The Cool Bean

Cute Book, Decent Message

This little bean drifted apart from his childhood friends as they all grew older because his friends' aesthetics and interests were ‘cool' and he didn't really fit in with that. He felt sad about it, until one day his old friends helped him out and he realized they could still be friends despite being in different social circles. The plot thread feels a bit forced, taking the concept of remaining friends with varied interests and flipping it into a moral about being kind to everyone. But overall, it's a cute story with a good message for kids.

Fantastic message of it's cool to be kind

I just didn't understand why the other beans in the “cool” clique were... I guess hot and cold with the main character. It seemed all of a sudden that the group that had kinda excluded him were kind to him on what could have been an awful day and then are intermittently friendly with him.

So what I got was “friendship can be kinda random and inconsistent” which is true, but also an odd message for a kids book.

I also think that I'm not a huge fan of Jory John.