Rating: 6/10 The art is pretty good, it's a touching story. Definitely a couple moments of suspense, sorta. The department store aspect doesn't hold up well at all, which is unfortunate. I imagine myself being like, imagine Amazon but it's a whole building
Rating: 8/10 I enjoyed this. It was a fun story, some amusing situations - clearly a book written by someone who's actually funny. Great art. Lessons, of a sort. I don't know if I'd want to read this every day, but there are
Rating: 9/10 This book is, of course, a classic. We have the board book version because real books are lost on our son (and this is what we got as a gift). The art is great, the plot is gripping, it has a solid ending. There's nothing
Rating: 1/10 No story, no point, not enamored with the art. Some okay rhymes, I guess. Honestly I can only imagine liking this if I were, like, 80% less literate. But as someone who actually likes words I found this book really, really tedious. At least it's
Rating: 10/10 A former colleague gave me this book as a gift when we had our son. She said there would be lots of awful books we'd read, so we should have a good one that we can enjoy reading. She was right! I think this is
Rating: 3/10 Who likes bananas this much? Was this sponsored by Dole? It feels like propaganda from Big Banana. I like bananas just fine but this person is way, way over the top about bananas. The art is good, but there's no plot or anything. Just a
Rating: 7/10 I liked the art, the story, and the general concept. A small problem is that this has too many words per page for our 3 month old, so I can't really finish the book without some fidgeting and possibly screaming, which kills the vibe a
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