A Review of BEAUTIFUL by Stacy McAnulty by Lynne Marie

BEAUTIFUL...

Written by Stacy McAnulty

Illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff

Published by Running Kids Press, 2016

Editor: Lisa Cheng

Genre: Fiction PB 

Age Range: 3-6 

The beautifully-written book conveys important thoughts about the diversity of Beauty. Beauty can be found in messy hair, the face of a pirate, a messy art project and more. 

Beautiful girls have the perfect look...

Because the author is somewhat vague and non-specific as to the definition of beauty, the text, along the art, speaks volumes and reinforces that there is no one way to beautiful or do beautiful things. Also, the reader will have fun engaging in the imperfect, but perfect art which adds important details to the story. 

I personally love the message that there are COUNTLESS ways to look beautiful. And in every case, these begin with being YOU. It's an important concept to share with little ones, which I also feel is appropriate to older girls and Girl Scouts, as well. 

Tell a girl they are beautiful by getting a copy of this book for her at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Goodreads

ISBN-10: 0762457813

FOR MORE ON BEAUTIFUL, please check out the blog tour on the following blogs over the next two weeks: 

8/29 Flowering Minds

8/30 Kids’ Book Review
8/31 My Word Playground
9/1 Stacking Books
9/2 Unpacking the POWER of Picture Books
9/3 MomReadIt
9/5 Enjoy Embrace Learning
9/6 Geo Librarian
9/7 A Foodie Bibliophile
9/8 MamaBelly
9/10 Diapers and Daydreams
9/11 The Late Bloomer’s Book Blog
9/12 Unconventional Librarian

NOTE: As always my thoughts are my own.