Elly Book 6 - “Snowy Day" Review

Elly Book 6 - “Snowy Day” is the newest story in the Elly the Reindeer series of illustrated books for both iPad and iPhone. Like all the Elly books, this story has lovely, stylized drawings we have come to love and expect from these apps. New to this book are endpages and a simple and sweet musical theme which will also be added to the other books through updates.

In Book 6, Elly and her usual gang of friends enjoy a cold winter day together and have a snowman or snowbeast-building competition. I am a fan of these stories in general, and I really like how in this book, good sportsmanship is shown between all those who take part in the competition, with a happy ending for all. These books don’t claim to have any profound messages, but the warmth and grace these characters show each other are things I am happy to expose my son to, and I feel that to some degree this rubs off on him as I see him interact with other kids with great kindness.

Like all the Elly books, Elly Book 6 is designed to be read to children and would also make a great first reader for kids. Among all the highly interactive apps available to my son, he asks me to read his Elly books often and simply loves the snowbeasts from Book 6.

I did notice that some of the dialog of Elly’s at the end may be a more British than an American way of speaking, but this is a minor point that did not overly faze my son, who has decided that he is Elly’s older brother!