This was a nice story. The illustrations are fun and bright. Everything works well together. I feel like I’ve heard this story before but enjoyed reading this version of it. 

 

In general, I like this book. The illustrations are great, the story is funny, etc. However, the messaging bothers me. This is a dad that’s constantly busy with his kids and just needs a break. Part of it, are the kids misbehaving or are they just rambunctious. 

 

This book was fine. It was a happy go lucky story about a little bunny finding that they two are special just like everybody else. The book does a decent job rhyming but sometimes the cadence has tripoint. But overall, the book is successful at what it was set up to do. 

 

This book is a five-star read. A cat is telling you all you need to know about dogs and how they are stupid and worthless. Until the cat needs them. This book is funny and full of heart, and the story flows well. There is nothing to dislike about this book. The illustrations are drawn to look like a very good kid did them. This is the type of book I think of when I think of happy books and I’m glad that they’re putting out stories like this. 

 

In a time when participation trophies are handed out to most kids, this book looks at not getting a trophy.  It says it’s OK to not get a trophy. That what matters isn’t if you win or if you lose, but it’s the person you are, and how you get where you’re at. I really like that message. I also really like the illustrations in this book. The book is long, especially towards the end. Once it gets to the main point in the message, it goes on and on and on almost like it’s beating a dead horse. I like this book, but it could do with better editing. 

 

This book is about a child’s perception of time. How, to an adult it may be just a moment, but to a kid it’s a mini lifetime. It’s also about how time slows when something is fascinating, like watching saplings or wind blow. This was nice but it would be hard to convey the lesson in a group setting and would work much better as a bedtime book. 

 

Torla is a smaller than average giraffe and Smorla is an average giraffe. When one has a problem the other helps. This book was super fun and cute. The story is simple but sometimes that’s all it takes. The illustrations are what brings this book to life and the funny sizing also helps. I’d be happy to have this in my collection at any time. 

This book is the usual question when someone tries to pick something for every letter of the alphabet: What about X? In this case all the alphabets are going on a camping trip and everybody’s going to bring something for camping, but who wants to play with an x-ray and what happens when the xylophone is broken? This book wasn’t bad. The illustrations are fun and it’s a nice addition to the usual alphabet books.

 

This book is like many in the series. It’s a fun little rhyming book about the man who brings sleep. Some of the rhymes are harsh and that harness causes the cadence to stagger. Overall, this is a good book, but it’s not my favorite of the series. 

 

This is both biography and a philosophy about finding uses for old things. An everyday sanitation worker in New York City collected things that were broken, but could be fixed could be reused, could be reimagined. He turned his treasures into a museum. His idea was to show people that what one person thinks is trash, could be treasure because he grew up with the lesson that all things are used until there is no use left. This was a lovely story that I think kids will get behind whether an environmentalist or not.