Unfortunately By Alan Durant & Simon Rickerty

This book is based on the story-telling game 'Fortunately.. Unfortunately..', where one player has to come up with a fortunate scenario, then the other player has to come up with another unfortunate scenario to trip the first person up. My girls had never heard of this game before, but since reading the book have been playing it non-stop!

The book starts with a boy walking happily through the jungle on his own, when unfortunately.. he meets a big scary lion. Fortunately.. he finds a tree to climb and hide in. Unfortunately.. a snake sees him and tries to eat him. (You get the idea!)

This went on and on throughout the book much to the childrens' delight and has a funny ending instead of a normal happy ending which my girls found very amusing.

The illustrations in the book are nice and clear and the story overall is lighthearted and silly.

I really enjoyed the way that this book sparked my childrens' imagination and led to lots of story-telling and game playing, with extremely clever answers. My eldest daughter even managed to get me into an unfortunate situation that I couldn't think of a way out of!

Fortunately.. my girls really enjoyed it and would like to read it again.

Unfortunately.. (for me) they'll probably want it every day!
   

My score: 4/5   Kids score: 5/5

Let me know what you think!