{"id":1211,"date":"2018-08-23T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2018-08-12T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:44:16","slug":"book-bobbie-mendoza-saves-the-world-again-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/23\/book-bobbie-mendoza-saves-the-world-again-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (Again) (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1529052174l\/37677968.jpg\" alt=\"Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (Again)\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" \/>Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (Again)<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018<br \/>\nAuthor: Michael Fry &amp; Bradley Jackson<br \/>\nLength: 272 pages<\/p>\n<p>***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY***<\/p>\n<p>As can be implied from the title,\u00a0<em>Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (Again)<\/em>\u00a0is the follow-up to an earlier appearance of the titular character in\u00a0<em>The Naughty List<\/em>. One does not need to have read\u00a0<em>The Naughty List<\/em>\u00a0to understand what happened to Bobbie since this book does a pretty good\u2014if not too thorough\u2014re-telling of the events of the first book that would eventually lead her to save the world (again). While I\u2019m sure the previous book was focused on Christmas-related shenanigans, this book opens up the potential for weird, random, and bizarre via the same inter-dimensional portals used previously.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that I was impressed with this book\u2019s ability to seamlessly intertwine verbal narrative with accompanying pictures. It\u2019s not quite a picture-book, but it\u2019s also not a chapter book either. It\u2019s a hybrid of the two. While I\u2019m assuming the illustrations will be a little more polished for the final release (I was given an advanced reader copy to review), the drawings still conveyed the necessary information in a rough and squiggly way that seemed to work well for the type of plot presented here.<\/p>\n<p>Intended for kids in grades 3 through 7,\u00a0<em>Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (Again)<\/em>\u00a0pulls out all the stops when it comes to the randomness of its comedy. From unicorns to dinosaurs to elves, the silliness of the situations will probably make most children laugh. Parts felt a little immature for 7<sup>th<\/sup>-graders, but other sections had words and concepts that were perhaps a little too complicated for 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-graders. I\u2019d probably say that this book would be appropriate for grades 4 through 6. Parents might have to suffer through the fart jokes and random plot points (without a strong main point or lesson behind them), but at least it\u2019s a somewhat entertaining book to read.<\/p>\n<p>A book filled with the \u201crandom\u201d comedy that appeals to kids, I give\u00a0<em>Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (Again)<\/em>\u00a03.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (Again) Year: 2018 Author: Michael Fry &amp; Bradley Jackson Length: 272 pages ***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY*** As can be implied from the title,\u00a0Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (Again)\u00a0is the follow-up to an earlier appearance of the titular character in\u00a0The Naughty List. One does not need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,54],"tags":[1020,1445,55,1444,95,1446,1443,1403,8],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-book","tag-1020","tag-bobbie-mendoza-saves-the-world-again","tag-book","tag-bradley-jackson","tag-childrens-book","tag-illustrated","tag-michael-fry","tag-middle-grade","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}