This is a very cute story! The illustrations are amazing.
The protagonist was great. She had a lot of endearing traits that showed a girl can be both sensitive and strong.
I think children will get a lot of joy identifying the job appilcant characters, offering a great mix of analysis and creativity.

Janet Sumner Johnson's "Help Wanted, Must Love Books" is an adorable and hilarious book. The illustrations are engaging and colorful. The story follows a little girl who is seeking to fill her father's position of bedtime storyteller. She interviews an array of characters before she finds just the right one. This book is captivating and funny.

I love this book! It is a picture book about a girl who looks forward to bedtime stories with her dad each night. This favorite time is disrupted when dad gets a new job and is too busy and distracted for this ritual. Taking matters into her own hands, Shailey advertises for someone to read to her. Readers will chuckle as Shailey edits and modifies her help wanted ad based on the applicants. For a further sense of fun, the applicants are all characters from favorite children's stories. Both adults and children should enjoy recognizing job seekers like Cinderella and Goldilocks. The end of the book is sweet as the best applicant, gets the job.

At the end of the book are amusing personal statements from a few of those seeking employment, including Robin Hood and Tinkerbell. There is also a caution to keep devices and distractions away from story time.

All in all, this was a delightful story with great illustrations. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this book in exchange for an honest review.

So very cute!! I LOVED this picture book and I am looking forward to the author's next installment with this character.

This is a really cute book about a girl who is trying to find a replacement for her dad, who's new job is keeping him from reading her bedtime stories. All kinds of characters (Goldilocks, Snow White, etc.) come to interview and no one is able to fill the position. The illustrations are done very well. Children will love this story!

*thank you to Netgalley, Janet Sumner Johnson and Capstone for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review*


5 stars.

Ohh my stars this was EXCELLENT! It literally had a lot of what I love in a book. It was about Books which, let's face it, is good enough for me right there and doesn't need anything else to accompany it. But it did have more. It was about fairytales and it was surprisingly funny! I giggled at a few of the pages. It really is quite an adorable book. 

It's about a girl named, Shailey. Shailey loves bedtime because that is her special time with her dad to get lost in her fairytale stories. But then her dad is unable to keep doing that with her because he gets a new job that makes him far too busy at that time of the day to sit down and cuddle up and read. So Shailey puts up an advertisement for a new storyteller which kinda doesn't go as she planned. 

This story is sure to make bedtime reading fun. It's a book that is mainly aimed for 4-7 year olds but I reckon that age range can be a lot wider, as even as an adult, I found this to be really entertaining and lovely to look at. 

I can't not mention the illustrations. Courtney Dawson is an amazing illustrator. The use of colours along with the style of the artwork just fit perfectly. This soft kind of art is my favourite for picture books because it has such a gentleness to it that would easily appeal to my younger self. Actually it appeals to my adult self too. The cover design just looks amazing and that is what caught my eye first with this book then it was the title which is so spot on and perfect. 

I can't wait until this is released because it's one that I want to purchase to add to my collection. Definitely highly recommended.

The idea behind the story is good, but the execution sort of lacks sparkle. It was more being able to tell what was going to happen. It was way too easy to guess what was going to happen, but it wasn't being done in way that made it exciting to get it right. It might be different if I were a child to whom all these stories are new. I could be used to get children to predict what would happen, but there are books that would be much better for learning to predict.

This one is a must read! The sweet story about a little girl looking for a replacement bedtime reader after he dad gets a new job that keeps him working late into the night. Lovely illustrations and a smart, spunky protagonist. Delightful. Makes me wish my kids were still small enough to enjoy picture books.

Bedtime is a very important routine for Shailey. She and her daddy always read until they fall asleep. But then her dad gets a new job, and Shailey feels that he's falling down on his reading duties. She's forced to take some stern actions and fires her father. Shailey posts her "help wanted" sign, and gets tons of applicants! Unfortunately, it looks like her favorite fairy-tale characters may be better at starring in the books, not reading them. Will Shailey ever find another bedtime storyteller?

A lovely story about the importance of family bonding. I loved the inclusion of the fairy-tale characters as her applicants and the effort that the father character shows in spending time with Shailey. Very cute!

Thanks to Capstone and NetGalley for the eARC.