Fun and very colorful picture book about the life of Prince!

Prince grew up as the son of two jazz musicians in Minneapolis, so he was exposed to music at an early age and developed a deep passion for it. He learned to play multiple instruments and loved the combination of music and dance. He went on to be a very successful and entertaining recording artist.

This book is a great introduction to the musician Prince for the littles. It is full of positive messages about following your dreams and supporting others in your life via your success. Highly recommend for music fans, young and old!

Just simply love "little people big dreams" the whole collection. Prince is also one of my favorite greatest artists among all the big stars.

This was a very age appropriate picture book about Prince that carefully covered the details of his life. As an adult, I understood the illustrations, but I don't think kids would necessarily understand them. With that said, the illustrations were beautiful. The end of the book has a more extensive biography of Prince. I think it handled the story of his life well, and parents could give more information if they wanted to.

A beautiful book about Prince's life and musical and artistic contributions. His life is presented simply with lovely illustrations. The text really illustrates his vibrancy in his music, art, and personality. Prince was supremely talented, iconic, and charismatic. A wonderful addition to this series!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

Adored reading about one of my favorite artists and learned a few things about Prince I didn’t know. Fun, colorful illustrations capture Prince’s style and persona. An excellent book for Prince fans to share with little ones - it will introduce Prince and the artist’s beautiful work while encouraging wee babes to embrace their uniqueness and chase their dreams!

Would’ve loved a bit more about how Prince was not just an uber talented person but was also committed to important social justice issues. Prince followed a plant-based diet out of respect for non-humans. Prince would turn down presents made from the skin and fur - leather, wool, etc.- of other animals because of the suffering involved. The artist wished for animal killing places to be closed, saying, “We need an Animal Rights Day when all slaughterhouses are shut down.”

“Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.” ~Prince

Rest in Power, Prince 💜

Thank you to Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Cachetejack, Quatro Publishing Group - Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, and #NetGallery for an eARC of #Prince in exchange for an honest review. Review will be posted on NetGallery, Goodreads, and Facebook.

I loved this book about Prince but will not adopt it for my classroom use or suggest it for my students to read. My students are so young, they don't even know who this musical legend was and what made him so great. I listened to Prince as a Gen X'er in the 80's. This is one of those books that I would buy and keep for myself for pure nostalgia value. Little kids... get off my book!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. Unfortunately, I do not have the capability to read and review in the protected pdf only format. Thank you for the consideration.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for kindly providing me with a digital copy of this book for review.
Another Little People book that's put a big smile on my face! Can’t believe how many of these books there are now- Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara certainly puts in a lot of hard work to research and write these books, her output is admirable.
What I like about these books is that there is a diverse selection of notable people chosen as the subjects, and Prince (or the artist formerly known as Prince) is definitely a good example of this. I love that this book shows a young boy that took dance lessons, wore high heels as an adult, and refused to be labelled. I think many young children will find Prince’s story inspirational.
The artwork is up to the usual high standard for the Little People books, and I was pleased to see the cover is predominantly purple, because what other colour could you possibly use for Prince. An absolute pleasure to read as always.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.

This story is about Prince ,who was born to a pianist and a jazz singer but this doesn't affect his passion for music .

This story is inspirational for everyone ,showing that be fearless and limitless.

You are the one who will make your dreams come true

An especially colourful installment of this remarkable children's book series, explicitly addressing nonbinary identities, in memory of Prince?! It's here!

Review to come December 27th to blog/Goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I loved Prince's songs and while I did know several things about him, I was still very eager to try out this book. I have read several other books in the series (Dolly Parton, Maria Montessori, Vivienne Westwood, Coco Chanel (read this one in Dutch)) and they are all just so much fun to read.

This one tells us all about Prince, about his family, about what his first song was, and how he went on to become one of the biggest stars. I had tons of fun reading this book as I learned several new fun facts about him. I always love the writing style of the books, they are really engaging and make learning about someone fun!

Like all other books in this series (Little People Big Dreams) at the end of the book we get a timeline and some photographs of the person the book was about. Here we get some additional information about the person, in this case Prince. While a lot of it is condensed into the story, here we get the not-so-condensed-but-still-shortened information.

The art, on the one hand I like it. It is so vibrant and fun, on the other hand the people just looked a bit silly to me. Though I have to say the style did grow on me as I read on.

I would recommend this one to all who want to learn more about Prince or who are fan of him.

Some people are just born for stardom and the stage, and it seems that this was most definitely the case with Prince.
As always with this series, I usually know something about the person in the book, but I always find out something new, so what did I learn about Prince:
Prince inherited his name, Prince was his father’s stage name.
He wrote his first song at 7.
We wrote the soundtrack to Batman.
When he changed his name to Symbol – his intention was to unite the masculine and feminine side in all of us.
Today we are more conscious of gender stereotypes, it’s nice to look back on someone like Prince who has been breaking down these stereotypes since the late 1970s and never stopped.
He was a unique character, who had the courage to be himself, make his own rules and that is a character to admire.

Prince by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara is the latest addition to the popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series. This time around, the spotlight is on Prince, the fascinating and iconic musician. Accompanied by colourful and quirky illustrations, we learn the story of Prince's individual path to superstardom. Readers of all ages will be drawn to this informative tribute to one of the world's most recognizable and eclectic entertainers.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group - Frances Lincoln Children's Books for the opportunity to read this ARC.

This is such an adorable book, I can imagine reading it again and again without tiring. The illustrations are precious and the narrative sticks to facts about Prince. Real talent and generosity were key to Prince's legacy. I'm thrilled that it can now reach a younger audience to inspire. Great job putting this together.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Another lovely addition to this series.

As always, the illustrations are beautifully done, and the story itself is short and simple. I’m sure lots of children and adults alike will love this.

A fantastic overview of Prince's life which doesn't shy away from his queerness! A beautiful and unique man honoured in the right way.

I love the books in this series and always find something new in them, the focus of this book is the musician Prince!

In this book you get to read a little about his early life in the book and the influences that made him such a fantastic all round performer - this is the perfect little book to introduce Prince to younger children.

Lovely images and another great addition to the series - 5 stars from me for this one

This installment of the little people BIG DREAMS series is all about Prince, another person I knew of but nothing about, so it was nice to learn a few facts. Did you know that he inherited his father's stagename, for example?

The colours in this book are very vibrant, and fittingly, a lot of purple has been used. I guess it's the only way to go when talking about his artist.

What can I say? This one is another success that will bring much fun to little readers.

The arc was provided by the publisher.

I got this on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
I really love this book series, and especially love the diverse choices picked for it! I love the art style used here, and really feel like I learned a lot about Prince and his life story! I think it deals with his androgynous look in a good manner.

A book that is perhaps the most purple one you'll have seen – and rightly so. This short little tribute is in the series designed to inspire the idea in the young that anyone can become anyone, and that everything is possible with hard work, inspiration and a prevailing wind. So here is Prince Rogers Nelson, becoming a virtuoso musician at a young age (presenting his first album when he was still just a teenager, having played every note on it, with the help of 27 instruments), and becoming a film star and global icon as well. So no, we don't get his ignominious end, the dreary welter of songs he churned out for years before that which entertained few beyond a circle of hardcore collectors, or anything else more realistic, but I cannot pretend Prince at his prime was not a person for us all to want to aspire to. The book does rather go down a hole of wokeness, pretending he was a hermaphrodite (that symbol was not just the gender signs, you know, so it had little to do with him being non-binary (which is highly debatable)), but it succeeds in earning its place alongside the majority of this series on school shelves.