Review by Booklist Review
Gr. K^-2. In the seventh Viking Easy-to-Read story about Cam Jansen, Cam once again uses her photographic memory to solve a mystery in daily life. It's a scenario many kids will recognize. Dad's lost the shopping list. Did he leave it in the library where he and Cam and her friend were reading mysteries and checking out books? Did he drop it as they came to the supermarket? The scenes of the library and the store are bright and busy, and readers will catch the excitement of playing detective by looking closely at the details in their own daily lives. They will also see that mystery stories are fun. --Hazel RochmanReference Books Bulletin
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Review by Horn Book Review
When her dad loses the grocery list, it's up to Cam Jansen and her photographic memory to find it. Color illustrations parallel the text--providing support for beginning readers. However, somewhat clunky writing and a bland mystery make for a disappointing addition to the popular series. A visual memory game is included. From HORN BOOK Fall 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Its a long shot, but Adler takes a stab at turning a mystery on the slender hope of a shopping list. Can it be done? Not in this effort, the seventh in the Young Cam Jansen, early reading series. Camthats short for Camera, thats short for her photographic memoryhelps her dad locate a shopping list he has misplaced. But most of this story is spent introducing readerslikely for the umpteenth timeto Cam, her rare talent, and her display of that talent by repeating verbatim a book she read some time back. Nattis artwork, which provides welcome relief from the stilted prose, also provides a clue to the missing document and gives the effort its most obvious appeal. Indeed, a visual-memory game has been tacked into the endpapers and is quite fun. Which cant be said for the story, where anything at all could be substituted for the shopping listwhy not a laundry ticket, which is right up there with shopping lists in the fascination department?serving to underscore the arbitrariness and tedium of the whole endeavor. (Easy reader. 6-8)
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