Zoë TuckerRecensioni

We Are the Beatles is a fun, little picture book all about the famous British band.

I think this is a great, little read with goofy pictures to introduce young readers to the Beatles. It is definitely not the be all, end all of biographies, but it's a great start! It's colourful (which seems fitting, if you've seen some of their music videos and covers), and has a small introduction to the entire band.

This is an excellent, picture book resource for some information about The Beatles.

Three out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

If you're seeking a non-fiction, picture book read then this book is it! Especially if you love music, and Motown music at that! We Are the Supremes by Zoe Tucker is a delightful read all about the famous Motown band.

Mary and Florence decide to start a girl group, and my gosh did they ever. Diana joins them and makes for one incredible singing group. They will rock the charts! Their history is shown throughout this book, which will go nicely if you blast a few tunes off your favourite music streaming service. This is a great way to introduce music history to the young generations. Or, if you're an adult that just likes dipping into picture books, this one will fit too!

The illustrations are simple and classic and the story is marvellous. This is a great little read and I highly recommend it! Why didn't I have more books like this when I was younger?

Four out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Quarto Publishing and Wide Eyed Editions for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

Asked by the animals of the forest to help them to defeat the greedy who were destroying forests and ruining the air. She pondered the problem and started to make her ideas known. Soon others who agreed that the problems could be made known without violence joined her. And together they proved that "No one is too small to make a difference."
It's a good reminder to keep up the good work that Greta started.
The illustrations by Zoe Persico are fun, tinged with a bit of whimsey, colorful, and delightful.
Well suited for reading WITH someone of any age including ESL, and great for gifting to anyone, but especially to a school or your public library!
I requested and received a free temporary e-book on Adobe Digital Editions from Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books via NetGalley. Thank you! I bought one for granddaughter, too.

This was a short and cute read designed for little kids, probably to be read to them by an adult who hopes they will take an interest in math, science, history, biography, computers, or all of the above.

An adult who knows the Ada Lovelace story well might notice that it rather overstates and oversimplifies the case when it says that she "changed the world" with her mathematical footnotes. It would be more accurate to say that she imagined the change that might someday be possible. Still, kudos for introducing kids to a less well-known historical figure, especially a 19th century woman with some complicated emotional baggage but a first-class brain.

Thanks to NorthSouth Books and NetGalley for the advance review copy.

"Inspired by Greta Thunberg". Story is followed by a brief biography of Greta, "some things you can do", and web resources for changing the world.

This book is a fictionalized story based on a real life girl who decided that she had to help our planet. The giants have taken over and are destroying everything. Greta is going to take a stand, and others will join her to defeat the giants and make them learn better ways. What a wonderful story of a true superhero who stood up and said Not today.

It's about a community garden. It's about sharing and working together. It's about the cycle of life. It's about remembering. The colors of the people, clothes, flowers, and vegetable are all brilliant as are the depictions of those same things. Very well done and great for ESL! Want one for my local library!
I requested and received a free temporary ebook copy from NorthSouth Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

This picture book biography is extremely well done. It is a story most adults know. What makes this one different is that the author made sure that Mike Collins got as much credit as Buzz Aldrin and Neal Armstrong. This book is better than other picture book biographies because at the end of the story, instead of regurgitating the story in biographical information, this book expands on it, mentioning the space race, those who came before Apollo 11, and all the other people who helped make the mission a success. This book is the real success and I can’t wait to see what subject the author tackles next.½

Synopsis: This book tells the story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg—the Swedish teenager who has led a movement to raise awareness about the world’s climate crisis—using a fairytale style allegory to make this important topic accessible to young children. The book ends with a brief explanation about who the real “Greta” is, and what the cause she is fighting for is really about. There are also a few suggestions for ways in which the reader can limit their negative impact on climate change, as well as a list of web sources for further reading. Grades K-2.

Response: The premise of this story is lovely, but the authors are a bit heavy-handed with the depiction of the “giants”. The argument of the story seems to establish a zero-sum game where either the environment or mankind must dominate completely, rather than find some harmonious balance. It feels a bit like the authors may run the risk of guilting or frightening their little readers into begging their parents to abandon society altogether and go live in the woods, which is, for most families, not the most viable option. However, the broad concept of Earth=good, go save Earth is a good one to introduce to young children. The illustrations and Fairytale style will be appealing to young readers.

as upbeat as the music; gentle story of the Beatles and why they were new, different and important

Children’s biographies are pretty popular and the market is close to being saturated, but I really liked this look at the beatles. None of the information is new, but I like how they illustrated the book in the theme of The Yellow Submarine (A Beatles song). It works well together and creates a pretty successful biography of a big band.

