As a busy mum with 5 kiddos between 8 months old to 10-years old, I have started cutting down on doing product reviews to focus on my childcare and family life, home cooking, education, helping with hubby's administration site of the business and sharing informational articles on my FB fan page so I am only accepting and prioritizing products that can fit into our family dynamics (especially books on parenting or educational stuff, family products, something along those genre)! Reading is my passion and coupled with books that are of parenting, children, family or religion or educational genre, all the more I gotta say yes!
Title: Everyone
Author: Christopher Silas Neal
Publisher: Candlewick Press (May 10th, 2016)
ISBN-13: 9780763676834
Paperback: 32 pages
Description from the product page:
"Everyone cries, everyone laughs, everyone sings—everyone. A celebrated illustrator explores the universality of feelings in his authorial debut.
Christopher Silas Neal, praised by the New York Times for his “stunning retro-style illustrations,” invites young readers to explore how we feel what we feel, and how everyone else feels it, too. From the animals in the woods to the neighbors in their homes nearby, everyone has feelings and shares them in this whimsical story. Vivid, childlike art in a limited palette conveys a full spectrum of emotion. Young children easily frustrated by a popped balloon or overjoyed by a sky full of stars will relish this simple exploration of empathy."
We received the "Everyone" book for our review which was packed nicely in a cardboard which you can recycle further for doodling, crafts, and more. This book is a simple and easy read, especially to younger children. I read it to our 2.5-year old boy.
There are some pages in the book which is filled with illustrations. I used the opportunity to play hide-and-seek with our 2.5-year old boy. I asked him to find certain objects and watched as he scoured through the page looking for the objects I asked him to find. Very fun and educational, really!
The illustrations are easy to understand for a young child like him as we move along the storyline. I like the idea where some objects transformed into balloons, butterflies and so on. What a nice concept!
I also used the opportunity to get our preschool going girl (she'll be 6 years old in end of Sept) to read to me and guided her when there are words that she has not came across before. I think it is nice to be able to get our children to use other words to express their feelings and frustrations - words like bonkers, batty, bananas - they are not usually used in our vocabulary haha...
I feel that this book inspires our children to express their feelings better and to understand that everyone has their ups and downs and that it is okay to share their happiness and sadness.
Overall, a very gorgeous and educational book to have!
You can find out more about this book from https://www.store.mebooks.asia/
I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with a copy of the book in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous book reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My Book Reviews"
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