Click

When we were kids the six of us entertained ourselves playing a game called But Luckily. One of us started with a simple story and then we'd pass the story from one player to the next by saying "But luckily. . . " Stories got wild fast--running from Antarctica to the surface of the sun or the main character changing names, gender, or (this was always our favorite and I'm not sure why) hair color.

I picked up Click thinking that the But Luckily game combined with an impressive list of authors (Linda Sue Park--A Single Shard, Gregory MacGuire--Wicked, and Eoin Colfer-Artemesis Fowl series--to name a few) would be a perfect combination. It was not what I expected.

Basically this is a book of short stories where a handful of main characters may or not make an appearance in stories that are very loosely connected by a famous photographer who is now dead. The writing styles, while good, are so different from each other that it takes most of a chapter to get into it and then, well, it's on to another author. Maybe my mind is just frazzled right now, but I couldn't follow the snapshot stories and changing voices. I put the book down in the middle and don't plan on picking it back up.

That being said, the second chapter about a girl who is half mermaid was my favorite of what I read. And, the ISBN number is hidden in something that I think has something to do with a camera or taking pictures. We talked about hidden ISBN numbers at Children's Literature Book Club this week, so I felt very in the know:

Not smart enough to get a better picture. This is my first time using our scanner.