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Title: The Frozen Aisle
Subtitle: Carl's Odyssey, Book 1
Author: Dorian Innes, Dan Greene
Narrator: Dan Greene, Dorian Innes, Nicole Wright, Karen Chae
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-30-14
Publisher: Carl's Odyssey
Genres: Kids, Ages 5-7
Publisher's Summary:
This isn't your grandma's audiobook!
Carl's Odyssey #1: The Frozen Aisle is the first book in the adventure book series about a little bulb of garlic who's lost in the grocery store and goes on an epic adventure to get back home.
Follow the adventures of our hero, Carl B. Garlic, with amazing voice acting and hilarious sound effects that really bring the story to life!
Carl B. Garlic, our unlikely hero, has no idea how he got lost, he just wants to go home! In order to be shown the way out of The Frozen Aisle, he must first help the frozen aisle's citizens (waffles, tater tots, french fries, corn dogs, ice creams, popsicles, chicken nuggets, frozen pizzas, burritos, little pea, and other frozen vegetables, etc.) take a final stand against the roughest, rawest steaks in the whole store - The Porterhouse Gang!
Written in the vein of classic adventure stories like Pixar's Toy Story, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Spongebob Squarepants. Kids ages 0-100 will love this exciting, funny and charming tale. Oh, the places you'll go with our little hero!
Members Reviews:
One of those Annoying To Be Continued Endings, Ruins a Great Story
This is a pretty cool tale about Carl, a clove of garlic that has somehow ended up in the frozen aisle of the supermarket and now lost wants to go home. Befriended by frozen waffles, and other products from the frozen food community who are being bullied in the style of an old Western movie by some porterhouse steaks who force them to harvest ice cubes and hand them over in return for their town not being destroyed. Carl decides to help out these kind strangers. Two things let this book down the first is it pretty badly formatted as a Kindle book, the illustrated page only takes up the middle third of the Kindle screen in landscape and top half in portrait. This means you can't appreciate the absolutely top class brilliantly created colourful illustrations and makes the text a lot smaller to read which appears on top of part of each image. The other thing is something I hate in picture books, it's fine in a Saturday morning free to air cartoon, that a child can just tune into the next week, but for a picture book I don't think it's an acceptable practice. That's the To Be Continued..... ending that interrupts the story, so you've got to buy the next book to find out what happens next. Of course the authors' are relying on pester power of children so you'll fork out your hard earned money for the next book (which oddly isn't even published yet at the time of this review). I just think that's unethical for a children's book. The stupid thing is, it's a great book, and a great world full of great characters, kids (and adults) would have wanted to get the next book in the supermarket series anyway to see what Carl or other food characters get up to next based on the high quality of this first book. The authors could have wrapped up this storyline instead of leaving it open ended.
The plot itself isn't that original, I mean if your kids have recently seen Wreck it Ralph, they're going to compare the two, Ralph was certainly the retelling of a classic plot itself and nothing original either. I wouldn't compare the book to Star Wars or Indiana Jones like the authors do on this product page, as it isn't similar to those movies at all.
