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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - The Movie Storybook by Paddy Kempshall is a retelling of the first Hobbit movie An Unexpected Journey.

The book retells the movie in a simple summary that even children can understand. It's loaded with beautiful full page photographs and smaller ones in between. A few of the photographs look like paintings which offers a nice feel.

I haven't read the original Hobbit books yet, but plan to this year. I personally loved The Hobbit movies which are continuously playing in our house. This book is certainly one to keep around. One of my favorite characters in The Hobbit movies is "Kili" played by Aiden Turner.



I'm really looking forward to picking up the other two movie storybooks, Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies.

5***** ( )

For some reason I can't fathom, my girlfriend bought this the last time we went to a used book store. This is one of the silliest things I've ever read. I literally don't understand why it exists. All this book is is a summary of the movie's plot with screencaps from the movie. What purpose does that serve? Why not just watch the movie? It doesn't have any behind the scenes information. It doesn't tell you anything new. I'ts just...a summary of the movie with screencaps. Do I really need to say anything more than that?

Seriously, who buys these and for what purpose? ( )