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Gracie Jane

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I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

An adorable book. Love the main character. The pictures are great, the story is fun. Young readers will love it.

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Super cute story about a little girl and her puppy and their adventures/troubles.

The illustrations are vivid and beautiful.

My daughter really enjoyed it.

Thanks netgalley for my free copy

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Cute and a fun little read. I found the illustrations quite charming and would definitely recommend this author.

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I'm not sure if it was just me or not, but half of the story seemed to be missing. The illustrations were adorable. I could see Gracie Jane being a cartoon on Disney Channel.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review Gracie Jane.

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This book is such a sweet title.
The illustrations are incredible and add a layer of lustre and sweetness to the book.

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Gracie Jane is a cute story that includes beautiful illustrations. It is the perfect short-story/picture book for younger children as it contains very little words but an easy to follow story. Overall a very cute children's book.

I received this book from Netgalley.

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Unfortunately there were some issues with this book when I went to review it. Some of the text was missing so the full story was not there. I will not post a review of this book on my site because I do not feel that I can fully evaluate it. I do note that the pictures were bold and colorful. Thanks for the opportunity to see this book: I am sorry that it did not work out better.

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Gracie Jane is a cute short story/picture book with only a few words. The illustrations are page size and well done. I can see younger children latching on to the "Fifi La Rue what did you do?" I think my grand children would enjoy reading it with me. Well done!

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I'll be honest, I'm not really sure what the point of <i>Gracie Jane </i>by Janet Squires is. And, if you're really looking at the book it seems to promote a rather bad idea rather than actually offering a good moral for children to learn. Sure, the artwork is good and I can definitely picture a lot of children giggling quite a bit at the antics of the dog throughout the story and it's definitely commendable to help an animal find a place on a farm when you come across one, however, when you find a dog that has a collar and clearly has been named and belongs to someone else, keeping it for yourself is an absolutely horrid thing to do and I cannot believe that this idea was promoted in a children's book.

What appears to be a book about a girl befriending a dog and trying to help her join farm life completely lost my respect the very moment that the girl read the dog's name off her collar and never made a single attempt to discuss the fact that this was someone else's dog who must have gotten lost. She doesn't speak to her parents about it and <i>then</i> try to find a place for the dog in her life on the farm while her parents try to find the owner, she doesn't make her own effort to find the owner. And I just had a really hard time accepting this.

I would never want a child to build upon the idea that they can just keep any dog they find, whether it's a stray or not. There should have been something about Gracie making an effort to figure out where the dog had come from and return her to her owner. Either that, or it should have just been a dog that the family got on their own. And while the artwork of the book was great and the antics around the farm were interesting, the way in which Gracie Jane got the dog was just plain awful and pretty much ruined the entire book for me.

<i>I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. </i>

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