This is such a cute, fun, colourful read for those who love mermaids!

The illustrations are outstanding and they need all eyes on them once you open this book!

The writing is fun and it’s like celebrating a little party reading it.

Go for it!

Thank you, SOURCEBOOKS Kids, for the advance reading copy.

Afterwork by Joel Malick and Alex Lippert is a resource for those who are planning for and entering retirement. In this book, the authors discuss the pros and cons of life after retirement and call out the ways our own career conditioning fails us. The authors speak to the ways we are conditioned to define our success as a performance return and by the amount of money we have in our savings. However, retirement and living a meaningful life after our career chapter ends is about so much more than the financial aspect.

The authors call life after retirement "the afterwork world" and remind readers that our inherent value is in being a human being and not just a laborer. By leaning in to the things we can control in the afterwork world (relationships, healthy living, managing adversity, deciding where to live, etc) we are able to become more intentional about our future and live life with more of an emphasis on the things we enjoy and value.

My favorite aspect of the book was the focus on the Ten Key Disciplines where readers are reminded of leaders including Nelson Mandela who was 75 when he became South Africa's first democratically elected president and Tolkien who was 62 when The Fellowship of the Ring was published.

This is a great book recommendation for non-fiction readers wanting to consider real life questions about the life span and what they hope to get out of it.

Thank you to the author and publisher for the e-arc copy!