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Reviews of: Rupert Bear Annual 2009by
Reviews What a shame. What a shame and what a lost opportunity. The artwork is not a patch on the standard of John Harrold's. Only 3 stories - to last all year?! If it wasn't for the thick padded cover (the publishers really do think we're mugs) the book would feel as substandard as it looks. 2009-01-06 A very substandard effort Rupert Bear Annual 2009 I read the first customer review of this Annual last September. I've just read the latest three reviews. I assume all in between are adversely critical, as they should be. I agree wholeheartedly with everything I've read. The publication has to be one of the disappointments life throws at us. I've been collecting Rupert Annuals for over 30 years and now have a complete collection of the 73 editions. How I regret getting rid of my early childhood editions as obtaining replacement originals has sometimes proved expensive! Unless the publishers acknowledge their gross error made this time, I shall seriously consider terminating my collection forthwith. Hopefully all reviewers, and other purchasers, will write in protest to Express Newspapers, as I intend to do. 2009-01-02 Oh no... I'm not going to buy it now. I have the Rupert Bear Annuals going back to when I was born, thirty-five years ago and I would say it's actually my favourite gift of Christmas: the present that means Christmas to me, normally brought to me by Father Christmas himself. I would read one story a night until it was finished, that's how much I savoured them. Infact my stocking size was based upon the original size of the annuals! Now I have children of my own, I read them my old annuals, indeed I have tonight. It was the storybook of their choice - 'Rika and the Reindeer'. I was one of the many lucky people to meet John Harrold at his signing of the Rupert Bear annual 2002. He put the whole year into producing the books and helped with storyline ideas too. What a shame he isn't illustrating them anymore. As for making them appeal to the younger reader, well my children are just 4 and 6 and I've been reading the books to them for quite a while. In my opinion children like lots of detail. 2008-12-30 Where is the real Rupert? The Rupert Annual has been on my Christmas list for more years than is good for me. When I received this year's I thought the giver had purchased an inferior pirate copy in error, but no, this is what is offered! Please, if the publisher and author cannot do it properly, then it's best not done at all. 2008-12-30 Very Disappointing The cover is delightful but, oh dear, the contents are a long way short of the incredible annuals that John Harrold drew, Gina Hart coloured (apart from the cover & endpapers which Harrold did) & Ian Rob inson or James Henderson wrote. In a recent interview in "Artists & Illustrators" Stuart Trotter wrote how he used an Apple Mac & arranged the composition using Photoshop. Hopefully, he will have a lot more time next year but the lack of background detail is something that makes the images look rather unfinished. However, the cover indicates that Stuart is a talented artist and if the Rupert Annual which apparently was no 30 in the best-selling annuals list according to Bear Alley is to resume its full glory and potential then surely the load needs to be shared - how can one person with a little help from Anna Bowles produce what it took 3 highly talented individuals to do in the past, once Alfred Bestall retired? 2008-12-29 |
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