The Make-Believers
The Make-Believers
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Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Annotation: From America's favorite television host and media personality, Ryan Seacrest, and his sister, Meredith Seacrest, comes a debut picture book that celebrates the surprising power of your wild, wonderful imagination and how it can change your whole world.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #391080
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2024
Edition Date: 2024 Release Date: 10/08/24
Illustrator: Lui, Bonnie,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 1-665-94987-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-665-94987-3
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2024009311
Dimensions: 23 x 29 cm.
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

TV presenter and producer Ryan Seacrest and his sister, Meredith Seacrest Leach, encourage readers to use their imaginations to the fullest"You can be a make-believer," the authors tell readers. Your mind can take you anywhere-up and away in a hot air balloon, blasting off on a rocket ship, or traveling across a rainbow, atop a majestic unicorn. Clouds transform into colorful fish; a child joins a llama in song. Though the simple, stream-of-consciousness text accompanying these images suggests that there's no wrong way to daydream, it nevertheless offers examples in case readers feel a bit stumped. And once dreams become bold enough, they may serve to improve young people's lives. These are laudable messages but ones that are clumsily delivered. The prose is tepid, verging on cliched ("Dreams to dream while the sun shines bright, and your eyes are wide open"). The authors deem these vivid experiences "Dreamy Moments"-which feels like an at best distracting and at worse cynical attempt to commodify childhood wonder. Visually, a digitally rendered palette of mellow hues emphasizes comfy purples, warm oranges, and calm aquatic blues and greens. The cast of children traipsing through the scenes are diverse in terms of race and ability and include kids using wheelchairs and hearing aids.Lukewarm attempts at sparking creativity.(Picture book. 4-8)

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Reading Level: 2.0
Interest Level: K-3

From America’s favorite host and media personality, Ryan Seacrest, and his sister, Meredith Seacrest Leach, comes a debut picture book that celebrates the surprising strength of a child’s wild, wonderful imagination and how it can change the whole world.

You might think dreams only exist at night,
when the moon is glowing, and your eyes are shut tight.
But what if I told you there’s another kind of dreaming?
All you have to do is make believe.
Because you can be a Make-Believer!

Encourage little ones everywhere to imagine big, to dream far, and to always follow their hearts with this delightful book about the transformative power of play.


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