Welcome to the Life’s A Beach Giveaway Hop! Lots of blogs are hosting giveaways, so be sure you enter those after you are done here. Find out more about the latest book from Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant, It Is (Not) Perfect. Thanks to the publisher, I’ve got a copy of the book for one of you. I’m throwing in a $5 Amazon Gift Card for the winner. Maybe you can buy a beach ball!
Thanks to our hosts, The Kids Did It & The Mommy Island.
It Is (Not) Perfect
by Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant
I received this book free to review; however, all opinions are my own. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive compensation at no cost to you.
32 pages
Publisher: Two Lions
Publication Date: May 12, 2020
Two fuzzy creatures are happily putting the finishing touches on their sandcastle when each of them thinks of something that would make it even better. As they work furiously to incorporate each new change, their tiny sandcastle becomes an over-the-top palace…but is it really perfect?
This latest book in the beloved series featuring the pals from Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner You Are (Not) Small reminds us that perfection is in the eye—and heart—of the beholder.
It is (Not) Perfect Book Review
It Is (Not) Perfect is the fifth book in the You Are Not Small series by Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant. This series stars two animal (maybe bears!) friends who learn different lessons in a few pages with minimal text and fun, colorful pictures. In this book, they learn that “perfect” means different things depending on who is looking at it, and how you look at it. The “it” in this case is a sandcastle.
I used to love playing in the sand building tunnels and castles. Of course, the sand has to be wet to make the sand stick together, so when you’re at the beach, you build pretty close to the water. Otherwise, one of you (usually the youngest) gets stuck having to run back and forth with the bucket to get water. If you’re building in your sandbox, you just take the hose down to the sandbox.
Back to the point…I don’t think our sandcastles ever looked the same twice, yet they were always perfect to us. One time we might have seashells for decorations and another time seaweed instead. Beauty and perfection are in the eye of the beholder as these two friends find out. And bigger doesn’t always mean better! Your kids will really enjoy having you read this cute book with them!
Praise for the book, It Is (Not) Perfect
“Colorful cartoon illustrations add a lightheartedness to what could be a stressful real-life situation for kids. Another life lesson neatly packaged in child centric humor.” —Kirkus Reviews
“This award-winning duo have created a lovely tribute to the old adage that perfect is the enemy of good. Recommended for purchase for all collections.” —School Library Journal
About the authors
Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant are the creators of Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner You Are (Not) Small as well as series titles That’s (Not) Mine, I Am (Not) Scared, and We Are (Not) Friends. They also wrote and illustrated Eraser, which was honored with The Christopher Award in 2019, Can I Tell You a Secret?, and Will You Help Me Fall Asleep? Christopher’s work can also be seen in The New Yorker, and his cartoons are syndicated worldwide. This husband-and-wife team lives in New Jersey with their two daughters and their rescue dog. Visit them at www.annakang.com and www.christopherweyant.com.
Watch the author read You Are (Not) Small
Anna reads several of her other books too on her YouTube channel! She just added these during the quarantine. This is so fun! Make sure you check them out with your kids.
Enter the giveaway ENDED
One lucky winner will receive a copy of the book It Is (Not) Perfect, courtesy of Two Lions (U.S. addresses only). The same winner will receive a $5 Amazon Gift Card courtesy of me.
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It is fun to build sand castles. It is important to build your sand castle well back from the water’s edge so it won’t get washed away immediately/
My family would go to the St Pete beach while growing up and each year we would try and do a family castle. I am one of 7 siblings so there were a lot working on it.
I have never been into building sand castles on the beach. I don’t care to have sand in a wet bathing suit chafing my creases and crevices. If you want to torture me, this would work. Were I to stumble upon a beautiful, well-made, neither too wet nor too dry sand castle, I would marvel at it. I would explore it. I would try to learn from it. I wouldn’t touch it. I might photograph it.
LOL that is very true!
I used to build sandcastles all the time at a beach near my home. I tried to build them far from the water so that it would not wash away!
im terrified if getting bit by something in the sand so i kind of hate it…
My uncle got stung by a jelly fish once! I make sure to watch out for them!
i absolutely love the ocean and dolphins. i even got a dolphin tattoo
I rarely go to the beach anymore but as a kid I would look for sharks teeth! After all these years I still have my collection. 🙂
I love building sand castles at our state park beach. It’s so nice to have my feet in the sand and listen to the waves crash while I build.
I did not play in the sand
I’ve built sandcastles before and am not too good, ha!
I remember building with those toy sets as a kid, it never got too intricate so it was more like sand… buildings? The little shapes like crabs and seahorses were my favorite.
I have built sandcastles when we spent time on the beach but it didn’t come out very well.
I would love to build sand castles with my kiddos! We haven’t been to the beach in awhile!
I’m a water girl. I love the beach! And I love to build sandcastles! 🙂
Never been to a beach so never built sandcastles.
I do like to build the occasional sand castle. I haven’t been to the ocean since I was a kid but I do live less than a half an hour from Lake Michigan.
Love building sandcastles with my daughter. Our favorite place to build them is the beach in Jamaica.
I still love to build sandcastles, the beach in Monterey is one of my favorite places to build them.
I really have very little experience with sandcastles. I’m from Iowa and I now live in Arizona so no beaches!
I don’t like sand that much. When I was little, I used to build sandcastles at the jersey shore.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where the beaches were rocky. I made rock sculptures more often that not.
That’s really cool!
Building sandcastles at the beach is a fun warm weather activity. It helps to have square and round buckets to make the shapes different. I’ve seen a Sandcastle Competition at the beach and the sculptures were big and smooth. At the Children’s Museum, a Sand Castle exhibit had the kids eyeing the life-size art with wonder.
I built sand castles on the beach, at the river banks, and in my own yard in the sand box!
All these activities take me to my childhood and to the time spend with my kiddos. Magical.
don’t like building sandcastles
I love to build sand castles with my daughter.
I used to build sandcastles when I was little. I live in Florida, but I don’t go to the beach too frequently anymore. It costs a lot to go to some of the nicer beaches around here because you have to park in public parking garages. Sometimes it’s a flat rate fee for the entire day and other times its a high amount for the first hour then plus $1-2 per additional hour.
Yes, it’s too bad that you have to pay for parking. It shouldn’t be so expensive.
Awesome giveaway! I hope I win:) Thank you for the opportunity!
It’s been a while since I’ve been to the beach but I did enjoy building sandcastles when I was young.