Complete vanity project. First off, this book is massively too wordy for a picture book. And it’s about little Mariah; Mariah Carey when she was younger. She even talks to herself in the form of a letter at the beginning of a book. It is also not an adverb or an adjective that I think this woman has forgotten about. Everything must have three to four, sometimes five adjectives to describe it. And things are constantly told to the reader over and over and over again. While this book does have a co-writer I don’t know what the job of the co-writer was. Because this does sound like Mariah Carey, but it is also so over the top. The illustrations are wonderful. I give credit or credit is due. But as for this book, no it’s not worth the time it takes to read it. Which is a shame. Giving a celebrity a vanity picture just to grab the money of readers. At least make a better book. Part of me wonders what Mariah‘s family, particularly her mom and her grandmother, might say about how her early beginnings are described and illustrated in this book. It makes me sad for them even though I don’t know them or anything about them.