This was a lovely poem that uses metaphor to explain the love one has for another. It’s a lovely poem, I just wished it rhymed. It’s a small thing, but it’s what kept it from a five for this reviewer.

This is a simple begging book about th8 gs kids like to do. There are fun illustrations to help kids with words they may not know. Early level early reader good for any gender, but there could have been a broader ethnicity in the illustrations.

This was such a fun story. It’s a round robin type of story that builds on itself like the fly swallowing lady. Except no one in this story dies. Instead, the same question is asked over and over “why are you bad”. I like the ladder steps this story takes. They have not been cleaned up, or simplified, and I think this would make a great story time activity. I could see it as a felt or puppet story as well. But I wouldn’t want to take away from the amazing woodblock prints inside either. Anyway it’s used, this is a fun story, and it gets an extra plus for being in dual languages.

The best of this batch, Jojo has fallen and hurt her chin. She needs her boo boo bandaged. Daddy has to help and try to make the crying stop and an unwilling child willing to be cleaned and doctored. Overall a nice book with ideas that work for parent and child.

This book is quite long for such a simple story. It is a baby chick saying good night and giving good night kisses to various animals. It has fun illustrations, but there is no flow. It’s as if the author just kept adding animals until they got to 100. If the pages could be arranged differently, maybe all farm animals together, or all birds together, or a trip around the world or something. Then the book could seem more put together and intentional.

This book is supposed to be a lesson to parent on how to handle “bye byes”. There is even a note to parents page in the back. The story is simple enough, and nice enough. If I have any complaints it’s that “always comes back” is the constant refrain. The notes to parents says to have a constant refrain, and I do this too (with my dogs: Bye Bye babies, I’ll be back”) but it’s the “always” that gets me. Always isn’t always.

This story started out okay. One child wants something another child is playing with. The teacher interrupts the fight and tells kid a to tell kid b some version of you can have it when I’m done. I was fine until we get to the Jojo character. I have two complaints. The first is that Jojo is coloring and when child d comes to color the teacher has Jojo tell kid d that the crayons are “All mine”. Excuse me? What happened to sharing. Plus crayons are a set. Why can’t one child use one crayon, and another a different crayon. And most parents are trying to get their children away from screaming “mine” not running more towards it. The interesting part is that the Not to parents at the back (I really hate this part of the book as well in almost all books currently). This note says “Sharing is simply not a concept that a yo0ung toddler can grasp… yet”. It says that it is until age 3 toddlers should be developing and mastering their “self” identities and only after that can they learn to share. Then for problem two, let's look at the illustrations. Jojo is the only obvious POC child. And its Jojo he gets to tell someone else it's “all mine”. I might have noticed this years ago, but after a parent complaint about a fairy book, I see this now and it infuriates me. Why is the black child the child who is given the less polite term. Or seen as the child not sharing. Hummmmmmmm. Yep, it’s a no for me with this book.

The story is simple, and would make a great story time book because of all the action books that you could get the audience to participate in. However, i hate the illustrations. They look like color blobs with no definition. I like the dual languages. I hate the not from the doctor at the beginning telling parents how to use this book with their kids, and why they should read it. Ugggg enough already.

This is it! I have a new book that all new parents will be getting from me!!!!! This books takes old school AAV and gives it it’s literal meaning. And for the not cool enough, or not old enough for old school parents there is a glossary in the back that helps translate the before and the after kids meaning. I love this book, I love the illustrations. I LOVE IT!!!!!!

First off, I’m not sure that my galley is complete. It seems to end in a weird spot. Almost like there is no end. If that is intentional it sucks. If it’s not, then okay, this could be better. The entire premise of this book is odd. It’s a story about a pirate father and son reading the Nativity Story. They make cute barbs about the story, and it turns out that when they didn’t make the christmas party, all their friends brought the party to them. And that would have been a great end. But father and son lay down to sleep and then the snow began, and then … nothing. Just another illustration. Don't get me wrong. I love the illustrations in this book, bug that's about it. It is either an incomplete galley, or an incomplete book.