#Dork diarie homework series#

Given a plot that does a bit more than mirror previous adventures, given a bit more comedic craft as regards what are called 'callbacks', and perhaps given a plot covering a bit more than a month (just how many of these are there going to be?!) I might have rated this at the regular four stars.

#Dork diarie homework series#

Here the series treads a little on old ground, with a public embarrassment for Niki, and the horrid school bitch causing problems, but it is jaunty enough to include typically American Holiday mawkishness, old-fashioned farce elements and decent modernisms that don't grate, in a style that never looks dull on the page. The books do not preach the use of this as a way of writing, and the 'proper' text is always well done. Some cynics would point out that you don't need so many smileys, so many OMG!!s and suchlike Internet abbreviations of the language, but this is purely there for realism.

a little too spangly, a little too twee, a little too SQUEEEEEE!!. The only reason that has hit the cinemas and this hasn't is that girls and boys make his audience, while this franchise remains.

There are still no real flaws to this series, and I see no problem still in comparing this with the male counterpart, featuring the Wimpy Kid. I'm not sure too about the way Ms Russell is drawing her characters with black arms and large white hands - I've not noticed it before, but it seems to be a way to point to Disney and say 'hey, you draw mice like that, now come and make a moving image version of this!'. Similarly, there's a whimsical maxim courtesy of Niki and her homework habits, which should have been given a resulting grade or something, and at the moment is just left hanging. The very amusing comedy set piece midway through seems to be apropos of nothing, until it most clearly fits hand in hand with the ending, but nothing is done to point that out - one sentence would do it, and it needn't have been patronising. It seems to follow straight on from the third but also refers back to book 3 and a half, somehow. The adult critic can begin to see a little bit of a laissez-faire attitude in this fourth entry to the series. What's worse, is that the shelter has a deep meaning for her hunky friend Brandon. It's just a shame then that Niki suits ice-skating as well as chocolate suits building barbecues. Also, if she can perform well she will keep an endangered animal charity working for some months. OMG!! Niki's gym class is doing ice-skating this term, and anyone who presents a display at a public charity event will get a straight A. Wikipedia may be copied with the proper acknowledgment, but some need tweaking to work properly on Wikia, so use a Wikia one if possible.Summary: The fourth adventure in this amusing series - not perhaps the most well-crafted, but still a breezy joy at best.Templates are generally shown with the format required to use the template (e.g.

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