In this Search and Find book, children travel to the park, grocery store, grandma's house, the zoo, mini golf, the beach, the dinosaur museum, the aquarium, the pool, and a farm. The ride on trains, buses, planes, a cruise ship, and even join a parade! On each page there are items labelled and drawn at the bottom of the page that you can look for in the illustrations. You can look for food items at the picnic, find flowers and bees at the farmer's market, and find pencils and blocks at school.
I love the illustrations drawn in a sort of fuzzy crayon style. They are so cute! It's really interesting to search through the artwork and find different characters doing activities, eating, playing music, buying flowers, swimming in the pool, cooking on a grill, putting up a tent, or running to catch a plane. There is so much action on each page!
Not only does this teach young toddlers to identify items, but it also helps them to use their imagination as they learn about each destination.
I just love this adorable book! I can't wait to read it with my 2-year-old niece and help her find all the items.
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The Nuff is a unicorn with a broken horn, but she doesn't let that stop her from being amazing, trying new things, and being confident in herself. Even if she isn't perfect, she is enough!
The Nuff may not look like the girls in magazines, and she might make mistakes or sing off-key, but she is a beautiful and brave unicorn with a big heart and a smart brain that keeps her enjoying life. She plays sports, rollerskates with friends, goes swimming in the ocean, explores the countryside, generously gives to others, plays in the mud, climbs mountains, rides her bike, plays princess dress-up, and dances across the grass.
This book was written by a mother for her daughters. She died of cancer shortly after writing it, and it is her message to all children everywhere that they are enough.
I really loved the positive messages and themes in this book! So many times we find it hard to forgive ourselves for not being perfect, and even adults need to be reminded that we are enough.
The poetry is good, and the rhyming is good, but sometimes the rhythm of the lines didn't add up, or words were obviously added to fill in and doesn't match the previous couplet. It was fine, but could have been better.
The illustrations are just beautiful! I love the bright colors and the cute animal characters. The energy and vitality of the unicorn character is evident on every page!
I wasn't quite sure why the book started out with a narrator introducing the story and then began with the Nuff being born. It's not a very natural starting place for the story. I also was not happy with the sudden change in perspective to the narrator again in the middle of the book. Then it jumps back to the Nuff again on the next page. It was jarring, and interrupted the flow of the story. I understand that the narrator is the author speaking directly to her daughters, and that is very sweet, but the pacing of the story would have been better without the narrator scenes.
This a very sweet and inspiring book for children ages 5-10.
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