librarianryan's reviews
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This book is sad but lovely. Unfortunately, books like this are needed. It teaches children how to deal with a hole left behind when a friend is no longer there. The illustrations are beautiful, the words rhyme with perfect cadence, and the story while sad has an uplifting message of remembrance. 

 

This is a picture book that does not take itself seriously but takes it’s topic seriously. We start by meeting a very small dinosaur called Smallasaurus, and all the dinosaurs in this book are purposely not factually named. This is a book about the food cycle and that sometimes people are food. It’s interesting, but it’s not the best book. It will have its people that love it, and people like me who are more meh. This was a fine but not one that’ll be on shelves in 20 years. 

 

This book will fit perfectly with “Paperback Princess”. We have a knight who is determined to find a dragon to fight. But the knight is a guy does not pay attention. Our knight even finds a damsel in distress.  While the night is too braggadocios to realize what’s going on, the princess is going to save the day. This book was lots of fun. The illustrations are bright, vibrant, colorful, everything a kid wants in a book. This book has lots of power and could be read over and over and over again for decades to come if given the chance. 

 

Ding. Norgay was a mountain climber. He started out as a child who just loved to look at Mount Everest and knew that that it was his mountain. He was the Sherpa helping Edward Hilary reach the top of Mount Everest. It took 20 years, but he did it. This is when I think Little People Big dreams is at its best. When it introduces us to people that are not in standard school history books. 

 

This book is lovely. It’s exactly what you expect from the title. It is the narrator telling you how all people are the same but different. I really enjoy the illustrations. They’re all lively, they’re realistic, but at the same time soft and illustrated. All together it just works. The book is a little long and heavily repetitive but still a great example of the type of story it is. 

 

This story could be a Pixar short and have everybody in the theater crying. It needs a different cover, and it ends abruptly at the last page. But overall, this is an amazing work of quiet imagination. Of a child’s nighttime theory becoming an adventure of a lifetime. This story is wonderful and deserves a chance to flourish. 

 

This book was lots of fun. It feels, and looks like it was written by a child, but reads like it was written by an adult who knows how to tell a story. Put those two things together in this is a magically wonderful read. Taking it a step further, the author made this a “choose your own adventure” type of book and it all works together incredibly well. This is one of those books that may look self-published, but a big five publisher needs to look and snatch this up.   Libraries need this in our catalogs. 

 

The author puts their bio at the front of the book, and I wish they wouldn’t. It mentions their writing accolades makes it more depressing when the book isn’t that great. In this book Gracie is a puppy with a new litter looking to attract her new home. The story is stilted in many places, and then ends abruptly. It doesn’t have any flow. The illustrations are interesting but look like something someone would do for a school project. I really wanted to like this book and like Gracie the Westy, however this is a flash in the pan that’ll be gone in a blink of an eye. 

 

This is a fun and educational book about a young girl and her dyslexia. She must talk herself into asking for help and then getting the help that she and her “Lexi” need. This is a great book to help others understand dyslexia at a young age. 

 

This book is fun and it’s about the gross substances in one’s body. The illustrations are fun, but I do wish the cover was punched up a little bit more. This book is interesting entertaining and kids will really like it, but without a more engrossing cover kids will never pick it up.