I’d
received a PDF.file copy of this from the author through a giveaway he recently
had on LibraryThing and the following is my honest opinion.
The
author, Curtis Edmonds, has written a marvelous rhyming alphabetical listing of
girl’s names that one girl imagines she might be instead of herself. Each time she
images another name she’s in another state of the U.S. doing some sort of
activity. Yet, her imagination is just that for she really enjoys being
herself, doing the things she likes to do, but most of all she enjoys being
with the family she. What adds to this book’s readers enjoying it is the
fabulous illustrations done by Mat Sadler.
While
each name appears to have a city and an activity haphazardly associated with
it, there’s actually an educational reason behind it. An educational reason
which parents can find at the end of the book, where a fact about the state and
the activity each girl mention is mentioned is given. Parents can either copy
each of these pages from the paperback edition, or copy/paste from the KINDLE and
sit with their daughters the first time she reads the book. The inspiration for
this book came from the author’s daughters, whose names are mentioned in the
book.
For
having given his young readers as well as their parents an enjoyable and
educational reading experience there’s no way I can’t give its author and
illustrator 5 STARS.
Now,
that this author has given us a book written for parents and their daughters, I
feel it’s no more than fitting that he writes one for parents and their sons.
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