The Eye of Ulam by Terry Denton

Terry Denton was born in Melbourne in 1950. He is one of Australia's busiest literacy writers. The eye of Ulam was published in 2001. It is a fiction comic adventure book. There are 130 pages in this book but it is mostly comics with pictures. This book is about a guy who lost his eye and needs to put an eye on the statue of Ulam to get his it back.

The first part of the plot is easy to understand. First, there is a guy called Nico who likes to surf and he’s been participating in a surfing championship. He has been practicing but then his friend says that his other friend has lost so Nico to decide to save his friend and give up the surfing championship. The story is at the statue of Ulam. The pace of the story is quite slow. It’s not that fast and it’s not straightforward. It’s not straightforward because it doesn’t tell you straight away that his friend is lost. It tells you one thing at a time. This is a good thing because it makes you more interested.

The parts that I enjoy are the parts where there is comedy I think these parts are funny. I don’t like the part where there are too many writings. The plot was ok- not too boring and not too interesting. The character was not believable because there is a character with only one eye in the middle. I think the novel is suitable for a year 6-7 kid. I would recommend this to some people because it is a bit funny so I think it’s not a really bad book.

Review by Evan Weng