Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman

   

     This six weeks I read Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman. The book was first published in Australia by Penguin Books Australia in 1999 and the first America edition was in 2004. This book is fictional and written about a Cain toad and his cousin. The toads names are Limply and his cousin is Goliath. They go on an adventure to figure out why humans hate them so much. They want to put a stop to humans running them over.   

     The story is told in third person and follows Limpy and his cousin. The book starts off in a swamp near a highway. The highway is where the toads go to eat insects but get ran over by cars. Limpy did not understand why the humans were running them over. Limpy is scared for is family because he does not what them to die. Limpy has a collection of dead relatives in his room and he did not want to ad his mom, dad or sister to it. Toad Rage is a comedy book and an adventure novel. After reading the book I feel that it was fit for children. Morris Gleitzman kept my attention by keeping Limpy and Goliath in danger. The author’s style is to keep the character in danger. This keeps your attention by wanting to know what happens next. The author also keeps your attention through humor but sadly it's not that funny.

       This book affected me because every time I see a toad it will remind me of this book. This book didn't change any ideas about toads because I didn't think much about toads anyways. Throughout the book the humans judge toads by their looks and not how they act or who they are. I personally do not judge people at school on how they look but on who they are. This book did not bring up any memories of other authors or books, because I do not usually picked this genre of book.    

         This is a good book if you like funny adventurous books. I thought the ending could be more creative because Limpy never solve the problem of humans hating them. They only solve the problem of being squashed by cars. They did this by pole-vaulting out of the way of cars. I think the book would have been better for a younger audience.

    

  

Trey Wood   

Dec 18/2013

 ***3/5