Lila Danisa
To be really honest, I needed to reread this book like 3 times and looked for underlying meanings and messages before I read this book to my 5 years old son. Because this book was so metaphorical with deep messages. I am 31 years old woman was having hard time to decipher the underlying contexts, really curious how 5 to 8 years old take on this book since this book target audiences are those in that age range.
As for my own 5 years old son, he found difficulty understanding this book. I encouraged him to discuss what his opinions about the story. We reread this book so many times to finally aligned his takes on the story with mine. We concluded that this book mainly quest was to not hold anger. You definitely can get mad at someone and/or something but you need to let it go in healthy ways so it's not eating you up from the inside. My son and I also believed that this book wants us to freely express what we feels.
I am not 100% sure whether what we (my son and I) think about the story and its messages are correct or not. This book was actually (really) hard to understand, even for me. Maybe it's just my comprehension that not in right level to understand this book. Either way, I definitely will reread this book in the future (with my son, of course) to get better understanding on everything going on in this book.
The illustrations were giving painting vibes. Full of soft colors that frankly kinda gloomy (and sad) for children books.
This book definitely is not the kind of children books I usually read to my son. But it was actually fun reading experience since this book opened up long discussion with my son.
Thank you to Beatrice Alemagna, Astra Publishing House, Hippo Park, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.
To be really honest, I needed to reread this book like 3 times and looked for underlying meanings and messages before I read this book to my 5 years old son. Because this book was so metaphorical with deep messages. I am 31 years old woman was having hard time to decipher the underlying contexts, really curious how 5 to 8 years old take on this book since this book target audiences are those in that age range.
As for my own 5 years old son, he found difficulty understanding this book. I encouraged him to discuss what his opinions about the story. We reread this book so many times to finally aligned his takes on the story with mine. We concluded that this book mainly quest was to not hold anger. You definitely can get mad at someone and/or something but you need to let it go in healthy ways so it's not eating you up from the inside. My son and I also believed that this book wants us to freely express what we feels.
I am not 100% sure whether what we (my son and I) think about the story and its messages are correct or not. This book was actually (really) hard to understand, even for me. Maybe it's just my comprehension that not in right level to understand this book. Either way, I definitely will reread this book in the future (with my son, of course) to get better understanding on everything going on in this book.
The illustrations were giving painting vibes. Full of soft colors that frankly kinda gloomy (and sad) for children books.
This book definitely is not the kind of children books I usually read to my son. But it was actually fun reading experience since this book opened up long discussion with my son.
Thank you to Beatrice Alemagna, Astra Publishing House, Hippo Park, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.