I liked that it coincided some with the movie, the jams, the birthday party, and the job offer. This book did push off importance of family and hard work.
Synopsis:"Children's Book.The Minions have one job, and one job only--they work for Gru! Join Dave, Kevin, Tom, Stuart, Jerry and the rest of the gang as they do everything from stealing the moon to testing jelly recipes!This book is Level 2 in the Passport to Reading program."
My Review: I just recently picked this book up even though it was to transition into Despicable Me 2 years ago. Munchkin loves the minions and especially this movie so figured this would be a fun one. I like how it did have a story outside of the movie plot line, though it seems like the images were taken from early storyboards for the movie and they ended up going a slightly different way in the final production. It is a great level 2 book with some new more complex words and sentence structure but still with the fun characters and story that will keep young fans reading.
Meet the Minions, also adapted by Lucy Rosen, tells the story of minions; but not really. It is a hyper shortened version of the first 15 minutes of the movie. The part before Gru becomes a good guy. May I just say how horribly digitized this book is. It's like a really really bad zoom job. The minions were not done any justice.