Reviewer Conny Withay:Operating her own business in office management since 1991, Conny is an avid reader and volunteers with the elderly playing her designed The Write Word Game. A cum laude graduate with a degree in art living in the Pacific Northwest, she is married with two sons, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren.
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Author: Karen Kilpatrick
Illustrators: Tara Louise
Campbell & Matthew Wilson
Publisher: Nina Charles
Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-938447-18-1
“I will help you when
I can. We can fix things together. After all, you know, we are best
friends forever,” Karen Kilpatrick rhymes in her children’s book,
Peanut’s Mistake.
This thirty-two-page hardbound targets
preschool to second graders who enjoy books about learning proper
behavior. With no profanity or scary scenes, it would best be read
out loud to beginner readers based on some complex words.
In
this short story, a precocious dog named Peanut accidently knocks
over a vase, doll, and books inside the house. Afraid he will be in
trouble, he hides. Not initially noticing the mess, Carmin trips and
ruins her new dress. Following the dog’s muddy paw prints, the
little girl finds Peanut under her bed. Instead of scolding the dog,
she helps clean up the mess, reminding her pet that we all make
mistakes.
I like how the dog knows he has done wrong and that
Carmin does not get angry and yell at her pet. After the story, there
is a question section asking what does the reader do when he or she
makes a mistake, listing responses from other characters in the
series. It is nice to include three tips on what to do next time a
mistake is made. The full-color, full-page drawings are expressive
and easy to understand.
I could not find anything negative in
this book that focuses on behaviors and what is expected of a child.
Some may not like the rhyming format, but I found it simplistic
enough to understand for a preschooler.
Attorney and
award-winning author, Kilpatrick created the Pumpkinheads series that
focuses on social and emotional development. She lives in Florida
with her three children. Artist Campbell has spent twenty years as a
digital artist. Wilson is an animator who has worked for two
well-known animation companies.
I wish there were more books
on the market regarding proper etiquette and behaviors to teach young
ones. It is nice this is a series of nine books to date.
If
you are looking for a charming children’s series that promotes
proper actions and responsibilities in young ones, this one on owning
up to one’s mistakes is a keeper.
Thanks to Bookpleasures
and KSB Promotions for offering this book to review for my honest
opinion.