Save It! by Cinders McLeod –OPTIONAL

Save It! by Cinders McLeod. PICTURE BOOK. Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin), 2019. $17. 9781984812407

BUYING ADVISORY:  EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Honey is Bunny who is sick of her loud little siblings. She wants her own house, but that’s way too expensive. With the help of her dad she learns that she can save money (carrots) for her own playhouse, if she works hard and doesn’t spend it on little things. Features large and bright illustrations.

Who doesn’t want their child to be one that saves money? That being said the story is fairly linear and a bit contrived, there are no setbacks, or plot. Feels like a book adults wrote for kids to learn a lesson outright. Almost just like telling them about saving, which you could do without a book. Children reading stories know this, that’s why stories in ELA books feel so fake and irritating to read, they weren’t written as a story that happened to have lessons,  they were written as a lesson story.

Reviewer: Stephanie MLS & Author