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Free Kid to Good Home
Free Kid to Good Home | Hiroshi Ito
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An hilarious story about sibling rivalry and a child's impulse to run away from home--(and come back again!) "When my squawking baby brother arrived, I realized I needed a new family. No one seemed to mind when I packed my bag. I took a box and used my best handwriting to write 'FREE KID', then waited for some new parents to take me home." Waiting in a box like an abandoned pet and encountering the passersby changes the girl's perspective. At the end of the day, when her parents pretend they need an older sister for their new baby, she is ready to leave her box and go happily back home. In this comical twist on sibling rivalry, a girl decides she needs a new family--so she writes Free Kid on a box and waits in the street for some better parents to choose her. Translated from the Japanese edition, this accessible story is perfect for children starting on independent reading and is illustrated in a graphic comic style that really captures childlike subversive humor. Ideal for fans of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. A useful book to teach young children about welcoming a new baby sibling to the family, or exploring playful sibling relationships, through funny and lighthearted storytelling.
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Free Kid to Good Home | Hiroshi Ito
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Panpan

1 ⭐ I don‘t know if this galley is purposely missing most of the illustrations or not but I‘m not impressed. The thing about a picture book is it needs the pictures to help tell the story, so reading the story without pictures is very lacking. There‘s no movement just a plethora of words dumped on the page. Without the pictures to help move the story along this is boring and uninteresting.