Onion Boy, a young, energetic, and curious rebel who loves running around in people's backyards goes to a One day, while exploring he discovers a box that instantly captures his attention. Upon closer inspection, the box lights up and speaks to him. Unfortunately, what the box says to little Onion Boy makes him feel stupid, and he runs away in tears. However, with encouragement from a friend, Onion Boy gains the courage to confront the mysterious box and find out why it was mean to him. What will Onion Boy do with answer he gets?

This is an exquisite book that shows how empathy and kindness helps a bully to not be so mean and bad. After his experience of confronting him, he has more self confidence, love, and courage. Bullies have their own problems and should not be treated badly. One can learn many lessons from this book. It has colorful illustrations that perfectly illustrate the story and shows the characters and the environment. Overall, it is a must-read story.

A wonderful, warm story with a much needed message to all children.
I highly recommend this children's book.

#onionboyandthebackyardbully was reminiscent of The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors in writing style and a little in the artistry. It was a cute book bringing inanimate objects to life. It taught a good lesson about standing up for yourself even when things scare you.

I loved the premise of the Onion Boy and the Backyard Bully by Daymel Garcia which teaches some very important life lessons. The illustrations were amazing and I will be looking forward to reading some more from this author in the future.

Follow Onion Boy as he comes face to face with a giant computer who bullies him and his friends.

This was such a good book for children who may be having their own difficulties with bullies. It helps them to understand why people may act the way they do but also at the same time the importance of building your own self esteem.

This is a great book which could be used as a learning and conversational tool between yourself and your child.

Enter the backyard world and see how Onion Boy learns to deal with bullies!
The illustrations by the author are creative, imaginative, colorful, and FUN!
Well suited for reading WITH someone of any age including ESL, and great for gifting to everyone, but especially to a school, hospital, or your local public library!
I requested and received a free temporary e-book on PDF from BooksGoSocial via NetGalley. Thank you!
#FlytrapPublishing #Adventure #Empathy #Friendship #SelfEsteem #Respect

Although this is a children’s book. I do like to gift these kinds of books to my friends children. This would be one of them. The message in this book is so important and it could really help some kids feel less alone. This was heart warming and cute.
This would be a story I’d love to show the kids in my life and my future children

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to
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I enjoyed the illustrations and the message behind the story. However, I didn't find the story to be super engaging. The text layout bothered me and the idea of a computer in a dump being a bully was a bit strange for me.

This felt to me a little more like a comic book than a children’s story.
The wording didn’t flow great and didn’t feel like a book my children would enjoy.
Wouldn’t recommend.

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I liked this book overall! I only had one point of confusion, but I will start with what I liked first.

The art was beautifully done! It almost felt like video game art to me. The colors were bright and dull at perfect points in the story, and it really helped add to the mood. The illustrator(s) also made all of the characters so cute! It was truly a delight to see these amazing drawings.

The other thing I liked was the story. The idea was truly unique and different, which I greatly appreciated. It also had a clear beginning, middle, and end, making the plot easy to follow and enjoy.

The only thing I was confused about was what age group this book was intended for. The back of the book says "young readers", but a lot of the things from the book make it seem more for middle grade readers. I could see myself reading this and really enjoying it in sixth grade. The only thing that didn't match up with it being for middle schoolers was the description on the back of the book (already mentioned), and the length. It was too short to be a middle-grade graphic novel, but had language that didn't make sense for younger readers.

As a whole, though, I did genuinely enjoy reading this book, and found it cute and fun.

Love me some anthropomorphic characters.
I was intrigued by the title of the book — and right at the beginning it sets such a refreshing, non-judgemental tone towards chasing curiosity.
From there, it kept getting better: themes like bullying, being different, and the bad-mad-sad analogy of explaining emotional depth to children was lowkey genius.
The illustrations and font add to the smooth reading experience.

The ending was cute and unexpected, with a good message about self-love and standing up to bullies. My favorite line was ”Butterfly? More like buttercry!”

This was an interesting and fun read. I really liked the message that you can stand up to your bullies, but that they are also people with feelings too. I will refer to bullies and annoying people as having a severe case of BAD-MAD-SAD-BLUES. Me and my nephew enjoyed this book a lot and would totally recommend it.

This book was so good and the illustrations. Wow! Never thought this short book would actually looks so nice and well-done. One can tell that there was put some effort. Not just nice illustrations on every page and nice colours, no also rhymes. The text ryhmed! How cool is that?! I felt back like a small child reading a big book full of colours and adventurous. It was really cool. And also the ending was so unexpected but cute. This children book does not only look shiny, it even has a shiny story to tell to teach children to love themselves and to not listen to bullies. Really lovely story. Would recommend this book to others.

My daughter (age 8) was able to read this book independently. She thought that it was really cute and she liked the idea of an 'onion boy'. She felt that it was also able to teach a good lesson. She enjoyed the beautiful illustrations.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this book for free in exchange for my review! All opinions are my own.

I am not sure why but somehow this story reminded me of the story "Chicken Little" which was popular when I was a child. Overall, I thought this was a fun book that was silly, yet it also teaches children important life lessons about kindness and not being a bully. I really enjoyed this story!'

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This is such a cute children’s book. My nephew will absolutely adore this story, the illustrations really made it come to life.

What a great story with gorgeous artwork that kept my child captivated and fabulous life lessons! Thank you so much for the eARC.

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for the eARC! The adventures of a backyard onion haha. Very creative! I do like how the onion comes face to face with a bully. I could see more adventures of this little onion coming soon!

I adored this little book. What a great story that paralleled many life lessons. High recommend. Thank you Net Galley for the opportunity to read and review this book.