Fabulous book and follow-up activity for children during Thanksgiving. Simple rhyming text and illustrations show that one can appreciate what one has, even when one does not receive the material objects one wishes for.

Eh, I didn't love this. I do not see this as gripping my students' attention, and I feel like it took the introduction of the concept of gratitude and over-complicated it. The ideas in this book - being grateful for what you have even if it isn't what you asked for - is a great lesson for kids, but this book presents as though it is an introduction to gratitude to begin with. This doesn't mesh to me. I also think that the title and the idea of the "gratitude car" was honestly pretty pointless in terms of the progression of the story. It felt like the author trying to put their own spin on a gratitude jar but they did nothing with this new idea except... that it's a toy car with storage. If you're going to add your own spin to it, then do something with it to give a reason for that new spin.

This work is translated from the original Spanish, I assume, and I think it lost something in the translation. Curiously this did not appear to be a language issue! I would have loved to have seen the original version, but all I get is the ebook version which unfortunately too often leaves something to be desired. I'm not Spanish speaker by any means, but I feel I understand enough of it that - in a children's book like this - I could probably have got more out of the original than I did out of this.

I enjoyed the sentiment in this much more than the execution. The idea behind it is that not everyone gets what they want. No surprises there! But you can at least enjoy what you did get or what you already have. The idea is that this one family created a little paper 'car' which was actually a truck. I'm not sure why the original 'camion' (Spanish for 'truck') was translated this way unless it's because it's hard to get good rhymes with 'truck', but since car (In Spanish, that is 'coche') is only used in a rhyme once (with jar) in the entire book, it seems like a better choice would be 'cab', maybe.

However, this book was designed as a paperback with cutout plans for your own truck, which you can glue or stick together, so they were really rather locked into the original scheme. Anyway the idea is that they fill the back of the truck with their own grateful notes - about something they got which may not have been ideal, but for which they were thankful. This is a great attitude to have, but is the irony that the artwork in this book is so poor that one really needs to fill out a note saying how grateful we are for the bad artwork, because it's better than none at all?

I honestly do not know how this English version was made, but the feeling I got, right or wrong, is that maybe there never was an electronic version of this and in order to create the English review version, the original had to be scanned into a computer and maybe have English text added to it? Whatever it was, the end result is completely unacceptable.

The electronic version I got was appallingly scrappy, with very grainy artwork and poor positioning of the English text. I can't commend a version like this. Like I said, I never get to see the print version, but I sincerely hope it's better than this; however, given that all I have to judge this by is the version I was allowed to download, I cannot commend it because the design and quality of it are a disaster. Children - especially the impoverished ones this is evidently aimed at - deserve a lot better than this.

This is a wonderful book! This is a new take on a great idea, that of a gratitude jar. The story, written in simple rhyme, sends a clear message to children about gratitude. It’s great to dream but we need to be thankful for what we have. I think children will love the pattern so they can make their own gratitude car!

This is a fun children's book which has a message of teaching children to appreciate what they have, and not just material items. It shows children how to make a gratitude car, which is like a gratitude jar. In the story, a little boy is taught by his sister how to be more grateful for everything in his life. The story is told in rhyme, which I loved, and the book has lovely images. The story is heartwarming and it will bring joy to every child who reads it.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I had so much fun reading this. While I don’t have much to say, this was very cute and lighthearted and something I think kids will absolutely love!

What a sweet and creative book! It would make a wonderful gift! A simple rhyme and amazing illustrations made for a story that was well written and heartwarming.

This is a lovely book to introduce the idea of gratitude to children. I read it with my friends 4 year old and was surprised at how engaged she was throughout. The characters were well written and reminded me of a few little ones I've known over the years. I enjoyed reading it with her and discussing things that she was grateful for.

This is such a sweet creative and fun book and activity! I will be picking it up as gifts! The rhymes were simple but thoughtful and the characters and illustrations were well done and heart warming.