Cora is a little girl who likes things just a certain way. It’s her way or the highway. While this is a common saying, why is a little girl saying it? Does she even know what it means? Then various people like teachers and even her mother tell her she has to be “Flexible”. She thinks this is being bendy in different directions which is illustrated perfectly in the book. Later the lesson is that flexibility is learning that you don’t always get your way, and that being flexible means doing things you may not want to do, to get along or obey others. This is not a book I would ever use with kids because I think the message is a bit wonky, not exact, and a tad confusing. But i see parents and teachers liking it.
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Overall I like the metaphor. The author has done a great job at developing a concept and playing it out to the end. Sometimes I like the art sometimes I don’t. The cover seems to dark and old fashioned, but the pictures towards the end with the colorfully gross egg, work really well. I like this book, but not enough to buy it for my library or my personal collection.

This book is a well done educational tool. I think it is too long for a bedtime story, or standard picture book, but I can see a teacher or caregiver choosing an emotion a day or week and working lessons around it. The book is divided into the various emotions and the signs of that emotion. It looks at how to recognize it, who to tell how strong it is, and things that might happen when it is being felt. It mixes “cases” or real scenes with informational pages to keep things flowing. I like how each emotion is a character with a name, a color and a shape. Overall, this is very well done. I have a few problems, mostly small and not worth mentioning, except when talking about reactions and physical changes, the book mentions “turn pale, sometimes as white as snow”. I take exception to the “white as snow” because it assumes all people are as white as the cartoon bunny in the illustration. To be pale means different things if the reader of a different skin color. To this reader, it appears to say all this books readers will be Caucasian. I think this line and example needs a little work.

I’m probably being too adult in reading this book. So let’s start off with the kids hat on. This is a cute story of Drake the dragon who gets his first kiss. He reacts by blowing fire. He didn’t mean to, and he is worried that he might hurt human Violet if it happens again. He opens up to family who tell him it’s okay because that is who he is and what is in his nature. But he is still worried that he will hurt a human. Until he purposely blows fire at a boy who is taunting Violet. The illustrations are fun and whimsical and nicely round out the story. Now time to put the adult cap back on. When I read this story it makes me think of an abusive relationship. Where it’s just in Drakes nature to hurt the one he loves. Where it is okay to use violence against someone who harms someone else. My adult brain has a hard time not seeing that in this story, so while I think it is cute, I will not be adding it to my personal or library’s collection.

This book was fine but not amazing. A bee is buzzing around and sees his animal friends contorting their bodies in weird ways. They tell him it's yoga, and the name of the pose. Some even tell him why they do that pose. The author tries really hard to rhyme, and there he does succeed, but there is no cadence, which makes the rhymes seem dunderheaded and off. There is no flow, or a choppy flow when a rhyme is to harsh or two stretched like Jane and Airplane. The illustrations are fine and charming. A nice book, but there are better similar books.

If it wasn’t for the 2 ½ pages of “Note to Parents and Caregivers” this would be an almost 5 star read. Why? The story is simple to understand, has a relate able and usable message and outstanding illustrations. I would hang any page of this story on my wall as art.

Way to simplistic. Little People Big Dreams series, and all this book did was shorten that story, and take away it’s meaning. The best way to put it, is this is a slightly narrative timeline of a great woman's life. Get the real book, leave the board book at the store.

I think this book is too simplistic. My guess is it is for ages birth through 3. Just a very basic overview. The whole book can be summed up with one sentence. Emmeline pankhurst wanted women to vote. That’s it. The entire idea of the book. No why, no depth, etc.

This book is just as stupid as you expect it to be by the title. And kids will love it. Its a graphic novel for the younger set, minus the potty humor, but plus the ridiculous. A quick and fun read for any age, but mostly preferred by ages 5-10

Simple, cute, fun. This story is of a little bear who just wants to grow. He asks friends and family what it will take to grow. Only at the end does he learn that every little thing helps a little grow bigger, just a little at a time.