Grow Grateful

We need more books about feeling grateful, but unfortunately, this one was not very well written. It tells the story of Kiko, a young girl who goes on a field trip with her class, and learns what it means to be grateful. The first page starts with “I am an happy camper. I can grow grateful too', which feels very strange as the ‘too' doesn't have a clear reason to be there. When a boy asks what it means to be grateful, the author explains it in a very long and difficult paragraph, while the examples on the following pages would have been enough. The book ends with the question ‘How do you grow grateful?”.

I feel like the initial idea for the book was good but it lacked some serious editing to improve the flow and the structure of the story, The collage was colorful but could have been more pleasant to me without some random newspaper on the clothes or gardens of the characters. 2.5 stars rounded to 3.

Thank you NetGalley and the American Psychological Association for providing me with a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Read and reviewed: 2018-12-06