This picture book is a fun story about a bored young boy
called Peter who just wants to play a game. He asks all his family members but
none of them have time or are interested in playing a game with him. While
sitting in his room bored he says out loud ‘I wish I could think of something
fun to do.’ And then hears a strange husky voice that seems to come from
nowhere in particular. It says it is a Yoopasootix. Peter asks his entire
family what a Yoopasootix is but he does not get a promising answer from
anyone. He later finds out when it asks Peter to stand on his head. A strange
creature appears and makes a mess of the entire house, vanishing before anyone
can see him. Peter gets sent to his room for making all the mess but while he’s
in there the Yoopasootix makes a game in which they clean Peter’s room. After
this the Yoopasootix takes him to his home land called Funtasmagorical land and
they have fun for the rest of the day.
This book is a lot of fun as it gives life to an amazing and
strange new creature for children to imagine. The concept of being bored and
having to make your own fun is one that is commonly felt by students and
therefore the existence of a creature like the Yoopasootix gives kids the ideas
they need to create their own games in times like these. This story also
creates a type of mini world for students as they can escape the normal day to
day of being bored at home and live a fantasy game involving a Yoopasootix.
This book would be aimed at students around the age of year reception to year five as beyond that students are often distracted by technology
and can find fun with their friends easy enough. This book was very cute to
read and the Yoopasootix is like no fantasy creature I have ever seen before.
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