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If Kids Ran The World (2014)

by Leo & Diane Dillon(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

054544196X (ISBN13: 9780545441964)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

The Blue Sky Press

review 1: From the title, I expected this book to be a fun, silly story, with ideas such as "...pizza would be served every day for lunch." Instead, the thoughts on each page focus on very lofty ideals like "No matter how sick people were, they would have the medicine they needed," most of which no kid or adult could really accomplish. That being said, the messages or morals on each page are decent ones, and it could be nice to read through with a child asking "how could we do this?", or just pointing to the multi-cultural children in the colorful pictures and noting what each is doing and how they are interacting or playing nicely together. Most of the book in written in the typical format of a children's book: a few lines of text on each page with large, colorful pictures. Howe... morever, the last two pages, after the end of the main story, are filled with paragraphs of text about "What kids are doing now." This adds practicality to the lofty ideals of the rest of the book, with ideas such as starting a lemonade stand and donating the money to help disaster victims. However, if the intent is to inspire children to take steps to make the world a better place, then this part should really be incorporated in smaller chunks onto the other pages of the book, as no child will want to read and digest blocks of text at the end of a picture book. *I received this book for free through a Goodreads FirstReads giveaway.
review 2: M.m.m... Of course everything mentioned in this book is what one would wish for the world. It feels like there could be more to it... Even in the back matter where more things that kids are doing are just mentioned, maybe there could be actual specifics of what and where kids have contributed. Leo Dillion's last work makes this bittersweet. I did really like this wish, "Everyone would learn the happiness of being thankful." less

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