T*A*C*K* Against Time

T*A*C*K #3

by Marvin Miller (creator), Nancy K. Robinson, Alan Tiegreen (illustrator)

Vintage book

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library)]

It's late, and I'm short on time, so, let me just say this: This was a decent group of kiddie mysteries...but, the ending was rather bizarre.

[C]

Our first coronavirus family read of 2021 comes to an end... We have really enjoyed these TACK books and will be sad to leave them behind.

[Stef Rozitis]

I thought I was going to enjoy this book more with the two girls and two boys and female narrator format. It was mainly over-the-top eighties style excess and the males do nearly all the thinking anf talking and the females follow (one female is absent) so that very quickly reading the book just became a tedious game of "Can you stay wide enough awake to notice let alone solve the trivial mystery).

Nevertheless this sort of series was in many ways better than some of the mass-produced (and overly gendered) stuff available for children currently (2015) with outright consumerist values and the heterosexual matrix forced on younger and younger readers. So eighties shallowness was still in some ways naive and charming compared to the shallow, cynical marketisation of absolutly everything to children and their families now.

I mean you at least have to read a little bit critically to try to solve the mystery right? Maybe that is why this (still popular with children) genre is no longer so readily available!

[Caleb]

i liked it