I like this book much better than Peanut Goes for the Gold. It rhymes, it has cadence, and the message is fantastic. You are gorgeous no matter who you are and us together are even more beautiful. I loved everything about this. The illustrations by Kamala are perfect. They show a diversity of peoples and abilities and thoughts and ideas and it just all together makes a great book for any age of kid. 

 

This isn’t a book so much as a song with pictures added. The original Octopus‘s Garden came out in 1969. This is a little funny, but when you hear the music, it makes so much more sense. This book is really about the illustration. The illustrations are done well, and I think if it was done correctly, this could be a lot of fun at story time. 

 

When reading this book out loud, you can tell it was written by a singer. The book follows the same ups and downs one normally finds in a song which makes this book work well. The idea is why not you if other people can do it? Why can’t you do it too? This book is telling you that you can do it, you just have to try. I like everything about this book. There is something interesting. This book has a co-writer in Janay Brown-Wood, but except for the title page there is no biography or anything else for that person. The illustrations were done by Jessica Gibson and they are marvelous. I don’t know how much help Sierra and Russell had in writing this book but either way it was lovely. And I wouldn’t mind reading anything else they produced. 

 

If this book didn’t have the author’s name on it, I would not have realized it was written by a celebrity. There is a co-author in Karina Argow whose bio says they are an English teacher. This feels like it was written by an English teacher. Someone who liked to play on the words and ANT and and AUNT. The story is over long. There’s no reason for the story to be this long. It’s about an aunt who wants to go on an adventure to another section of the garden.  There are many points of repetitive wording that get tiring and annoying. The story is nice, and I do like the idea of the cricket transport system. That’s cute. The illustrations are lovely. Kelly Ann Dalton did a fantastic job. The cover is not my favorite, but the inside artwork is so much better and does not look as old-fashioned as the cover does. Overall, this book was nice but not anything that’ll still be on Library shelves in 20 years. 

 

I really wanted to like this book. First this book is too long. And there are so many ideas in here that it seems like a mishmash. There’s the idea of being afraid, the idea of feeling left out, the idea of not fitting in. Towards the end the minotaur says they learned that black is just where all the colors meet seems to come from nowhere and belong to a different book. It’s just altogether weird. I like the illustrations. I think they are well done. This does have a co-writer in Gerdine Nolan but honestly a lot of this does sound like Tiffany Haddish. It sounds like someone who’s telling their nieces and nephews or their own kids a little story. It’s a nice first effort, but nothing memorable. 

 

Naomi Osaka is a tennis champion. She also started an organization called Play Academy. The goal is to get more girls playing any type of sport. This book was lovely. It rhymes; it has a nice cadence. It keeps things simple. It just works on every level. The illustrations are what they need to be and show diversity so this book can be used in many places. Overall, I really like this book, and I would use it for story time repeatedly. As for a celebrity author, I think she had help. Is it possible to get something this good first time around? Yes? With the way this is written how it’s copyrighted, I think if not a full-on ghost rider then at least a ghost helper had a hand in this book. 

 

This is a story from a father to his daughter. The only reason it’s been published is because the father is an NFL linebacker. Illustrations are OK but feel very amateurish. Overall, this is a story not many will buy and not found in many libraries and there is a reason for it. 

 

This book! I was fully engrossed in this story. It does have its issues where it jumps from point to point and there’s no connection and it feels like there’s holes. But overall, this is an interesting and fascinating study. It’s about being different in a new school. It’s about the various people who will use you for what you have.  It’s also about true friends, family and hope and acceptance. Altogether the story was lovely, and I was not ready for it to end. I might have to go online to read the next part. 

 

This graphic novel merges monsters and hockey. We have a minor league enforcer and his teenage daughter who just wants her dad to make it to the big time. Her dad making the big time means she can stop moving and get a chance at the WPHL herself. But she found out her dad‘s got a funny little hobby called monster hunting. And that it runs in the family and that she is more special than she could ever have imagined. This is both fun and light horror. It has cheesy comedy, but the cheesiness works well with the story. The artwork is typical comic style, but the coloring is fantastic and brings the creatures to life both the in this world and the parallel world. Overall, this was a great and I would read something from this author and illustrator again. 

 

Just like the first book of hiking this book is too long. Not only does it talk about different types of camping and where you go. It also gives sentences about real campsites. Too much in this type of book at one time.