A sweet, touching, smart book about Whitney who forgets the joy in doing things and focuses on just winning. When she sees how this is effecting her friendships and others, with a little help from Tiny Ninja, she starts to change her ways with happy results. A great book to teach children about competitiveness and the importance of doing things "for the fun of it!" A really sweet, colorful picture book my 2nd graders will enjoy.

This was a cute read. My four year old loves the message. Sometimes not winning all the time is better when the whole team is happy! She loves the scavenger hunt inside too. Beautiful illustrations. My only concern is where the scavengers were placed. The story is about her in the soccer game but there are pictures of her feeding a duck and then she randomly asked tiny ninja if she was going to stay forever? I think it takes away from the message of “sometimes, always winning isn’t really winning” vs the end that she will have tiny ninja always. Maybe if this is going to be a series, let it be known on our “next adventure” we will conquer together.

Absolutely love the illustrations- almost as much as the messages learned! This book teaches important lessons about winning and losing, and teamwork.