Noah is a little boy who when he was younger took a bite of an apple and it was yucky and would not eat any fruit or vegetables after that. His Father came up with the idea to send him to Forest Adventure Summer Camp because Noah loved Forest Adventures. It was also near farms with veggies, dairy and fruit. Noah goes exploring and enters the land of Fruitopia with the help of a giant butterfly. There he meets Queen Fruitana and gets into a battle to help her kingdom againest Dezezo the King of Disease Land. This is a cute story and I liked it alot. The illustrations were vivid and sure to keep younger children interested. I did feel the disease characters were a little scary for young children but overall this book is good for ages 5 up.

Well this was unfinishable – for all the reasons I appreciated, but nobody buying it would. It concerns a kid who has eaten one bad apple and therefore sworn off all fruits for life. His father therefore packs him off to a special farm-based summer camp, where – whether dad knew it or not – a mahoosive butterfly will lead curious kids through a secret doorway in a massive banyan tree into a world alternatively called Fruitopia or Frutopia, which, despite being peopled by legions of nasty-looking spear-carrying fruits is the good place. It is, however, threatened by the heinous Dezezo – which nobody will pronounce correctly (Disease-oh) the first time round – and his ideas, whereby polluting the youth of today with a lapse hygiene habit and bad attitudes to healthy eating will see no pesky kids in the way of him (and his wife) taking over the world.

This is just a joke. The artwork is splendid – AI at its best, which is not a problem; I'd rather a person get their ideas shown to people with the help of a computer than not at all. But this has no ideas whatsoever – or what it does have it has no knowledge of what to do with them. The trip through the doorway is foreshadowed in a way that not the worst author around has imagined. (To summarise, it says there is a sign and a door and the kid wants nothing in this world more than to go through the door – turn the page – he pulls the foliage off the sign instead.) A single bacterium is called a bacteria. We suddenly see mention of a koala, scaring the life out of us who didn't realise the setting was Australia. Even when it's not pestilent baddies, or butterflies, or Mr Mango, nobody speaks like a human has ever spoken.

This is one of the most well-intentioned books out there, gunning for health, hygiene and happiness where fruit-eating is concerned. It looks so good it is edible. But the text is the biggest hodge-podge of amateurishness and inanity. I don't want to type the words 'this was written by Chat GPT' but I know what the style of fiction large language models come out with, and this is by far the closest I've ever come outside of the (un)real thing. Part of me wanted to get to the end – I said it was impossible to finish this – but I was spending more time ad libbing my fringe comedy show about how awful it was as opposed to reading it. This seriously is the Glasgow Willy Wonka Land of kids' books – presented as a thing of wonder and proven to be a 100ml of stale lemonade. I loved my time with it. Nobody paying a cent in all seriousness for it would.

Five sequels are planned.

What a cute book about fruits! The illustrations are wonderful, and the text is entertaining enough, yet filled with useful information, it is presented in such a way that most young readers might indeed be encouraged and motivated to eat more yummy fruits!