I did not finish this book. First off it was a bit hard to read. The illustrators chose to use cursive and my digital galley was just not clear enough. Then the story really wasn't doing it for me. The family dynamic where kids didn’t even know they had a great-grandma because of family striff saddens me. Then when the great granddaughter is just trying to get money out of great grams it pisses me off. This is not a family dynamic I want to read about. I am sure there will be plenty of people who like it, I am just not one of them.

This book is almost a 5. Almost. The illustrations are amazing and I wish the layout was better to focus on them more. They are like little postage stamps on a blue background when they should be bold and big. The story is quite fun, the rhymes work even if a few are harsh and trip the tongue. Overall this is a lovely book I would add to any library collection.

This is my second or third Dinomike book. This one is meant to teach heartfulness and it does an excellent job. Considering the reader is sitting in quarantine (I’ve had this book a while), it’s lesson and actions really hit home. I love the colorful graphics that pull the reader in. While most of the books rhyme, the cadence is harsh at times but not distractedly so.

AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh. This book is so sweet. A cat wakes and finds an egg in her bed, so she must have hatched it. But she needs time to nap and to get food. She desperately needs someone to help her hatch this egg. As an adult I figured out the ending pretty quick, but it didn’t matter. The interaction between the birds, turtle, the dog, and the cat are just so Charlotte’e Web that this reader wears a huge smile on their face while reading. I am sure all kids and parents will as well.

I didn’t think this book was as successful as the other books in the series. Part of that may have been my setting on Pocketbooks being funky and putting the story into PDF only mode, or it may have been the book There was a little poem in English and Spanish and then a look at all the colors. I’ve seen it done better in other books.

This bilingual nursery rhyme book was quite fun. It is set to be a lift the flap book that I think kids will love. The graphics are colorful without being overdone, the story is simple but all it needs to be. My only complaint is that the brown wording on a brown background is quite hard to read. Please fix that before publication.

I normally like reading satire about our current federal government. Especially the cheeto in chief, but this was just too much. Not because they were being too mean to the current president, it was just the right amount of fun. However, each strip is quite long and it’s just too real. To right now as I am stuck in quarantine. It is too much so I have DNFed it. Maybe in the future I will be able to find the funny in this. Right now it’s just depressing and I don’t need that.

This is a very fun picture book about a girl who is NOT a superhero, she’s a business woman. May’s business is saving the day by adding or taking away letters from attacking words and making them easier to tackle. The illustrations are full of diversity. May is a person of color, and Stu (who wants to be her sidekick) is white and in a wheelchair. This story is about neither of those things, but it is lovely to see them represented, even if the authors do not share those characteristics.

This book was interesting but felt like half a story. A man in France is writing bad things about America, and Jefferson wants to prove him wrong. So he wants something big and unusual to prove that America is beautiful and interesting and decides he wants to measure a moose. The moose's skin is sent to him for his measuring. I just really didn’t like this book or its artwork which seemed old and dated.
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First off this book is too long. A pale girl goes to school and learns they have one rule: take care of yourself and others. She tries to use the rule at home and it works but not as well. She gets to participate in Take your child to work day and her mom has a conflict. This is a story narrated by the little girl, and just like most young kids stories, it goes on and on, and on. Please leave this set and spend your library money on something better.
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