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

This book was cute. The pictures were bright and colorful. The story flowed well and the main character was likable and learned a good lesson.

Finding Lucy by Eugenie Fernandes is a warm story with a powerful message. It tells the story of a little girl that loves to paint. What she paints doesn’t make everyone happy, so she makes a change.

Throughout the story Lucy tries to paint pictures that everyone will like. Along the way she finds that she is no longer happy. She has lost her confidence in trying to please others.

Finding Lucy is a book that teaches children it is okay if no one else understands. What’s important is that you are happy and proud of your work. It doesn’t matter if you’re the only one that understands it.

The book teaches children to be self-confident. Something that every child needs to succeed in life. One of the final quotes in the book emphasizes this as Lucy starts painting what she likes. “You might find this hard to believe”, she said, “but I’m starting to feel like myself again.”

Eugenie Fernandes’ writing flows with an easy rhythm. Young kids will grasp the message the book is trying to get across. It also opens up conversations between children and parents. With whimsical illustrations to go along with the story, this book is a pleasure for adults and kids to read together.

This is a wonderful book for artists of all ages! Lucy is happily painting with her very supportive cat, when a rabbit shows up and gives his opinion of her painting. Soon other animals come by and give their opinions as well. They all a suggestion on how to improve her paintings. Lucy keeps changing her work trying to please everyone but herself. The more she listens to others and tries to please them, the less she enjoys her painting. Her cat reminds her that she used to paint what she liked and that made her happy. She realizes that is what she wants to feel and begins a new painting for herself. I love this message! Any artist, of any medium will be happiest when their work portrays what they want it to, not what everyone else wants it to. The big message; Stay True to Yourself. The story is told in a bright and amusing way. There is a lot of vocabulary that will be fun to explain and talk about. I loved the gorgeous illustrations. They were full of vibrant colour and detail. This is a great book to share with children whether they are artists or not. Everyone has a talent that they can enjoy.

My daughters and I absolutely adored this book! The illustrations and adorable story were perfect for my girls ages, 6 and 9.
The message it send about being true to yourself spoke not only to my girls, but to me as well.
It was a beautiful story and perfect for young children everywhere to see they can be just who they were meant to be!

A whimsical story that teaches about self-confidence and believing in your own ideas. The character Lucy is swayed by each critique of her art. She attempts to fix her painting for each new passer-by, only to contradicted by the next person who critiques it. In the end, she finds what makes her happiest, and that's what her art should be about.

Excellent creativity in the storyline, with a good message for youngsters to believe in yourself. Cute illustrations.

This is a wonderful book for artists of all ages! The message of being true to yourself and your art is a great one for kids, but adults need to remember this too. Our protagonist Lucy is happily painting with her very supportive cat, when an anthropomorphic rabbit shows up and gives his opinion of her painting. Soon other animals come by and give there opinions too, telling her how to improve her paintings. Before long, she starts trying to please them instead of herself, and starts to lose her joy in creating. Her cat gently reminds her how she used to paint what she liked, and she realizes she misses that, and gets to work on a new painting for herself. I love this message! Any artist, any creator, will be happiest when their work portrays what they want it to, not what everyone else wants it to, so stay true to yourself! The story is told in a bright and amusing way, with lots of big fun words to chew on, and the illustrations are just gorgeous, filled with lush color and detail. I especially enjoyed Lucy's abstract art- I like her use of color. Get this book for the artist in your life!

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Absolutely touching, wonderful, and lovely book. This is a fabulous choice for storytime not only because the pictures are stunning and the rhymes are sweet, but it covers many different themes: friendship, believing in yourself, creativity, artwork, regaining confidence, friendship, and expressing yourself. So wonderfully charming and one you will want on hand to recommend!

Lucy has painted a picture, and everyone has opinions on what it needs. As Lucy takes everyone's opinions into consideration, she looses more and more of herself and what made painting special to her in the first place. In the end, Lucy decides to return to painting for herself.

Finding Lucy is a story about being true to yourself. I thought the story was alright. It was overly busy throughout the text, and I didn't love the illustrations.

This is a book about a little girl who keeps changing her painting trying to please others instead of herself. I think the lesson in it is an excellent one to teach. The illustrations are beautiful and very colorful. I think in the book saying where the characters leave to is a little random and my only criticism. This book is definitely one I would buy though and read to my daughters.

This book was given to me an an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in an exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated in any way.

Lucy is a free-spirited young girl with a talent for painting beautiful imaginative things like the colour of laughter, the flutter of birds, and the impulsiveness of the wind. She gets lost in her masterpieces and her heart is at peace while she is creating. Each stroke of her brush brings her happiness and contentment.

One day a snooty rabbit reporter who came from the Daily News critiques her work and shatters her self confidence. While she is painting the colour of laughter on her canvas he points out that her painting looks utterly ridiculous and it looks more like JELLYBEAN SOUP! Oh my! Lucy feels so hurt and crushed by his mean words. A variety of other animals pay her a visit and voice their opinion too as to what her painting should look like. Poor Lucy keeps making changes to appease her critics and in so doing becomes very unhappy and despondent indeed.

In the midst of all these nay-sayers Lucy learns a very valuable life lesson. She discovers that the most important thing is to be true to yourself and not try to always please others. Her faithful loving cat encourages her to return to her own style of creating and when she takes his advice her happiness returns.

The illustrations are whimsical and full of colour with lots of detail. Young readers will ascertain that it's important to follow your own heart and your own uniqueness because those two things will bring happiness to your soul. I highly recommend this book.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with this book and this publisher. I’m glad I get to work with books like this.

This was a sweet book but it was all over the place without a clear plot. Lucy is constantly changing her painting to please everyone and it becomes a mess. She is also not happy with her painting since it has changed so much. It gets muddled with animals’ side stories.

Thank you Netgally for the e-arc of this children's book.

After receiving a full e-copy of Finding Lucy I am here to change my review.

This adorable story of a little girl who just wants to paint had me on a world wind of emotions.

I went from feeling sad to happy and then overjoyed for Lucy at the end of the book.

5 star read *****

This is a breathtaking tale. It’s art work is stunning and the message behind it is so cleverly built among the funny stuff that my children listened to the whole thing. They laughed and begged to hear it again. And as a mother, I’m happy to have them reading books with such great messages of self confidence, self awareness and love for your own voice. I would definitely recommend this book.