A sweet and dreamy book about a little girl who is looking up into the sky and thinks about all the beautiful things she can see and where her imagination can take her. Then, she realizes that all that makes her happy is right in front of her. A beautifully-illustrated book with a wonderful text and a great message of using your imagination powers to wonder about the world around you, but also loving what you have.
Thank you to NetGalley and Clavis Publishing for the ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

This is a short, fun book about a little girl who loves looking into the sky and daydreaming. This book is sweet and beautifully illustrated. I liked the message and the idea of the story, but it wasn't quite as engaging as I had hoped and the ending was a bit bland. Probably not my style, but one I think plenty of kids would be drawn to.

Thank you to NetGalley and Clavis Publishing Inc. for providing me an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

A little girl looks up at the clouds and imagines that she sees different shapes and objects. She always looks up throughout each day and uses her imagination to guess what the situation would be like. With so much wondering, sometimes it’s nice to know exactly what you have and be happy with it.

When I Look Up follows a little girl who has her gaze turned upward. We see what she sees, from shooting stars to kites stuck in trees, and listen to her wishes as she wonders what it would be like to be up in the sky.

I'm not really a fan of the way this one is written. While the premise is okay, the almost free-verse style just seems like regular sentences where someone forgot the punctuation... which I don't really like seeing in children's books. I also don't understand the page about the rabbit sitting on the moon and the girl's wish to feed it carrots. Everything else in the book (from giraffes to balloons to dandelion fluff) is at least plausible. What's up with the rabbit?!

The illustrations are colourful and interesting, but they're of a style that almost looks like a child drew them. That can work in some instances, and I suppose it works here... but I'm not a huge fan of the pictures.

So When I Look Up was just okay for me. I might've liked it better without that weird spread with the astronaut rabbit. I'm still trying to figure that part out...

Thank you Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This was a short, cute storybook about a little girl with an active imagination who dreams about doing so many things. Each page takes us through her wishes. While the illustrations were fun and imaginative, I wasn't impressed by the ending it seemed quite bland compared to what the little girl was imagining.