Touch the Brightest Star

This book is absollutely wonderful. When I first started reading it, I had no idea how the book would grow and evolve and I was just pleasantly surprised at how it flowed into such a happy, comforting ending. Every page was a discovery. Enchanting little folk art illustrations. Great "little kid" vocabulary. Well thought out design. When you get to the end, you could easily see how a youg child would want to have it read to them every night before bed. But there is also a deeper value that this book has that must be mentioned and that is how it offers a valuable contribution to literacy. I realize that it is not hard to read a book aloud to young children. But, it is rather difficult to learn to become an entrancing story teller to young children. Especially itty bitty children! Many young parents try to engage their children through reading aloud, but it takes just a bit of practice and skills to hold their attention, encourage that all important interactive exchange and feel like you have changed the world that you and the young child live in because of that shared eperience of reading a selected book. (sorry about the length of that sentence!) This book just provides a natural format for successful interaction while reading and ensures a happy, satisfying ending. It is difficult not to let out a happy sigh when you see the final illustration and read the last words! The illustrations provide just enough drama for a very young child that after a few repetitions of nightly reads that they might blurt out their predictions of upcoming events in the book. These are the little things that occur during reading that make the parent feel successful as a parent who reads to their children because you can see that it makes a difference in the child. Reading aloud to children should be an insanely happy experience! This book is the unique type of interactive book where the story finds the parent and helps the parent grow as a reader to their young child. The parent and the child grow into a family that reads aloud. The child's literacy blossoms and learning is a joy. The parent becomes a story teller. Life doesn't get much better than that. Other than that . . .it was a charming story. ;-). Mrs. L.

My 2year old grandson loves this book. It’s a beautiful book that is interactive. I highly recommend it.

This is easily our toddler's favorite book, he likes to point out the "manoons", or as we would call it the moon haha. I really enjoyed this gal's style of writing books so much so that I have now purchased every single one she makes. Your kid will love this and you should also purchase the tree one as well as the flower one, All great books. 10 out of 10.

This is the cutest interactive book. We discovered it through the library and just had to get a copy for ourselves.

So cute bc it guides you to touch a star, swipe the sky & interacts thru the story. One of my 5yo favorites

We bought this board book for our 2 year old twins. The book is interactive asking the reader to "touch the firefly" and then when you turn the page, more fireflies appear. The book has no flaps, sounds or parts. We like that the story asks them to look for things on the page and make an action. The actual story and rhyming is ok. Not the best book we have for bedtime but also not the worst.

Its handsome. My grand daughter loves this book at 3 years old.

My family loves reading these books. They are interactive books for young kids. Reading them is like magic! This one we bought as a gift for an early childhood educator.

It's a sweet bedtime story and my kids love it. The illustrations are charming. The story prompts the kid to touch the page or wave as the sky gets darker...

This is for very young children. My 4 year old wasn’t overly impressed. Nice book but it doesn’t do anything, which is what expected from the terms used like ‘touch the brightest star’ and turn the page to make a change’.

This is a must have book for kids that enjoy story time, and even more so for kids that don’t enjoy reading because it invites them to interact with the book and become a part of the story itself! My daughter got it for her 2nd birthday and started engaging with it immediately, it became the first book we could get all the way through and it wasn’t long until she memorized all the actions for the book and now she will do all the prompts without anyone even reading it to her. It became her favourite book and I really wish there was more like it in the same age range! Recommend for all 2 year olds

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Alla mia bimba di 2 anni e mezzo è piaciuto molto. Ha preferito l’altro della stessa autrice ma anche questo lo chiede spesso. Consegna ok pacco integro