Emma Reads Crime

I am the wrong target audience for this book so I haven’t given this a star rating, however, I thought it was such a wholesome read!

Siblings Ava and Luke’s parents are going through a divorce and are communicating with each other through text messages. Luke discovers a mysterious box in the attic and they realise that in this box is a decades old, unsolved mystery!

I absolutely adore Janice Hallett’s mixed media style books. I really needed something easy and light to read so I thought I’d give her first childrens book a go!

It definitely did the trick and it was the perfect book to suit my mood. It’s very cleverly written.

If kids reading this are intimidated by all the text in the newspaper articles, diaries, police recordings etc, they can just read the text messages exchanges between Ava and Luke and still be able to follow along with the story. This does mean that if you read everything, you do get a lot of repetition.

I think the writing style with the mixed media elements is an excellent format to help encourage kids to read and hey, it’s also great for if you’re an adult too!

If you like the sound of this, it is available on Amazon here.

Do you enjoy mixed media in books?