A Ninja’s Path (Reader #5)

Adapted by: Tracey West

Published by: Scholastic

Published Date: October 1, 2012 (available for pre-order)

Softcover; 32 pages

ISBN# 978-0545435932

Genre: Early Reader

Reviewed by: Shanda

FTC FYI: received review copies of A Ninja’s Path, Jay: Ninja of Lightning, Kai: Ninja of Fire, and Lego Ninjago: Collector’s Sticker Book in exchange for an honest review

Goodreads Summary of A Ninja’s Path

Lego Ninjago toys are a hit with boys 5 – 9! Scholastic’s books are based on the popular Cartoon Network series.

Quiet Zane isn’t like the other ninja. His weird humor sometimes gets him in trouble with Cole, Kay, and Kai–especially when he leads the ninja into a mission that ends in the destruction of their home in Sensei Wu’s monastery. Now Zane must hope that a new path will rise from the monastery’s ashes….

Review

All of my children love Lego Ninjago, not just my 5-year-old son. In fact, we plan on dressing up as all of the different Lego Ninjago characters for Halloween this year. (I get to be Nya.) So I was happy to receive a few Lego Ninjago books from Scholastic and hand them over to my kids to see how they liked them.

My five-year-old son went straight for A Ninja’s Path. The color pages and familiar pictures from the TV episode kept him turning pages and asking me to read it to him. My three-year-old daughter was happy to join us. We’ve read it several times and they have flipped through the book looking at the pictures many times since. Of all of the books we received, that one is their favorite. It doesn’t come out until October, but Amazon is accepting pre-orders and it’s priced decently at $3.99.

We also received two chapter books, Jay: Ninja of Lightning and Kai: Ninja of Fire. While these just happen to be my two youngest’s favorite ninjas, the chapter books are a little old for them. They don’t have the color pictures of the first book, and my little ones don’t have the patience or comprehension to sit through me reading the story to them, at least all at once. My 11-year-old read through them and said she liked them for the most part, but she may be a little too old and more advanced of a reader for them. However, if you have a 7-10 year old reluctant reader (boy OR girl) that happens to love Lego Ninjago, these may be just the thing to get them reading. There are also chapter books for the other two ninjas – Cole: Ninja of Earth, and Zane: Ninja of Ice.

The last book we received was the Lego Ninjago: Collector’s Sticker Book. While my five-year-old glanced through it, my three-year-old daughter had the most fun with it. She loved pulling the stickers off the sheets and putting them in the book. She didn’t really understand or care about the spaces where you can track when you received a certain Lego Ninjago set, but she had fun putting all the stickers in their places. The sets pictured in the book are from the earlier Ninjago days, and some of the newer sets are not included. Still, my three-year-old liked it.

If you have Lego Ninjago fans in your house, they might enjoy one or all of these books as well.