I'm going to be very honest here - this book was a bit rough.
I'll start by mentioning my problem with the title. This is very picky, but the comma doesn't make sense before "yet". It should either not be there or be replaced with an ellipsis.
Next, the illustrations. I stand by what I've been saying for a while now: No. More. AI. PICTURES!!! In this book, it was painfully obvious that the images were AI-generated, and they were awfully repetitive as well. However, I will admit that the little girl was adorable, but I would have liked her to be a real picture created by a real person.
As for the writing and ideas, there was an idea here. I love that the author decided to make a book about not letting go of one's childhood so soon. This is something that is often overlooked, and I appreciate that the author brought attention to it and believes in this so much. Although, I think that the execution fell a bit short. For one thing, I think that the author needs to pay more attention to the punctuation in this book.
The page "subtopics" were mostly there, but it was just too dang long for a kids' book. My advice is removing some of the weaker subtopics so that the message that the author is trying to get across is more effective. Lastly, I think that some of the lines were a bit clunky. It felt like this book was meant to read like a song, so it would be ideal that all of the writing flows nicely.
(Also, super quick, what was that first page all about?? Seems a bit much and too far of a stretch for a kids' book, but I do get what the author was going for.)

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Victory Editing. I'm a Head Start teacher and was hopeful this book would be a great resource to use in my classroom. However, I am not impressed. The illustrations are too animated/fake. They reminded me of a video game character. The main goal of the book is that parents are trying to get their children to grow up too fast. The author wants the parent to allow the child to be a child. I felt the language wasn't really appropriate for a children's book (twerk and slay). I think the book's message was on the right track, but was very poorly executed.

This was such a good read! Overall, the book was well written and I did really enjoy it. Thank you for this advance reading copy!