We wrote this for the Guardian Children’s Book Family Reviews

  
Bryn described this as a book about rules & consequences. He felt the pictures were a funny way of describing the consequences.

With its sparse text & sometimes surreal pictures I wasn’t sure how the children would react but they were intrigued & transfixed. We read the book a few times & with each reading we found more things to talk about and to spot. I enjoyed seeing their reactions to the pictures and it was noticeable that they both became quiet & sombre when the pictures were darker in tone.

Looking at the illustrations Bryn was intrigued by the difference in scale with the depictions of large animals & food. Freya however was more interested in the pictures of the two children.

We enjoyed Rules of Summer, being introduced to something different and challenging was a great treat.