Cute introduction of Ada Lovelace to kids. The book felt a little bit too short, though. Nice, modern style of illustrations.

I received a copy through Netgalley, which did not alter my opinion on this books.

Greta Thunberg ist zurzeit in aller Munde, da sie auf die Klimakrise aufmerksam macht und auch viele andere Menschen zum Umdenken bewegt hat. Zoë Tucker ließ sich davon inspirieren und hat dieses Kinderbuch geschrieben.
Die Bilderbuch-Greta lebt im Wald. Doch die Idylle wird gestört, denn immer mehr Bäume werden abgeholzt, weil das Holz Zum Bauen benutzt wird. Während immer mehr Bäume verschwinden, werden die Orte immer größer. Als kaum noch etwas von Gretas Wald das ist, will sie etwas unternehmen und holt die Tiere zu Hilfe, die auch darunter zu leiden haben, dass der Wald verschwindet.
Man kann nicht früh genug damit anfangen, die Kinder darauf aufmerksam zu machen, wie labil unsere Umwelt ist und dass man sie schützen muss. Das Bilderbuch ist gut dafür geeignet. Die Sprache ist kindgerecht und gut verständlich.
Die Illustrationen sind wunderschön und passend.
Ich kann das Buch nur empfehlen, ganz besonders, da es auf recyceltem Papier gedruckt ist und für jedes verkaufte Exemplar eine Spende an Greenpeace geht.
Also: unbedingt kaufen und mit den Kleinen lesen!

Greta is visited by the inhabitants of her forest, pleading for help in saving their home. The giants have pillaged and plundered nature in their blind greed for profitable construction. She contemplates how and sets out to meet them, carrying only a sign with “STOP” emblazoned upon it. Alone, she is ignored. Soon, others join her, each with their own sign of their own plea. The numbers can not be ignored. The giants take heed. They stop, they listen, they regret. Looking always forward, they could not see the destruction left behind. They adopt alternatives, begin to repair, change the motion of progress.

Adorably illustrated and completed with a bio on Greta alongside some tips for eco-living and websites for further information.

A product of 350.org, a grassroots campaign intending to reduce carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, 3% of every book sale goes towards meeting their goal.

Every child needs a hero to look up to, why not give them one that cares about their tomorrows?

An empowering fable inspired by Greta Thunberg.

(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss.)

Greta is just a child, not much older than this picture book's intended audience, when the Giants who live near her forest home start to run amok. Though they have always been around, lately they have become greedier and greedier, cutting down the forest's trees with reckless abandon, building factories that belch smoke into the air, and just generally trampling over the many other creatures who call the forest home.

Desperate, the bears and foxes and squirrels turn to young Greta for help. She is only one person - and a small one, at that - but her stand against the Giants inspires other children to take action as well. Thankfully, this story has a happy ending: easily shamed, the Giants are horrified by their lack of manners and empathy, and quickly move to set things right.

Sadly, the real Greta - Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish girl who serves as inspiration for this fable - is actually mocked, teased, subjected to ableism, and dismissed as "hysterical" by the IRL Giants, who have neither a sense of shame, nor a conscience. But that wouldn't make for a very uplifting picture book, would it?

That said, the book's afterward introduces readers to the real Greta, and the myriad of challenges she's faced. It also includes a list of actions that kids can take, in the here and now, to help make Greta's dream a reality. (Thankfully, nestled among the suggestions is "eat less meat," though methinks "go vegan" would be more apt, especially since Greta is. One of us, one of us!)

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The artwork in Greta and the Giants is lovely, as is the message. I especially love the diversity of faces - kids of all races, ethnicities, and religions join Greta in her fight, and there's no understating the importance of representation. This is a great book to help engage younger readers with the world around them, and empower them to take action in their own communities. It shouldn't be up to them, but we grownups have failed them, miserably.

My only regret? That Esther the Wonder Pig didn't land a cameo.

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This is probably one of my favorite picture books on Ada Lovelace. It was just the perfect amount of information for picture book format without being too glossy, or too dumbed down. This title hit on facts others leave out and also points out that she didn’t do all on her own. I love this book and can not wait to add it to my library collection.
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This was a quick, enjoyable, kid-appropriate biography of Ada Lovelace, with a hilariously dry aside regarding the difficulty of dealing with her father Lord Byron and factual commentary explaining the privilege Ada Lovelace had compared to most girls in her time and of course the misconceptions regarding women's unsuitability for involvement in the sciences. It's a good read, simple without being simplistic, and I think appropriate for kids without being dumbed-down. I also enjoyed the artwork, and that is something I'm generally fairly picky about.

I received a free copy of the ebook from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.