The idea is fun, though pretty implausible. We don't know how old is Alice, but as long as she's able to talk with her grandma and intuitively understand that "Ich liebe dich" means "I love you" she'll probably learn to speak German in no time and be able to use whatever are the German words for flour, dinner, bread or pie. Children learn very easily this kind of things.
However, let's play along and pretend Alice doesn't speak German. She gets the message from her mom and off she goes to grandma's. Trying to remember what she has to say, Alice keeps repeating the words but she's constantly altering them. That was supposed to be fun but there are about 12 pages of slight variations of "Can I itch my borgen?" and it's waaay too much. A couple would suffice for some laughs.
Or perhaps it's meant to teach about farm life, since Alice changes the message every time she sees an animal.

I can see that this children's book is going to be popular with my younger grandchildren! Such a lovely story of a young girl on her way to visit her grandma with a message. A German message that she tried hard to remember. I could feel the warmth and love of her grandma upon her arrival. Loved the illustrations.

My thanks to Netgalley and the Publishers for my copy. This is my honest review.

This is a lovely concept, the idea of the game of telephone, but played with only one person. A child is sent to deliver a message in German to her German speaking grandmother, and she has to walk the whole way from one side of the farm to the other.

As I have said, the concept is good, but why, oh why was no translation given for the sentence the girl had to memorize. Or for what her grandmother said when she garbled the message. And perhaps that wasn't important, but to end on that note?

We need good editors.

I would have rated this lower, but I think it has potential.

It could be learning about German. It could have been how the girl could have gotten her message across with mime, even though she had garbled the message. It could have been better. And perhaps it will be, but in its present form, it is tiring, and annoying.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.