made me laugh so hard! Just recently, I was blessed to meet these wonderful authors and can see why the book is what it is. Buy yourself a copy...you won't be disappointed.
2285887
This book is so much fun to read and kids roar with laughter at the silliness.
299902
Fabulously fun book for all ages...if you're reading it to your kids, you'll just need to edit out a word on the last page ;-)
712988
Don and Audrey Wood team up again to present a story that is fun to read and fun to have read to you.  The pictures are delightful for young kids and adults alike.  The story is amusing and the ending is just what a child wants to hear (the only child in the story ends up saving the day)  The writing is rhythmical without being monotonous.
Should be on every kids shelf.
1717914
The book is just plain fun to read as well as being a great cookbook.
4521613
This just might be the most fun Ive had reading a book in a while. Its pure escapism, done really well.

Ellie Hudson, an Olympic-class archer, is in Nottingham, England, for a high-level competition. She follows a man strangely dressed in a friars robe into the tunnels below Nottinghams castle and finds herself mysterious transported back in time to the late 1100s. Ellie has to figure out how to stay safe, avoid doing anything to change history, and find a way back to her own time. But all of that is easier said than done, especially since she begins her adventures by almost getting arrested by the shire reeve of Nottingham just for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. In fact, the shire reeve is an all-around bad guy, oppressing the good people of the area with high taxes and harsh punishments. In an era rife with that kind of injustice, whats a twenty-first century archer to do?

Ellie is, without a doubt, the perfect person to time travel back to twelfth-century England. As an archer, she can defend herself. Ellies father is a theoretical physicist, her mother a professor of medieval historyso she can accept the idea of time travel and knows a lot about the period she winds up in. Ellie conveniently speaks both English and French. (All she would need is to know Latin, and she would have the medieval trifecta.) Shes slender enough to pass as a boy, so shes able to disguise herself when needed. All of this is so perfect that it would strain belief if the reader let it.

But this reader didnt, because Ellies adventures are just so terrifically fun to follow that its easy to ignore the unlikely elements of the story. Ellie is brave and quick-witted, and many of her reactions flow naturally from those qualities. (Jump off a bridge? Sure, why not, if its the best avenue of escape?) She maybe doesnt always make the best choices, but she owns up to her mistakes and works to correct them. Ellie is also sarcastic and funny, which makes her even more likeable. It does take her a little too long to twig onto the fact that SHE is Robin Hood, though. Its more than halfway through the book before she realizes, as she puts it, I had become a fictional character.

The author does a couple of things with the story that I especially appreciated. First, she acknowledges that its hard for Ellie and the people she meets to understand each other, which is something time travel books don't always get right. For a speaker of modern English to try to understand Middle English would be something like listening to someone speak English with a heavy foreign accent, completely mangling some words, and randomly inserting unfamiliar words from their own language. (For example, the word is would have been pronounced more like ees, so even simple words would sound different.) She still makes it a lot easier for the characters to translate back and forth than it would be, but at least she doesnt completely gloss over the problem.

The author also avoids the problem of romantic entanglements. Theres attraction, sure. But Ellie knows that it would be a bad idea to get involved, and the men she meets have their own issues to deal with. It was really refreshing to read a young adult novel where the focus remains firmly on the action rather than having the main characters get distracted by going googly-eyed over each other.

Id highly recommend this book for anyone looking for a thoroughly fun, relatively quick read.

An eARC of this novel was provided by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
1136551
This is a delightful read that will have you laughing out loud from the first page.
1148827
I prefer the hardcover edition, but this is such a fun book.
4904002
This book is creative, interesting and fun to read.
468880
I was hooked the minute I started reading this book. The poems and illustrations are wildly creative, witty, and fun to read. I even caught myself laughing out loud at times. This is a book that can be read over and over as the poems and illustrations have alot to offer no matter your mood. I can't wait until my daughter is a little older to read this to her.
206955
I had an amazingly fun time reading this book. The characters are engaging and relatable the world is fun. I can't wait go back.
4083793
Eryn Scott is a really fun writer to read.  She's got a great voice in her characters that shines with an intelligence that will make you laugh.  The story takes turns you don't see coming, twists you back around, and brings you home to a happy place where you just can't help but tell your friends, "Hey you got to read this, it just cracked me up"  If you really want to read a book that's going to make you smile, then this is the book for you!
4411571
Very enjoyable read -- the kind of book that just makes you feel good when you read it
4430939
This series is so much fun to read. And I love the characters paired with the pictures. A great book for all ages.