Alligator Boogie

Alligator Boogie is a really fun, adventurous book. I loved all the various illustrations, which were bright and fun. I liked the story and all the different animals featured.

Thank you Netgalley and BookBuzz for a Digital Advanced Reader’s Copy in exchange for an honest review.


This is the kind of book I loved to read when I was a young reader and made me enjoy the time I spent with books. Indeed, Alligator Boogie reminds me of both Geronimo Stilton series and Scooby-Doo series. And that's for me is good because I hope children will find that spark of joy in reading with this book.

The story is simple and cute but everything is embellished with beautiful sketches of the text and engaging and evocative graphic look. Which is important if your public are young readers that are starting to read, because I think you have to keep drawing their attention and at the same time incite their creativity.
Something I really liked but at the sime time was surprised to find is a little glossary at the end of the book explaining some of the words used in the story.

In the end, for me this is the perfect book to gift to children: either in order to read the book with them or to let them discover it by themselves and start reading on their own since the book features easily allow it.
As someone whose their mothertounge isn't English, I also recommend this book to who wants to start reading in English, I would say the level is an A2.

Finally, as an Italian, I was pleased to read that a character has a "friendly Italian accent".

Answering the call to adventure! A fun family friendly modern day fantasy. Looking forward to seeing more in the series.

Alligator Boogie is an early chapter book that consists of 4 short chapters. It tells the story of twins Jesse and Josie and their older (teen) brother Jack. On a hot day when the AC is not working, the three siblings head out to the beach. When Josie and Jesse are swimming they almost get eaten by an alligator, but they soon realize it was all a misunderstanding because he is a pescatarian, he doesn't eat preteens! Each of the four chapters is only a few pages long, has lots of pictures and some fun expressive text to emphasize important words and add an element of visual interest to the story. I think that young readers will love this book and can definitely see it in my Grade 3 classroom library. It is visually stimulating, the content is funny and interesting and it is a nice transition text between picture books and chapter books, everything young middle grade readers want and need! I would recommend this book to parents and teachers of children in the 6-10 range. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book!