File Size: 5976 KB
Print Length: 18 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0307980715
Publisher: Nickelodeon Publishing; Stk edition (August 9, 2012)
Publication Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
ASIN: B008V102QW
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
X-Ray: Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled
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This 16-page 8"x8" book has the same basic storyline as the 48-page 9"x6" book "Green Team!". The Turtles come to the surface for the first time, and they battle the Kraang who have kidnapped a girl's scientist father. However, "Saved" is inferior to "Green" in several major ways.First and foremost, "Green" has more illustrations and more text than "Saved." For example, "Green" has 8 illustrated pages about the TMNTs' origins and 15 years underground, while "Saved" has one un-illustrated sentence. In "Green," it is clear how the TMNTs found a pizza; in "Saved," we are left to wonder if they were rummaging through garbage, if they stole it, or whatever. "Green" has a character "Snake" (who mutates into "Snakeweed") that "Saved" lacks.Second, if you want your child to read the story her/himself, the font size is smaller ("Green" is about 22 point, "Saved" is about 14 point).Third, "Saved" is staple-bound as opposed to the perfect-bound (i.e., glued) "Green." Its expected lifetime is thus shorter.Finally, it is more violent in one passage in the middle which goes "One bad guy was left behind. Michelangelo hit him with his nunchucks." The corresponding scene in "Green" has the gentler "Michelangelo chased him into an alley and finally won the fight."The only ways in which "Saved" is better than "Green" are minor: (a) the important parts of the illustrations are about 50% larger (e.g.
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