Jeremy Tankard (1)

Ah, the quintessential man and man’s best friend story. Yorick is a newly-turned living skeleton, desperate to make some friends, who meets an adorable canine pal. Yorick is so pure and sweet that you feel sad seeing his failures. I think kids will love the cute art style, but I don’t see why Yorick has to speak ye olde English. For kids not familiar with old-timey speak, there goes half their enjoyment of the story though I found it charming.

6/10, it was ok.

Very cute and funny!

When Bird woke up, he was grumpy. But his friends helped him have a better day. He has a lot of friends.

This is a nice book to encourage kids to live in the moment. If you feel grumpy, go ahead. But as soon as you don’t, roll with that, too. This was my 4yo’s favorite book when he was 3. He’s graduated on past board books now, but I still read it to him sometimes.