Title: The Labyrinth (The Lima Bear Stories)
Authors: Thomas Weck and Peter Weck
Illustrations by Len DiSalvo
Recommended for children 4-8 years-of-age
ISBN: 978-1-933872-04-9
Published by Lima Bear Press, LLC
50 pages, full color, 8.5″x11″
Released Aug. 2012
Hardcover with dust jacket
Suggested retail: $15.95
Review: The Labyrinth is part of a 10 – book series called The Lima Bear Stories. The characters repeat in the stories to allow children to become familiar with them and their personalities. Each story also carries and important message, like courage, honesty, tolerance, and in The Labyrinth, jealousy.
Princess Belinda Bean has recently been given the throne and is now the Queen of Beandom. The people of Beandom are happy about this, except Mean ol’Bean, who wants to be the King.
Mean ol’ Bean works to get Belinda into a magical labyrinth and hopes she will get lost in it, never to return. Thankfully, L. Joe Bean, one of her subjects, learns of Mean ol’ Bean’s plan and tries to intervene.
This cute story has well illustrated images and has a two page layout in the rear of the book with learning activities to do with your children, like learning more about labyrinths and an activity titled “Wind Watcher”, which involves notating different wind speeds (a factor in the adventure of this story) and how it affects objects.
The Labyrinth is the first of the Lima Bean Stories I have read. I think this book would be great for young readers or those being read to with its bright, colorful images and imaginative adventure. The “activity pages” are a nice extra to this title.
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book to produce this review. No other compensation was received. The thoughts and feelings expressed are my own.
