An incredible book that teaches children how to create and use their ideas to achieve a goal. Beautiful little book. I recommend this for your children.

This beautifully illustrated book has several important messages. It shows how helping others can also help oneself, and that ingenuity is rewarded. Many discoveries were accidentally found, as is true in this instance. I especially like that the story encourages children to become problem-solvers.

Wonderful story with perfect illustrations.........

A wonderful tale about the importance of working and helping others. Beautifully illustrated, this book talks about a boy who is asked for a favor, and his reward. I always enjoy children's stories with lessons and morals, and this one didn't disappoint!

I did not like this book. It felt really incomplete. The kid goes into the woods, meets an old lady who gives him good advice and then vanishes. So far, so good. He uses the wood to make a bridge, makes money and apparently lives happily ever after. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like I read the synopsis of a book, not a real book itself. It has so good information in the back for discussion, but I find myself really unimpressed by the whole thing.

A resourceful boy who loves to make things meets an old woman near a stream. The old woman points out a problem fish are having: old sticks piled up in the river are not allowing the fish to get upstream to eat. But, she also tells the boy that the sticks are treasure and worth as much as gold. Though the woman disappears before the boy understands, he decided to help the fish anyway and clear the sticks. As he finishes, the boy discovers how those sticks are as valuable as gold.

The Bridge of the Golden Wood illustrates how there are opportunities around us, even for children, to make money and to help others. The book also includes ideas and examples of how kids can earn money if they are so inclined.

Once there was a boy who liked to make things is how this wonderful book starts out. The young boy meets an old lady at the stream he was playing in. She was staring at the water which was blocked by branches. She told the boy that this could be treasure or trouble. Trouble because the fish could not get through to food and treasure because the boy could do something with the wood. The boy thinks about and decides to help the fish. In doing so he turns the wood into treasure by his bundle of sticks being mistaken at first for a bridge. The boy ends up being able to make a living and help his family by allowing people to pay to cross his bridge.

This is really a great book and very short. I love books for the kids that teach them a lesson as well as being fun for them. At the back of the book there are some ideas for the kids to make money. Wonderful conversation starters for you and the kids.

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When a boy comes across an old woman near the bank of the river, he learns an important life lesson. The woman points out the sticks and wood that have fallen across the river, blocking the fish from swimming downstream. The boy decides that he must do something and decides to see if it can be fixed. Beautiful illustrations and a good story.

The Bridge of the Golden Wood is written as a parable on how to make a living, at least that’s what the cover says. Its like fable that has a lesson though the lesson is not of an overly moral nature in this story. The point of the story is if you do this one thing you can earn money, but in an obtuse round about way.



Without the “lesson” the story is a good one and enjoyable. It also is a lesson in cultures as this story is one from China.



There is a touch of mystery and magic and the illustrations are quite lovely. I think a broad range of booklingets would enjoy this story!


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The book reminds me of the legends I read when I was a little kid. Legends always with a message to learn. Be hard-worker and you’ll receive a reward. That’s what happens to the boy in this story.
At the end of the story, there are some pieces of advice which were very difficult to read because the size of the letters was very small. They are very good to encourage children to do some works. However, I think there is a big gap between the age of the children reading the book and the age of the children doing those kinds of works.
Although the pictures are very nice, one thing I don’t understand is why is there a raccoon in nearly every page of the book?
I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book.

Rating:
★★★★★ = I loved this book and would reread it to my children in the future.

Genre:
Childrens books

Plot:
A young boy learns a valuable lesson from an old woman he meets during his adventures

Pros:
1.) Well illustrated
2.) A good read for kids of all ages
3.) The length of the book is good for children with short attention spans.
4.) Children can learn from this book, not just look at pictures.


Cons:
1.) It is short. This is a good thing for fidgety children, not so much a good thing for older ones.


Quotes:
"Trouble and Treasure"


My thoughts:
I read this book to my children ages 3, 5, and 9. The three-year-old particularly loved the photos and proceeded to ask a million different questions about them which I loved. Any book that gets the conversation going is a good book in my eyes! My nine-year-old enjoyed the book as well. He did end up reading the book on his own later that day which was surprising to me because he doesn't tend to read much on his own. Personally, I like that the book kept my kids interested. The bit at the very end with ideas for kids on how to be frugal was awesome too. All in all a great read. I would love to read more books by this author to my children. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Premio Publishing for the free ARC. I had some issues with the PDF I could not get the words to enlarge so the text and pictures were too small. I had difficulty reading it and showing the pictures to anyone.. A 4 year old asked me why the boy kept turning into a red panda? It certainly appeared that way on several occasions. The story was simple and straightforward. Interesting parable.

Color me not impressed. This story is supposed to be a parable on how to earn a living. A boy sets out in the woods, meets a woman who asks him to collect the sticks in the water so the fish might eat. Along comes a stranger who pays the boy to walk over the “bridge” he has created, and from now on, he spends his days getting paid for people to walk over his bridge. It’s supposed to be a life lesson on working and providing for your family, but I didn’t think it was that well done. The story was kind of boring and too simple.

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The Bridge of the Golden Wood is a lovely retelling of a folk tale about earning a living. The illustrations are beautiful and the simple story of a boy taking the advice of an old woman and clearing a log to enable fish to eat demonstrates how helping others can result in a treasure. I love the simplicity of this story. I gave this four stars because of the visibility of the words on the page.

Lovely illustrations, and a very simple, very short story that can be interpreted many ways. This would be interesting to see what themes students could come up.

The illustrations provide beautiful, and different viewpoints of this boy's experiences. The story gives readers the idea that doing good deeds can lead to personal success. My only for complaint is there are two small areas in the book that give unneeded clarification to the events taking place. It creates a small ripple in an otherwise very smooth and flowing story. Many children and adukts will like this proverb and the beautiful illustrations throughout.

'The Bridge of the Golden Wood: A Parable on How to Earn a Living' by Karl Beckstrand with illustrations by Yaniv Cahoua is a story to spark imagination and innovation in young minds.

A child walking in the woods runs into some fish who are stuck. He finds a way to help the fish, and it turns into a chance to make some money.

The story gently teaches the story. The boy helps the fish, and ends up providing a service. There are additional activities in the back of the book to reinforce the lessons of the story.

It's a simply told story. The illustrations are rather nice. I liked the fact that the story wasn't so heavy-handed.

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This was a parable on how to earn money and I really enjoyed it. The images were great as was the morale to the story. 4 stars from me

This little gem is a book to encourage children to not just find clever and innovative ideas, but to use those ideas to better their lives. A little boy comes across a stream where an elder woman is concerned about branches that are blocking the fish from passing along. She encourages the boy to find a solution.

Now the illustrations are lovely, which in this house is important to my children. There's this little fox that seems to follow the boy around that my two middle children thought was the cutest. And he kind of is.

At the end of the book there even a few suggestions for children to encourage them to build their own business and make their own money. I thought this was a nice touch and some of the ideas were things I hadn't thought of encouraging my boys to do. I think they plan on doing one or two this summer even.

I would recommend this book to any family with children. It's an all ages book that can be read allowed at bed time or read in their own reading time.