booknerd_life's reviews
216 reviews

So freaking cute! I love Tounome and Yakou so much. Their relationship is so precious and sweet and wholesome. I loved the scene at the flower shop where they were swooning over one another.

This book started off so strongly. It’s mainly about Hiroki and Yuri’s Dad coming back into the picture. It took him 5 volumes, but I’m glad the Dad finally experienced growth and changed his ways. It was my favorite part because it really shows how people really are capable of change, and that the love for your child trumps all. 

I just wish we had more storyline. I wanted to see an explicit coming out for Hiroki, whether it be to just Yuri, or Asumi, or Daigo, or his parents. Hiroki has spent his entire life hiding his true self, I wish we got to see him be comfortable in the finale of this series. 

I also wish we got more time with Yuri. It appeared he was aromantic asexual, but the book only used the word asexual. Kinda a big pet peeve of mine when authors use aromantic traits/behavior to explain asexuality. They are two completely different things.

This was so cute!! I love how Itsuomi is slowly learning more and more sign language to be able to communicate with Yuki.

I loved how this book depicts activism and how sometimes things don’t always work out the way we want them too, so we must rise up and try again. I really enjoyed the art style and the color choices used as they support the author’s message and provide points of emphasis. I also loved the last page providing descriptions of real life young environmental activists.

But this gets a 3 stars because its text is so simplistic that this book would require active discussion and commentary for the full message to get across to young ones.

I taught my first ever social studies read aloud with this book! The kids enjoyed it and so did I. The terracotta army is such a fascinating topic!

Loved this one! An informational read about our plastic usage and how we need to take measures to reduce, reuse, and recycle our plastic consumption. It shows how real life children are standing up and making a change.

This was such a cute story about self-love and acceptance. Illustrations depicting all sorts of kids from from different backgrounds and having different abilities. Beautiful messaging, and beautiful illustrations letting everyone know that they are enough.

A heart-wrenching and heartwarming read based on the true story of Margarito’s forest. This story was filled with so much beauty and so much truth. The illustrations were a nice touch that tied together photos of the forest with illustrations from local school children.

Oh my goodness I LOVED this book! Such a cute story of Laxmi learning to love her body hair and demonstrating that yes, girls have body hair too and that’s perfectly normal and beautiful!

This volume was so cute! Very focused on Anya! I love reading her thoughts, she’s so adorable.