A few times the comedy veers into the category we do not enjoy seeing where school is joked about being a drag. This includes comments like, “someone’s stealing all the fun out of life, much like our math teacher.” While this is common in books, movies and shows it is unfortunate. In a similar light, there are scattered single instances of words like “shut-up”, “jerk”, “blockhead”, “not too bright”, “Dr. Weirdo”. There are a couple of drawings that border on being a bit strange and one that shows a few skeletons, but these are meant to be funny, now scary. At the amusement park the name is “hurling rivers”, you see a haunted house, and there is a game called “dunk the nun”. Again, attempting to be funny, but unfortunate.
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Psalm 101:3
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Quick Answer: Recommended
Concern Level: Medium-Low
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Snoop Troop – It Came from Beneath the Playground
VERDICT: Recommended
(with caution)
Concern Level: Medium-Low
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Our Thoughts
This is a funny book that is a light read with pictures on nearly every page. For a funny title, there is lower amount of concerning content to know about and weigh for your child than most and it is by far the exception to the mostly clean comedy. This is also a mystery with clues given as you read. All in all, this should appeal to a lot of kids. As a bonus there are few fun activities at the end of the book as well.
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Every newly independent reader will be rolling on the floor--and has a chance to solve the mystery--in this wildly wacky mash-up of chapter book and graphic novel, with art on every page, interactive seek-and-find elements, and more! In this first book of the series, fourth-grade detective Logan Lang is facing the biggest case of her career. Someone--or something--is stealing everything that kids love. Toys! The amusement park carousel! Even the school playground! All of them sucked underground without a trace. Logan will have to team up with her longtime nemesis and super cop wannabe Gustavo Muchomacho if she wants to stop this subterranean scoundrel. With her serious doodling skills and his arsenal of high-tech sky mustaches, they'll race against the clock to unearth a master criminal. Bonus backmatter is loaded with extra puzzles, word jumbles, instructions for drawing suspects, and doodle activities!
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Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts. I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word. I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.
— Psalm 119:97-104