Kobi YamadaCritiques

Independent reading level Grade 2
Independent Publisher Book Awards (Gold Children's Picture Book 2014)
Blue Hen Book Award (Nominee Young Readers 2017)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee Primary 2017)
Golden Archer Award (Nominee Primary 2017)
Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award (Honor 2014)
Charter Oak Children's Book Award (Nominee Fiction 2017)

This book is appropriate for primary readers.
This book is about a young child who has to figure out what to do with his problem.
This book could be useful when teaching about worry or problem solving.

This is a very inspirational book, for children and adults. I has beautiful illustrations.

Es geht um das Erkennen - der Umwelt und von sich selbst. Den Text hat Elise Hurst passend mit farbigen Zeichnungen illustrierst, bei denen es sich lohnt, genau hinzusehen, denn dann kann man auch hier noch einiges mehr erkennen, als das, was sich auf den ersten Blick erschließt.

Die Geschichte entwickelt sich im Dialog zwischen einem Mädchen und einer Malerin, die sich aber nicht als Malerin, sondern als mehr als Beobachterin sieht, die dann ihre Beobachtung im gemalten Bild festhält. Aber sie beobachtet nicht nur ihre Umgebung, sondern auch die Menschen und ermutigt das Mädchen, ebenfalls genau hinzusehen: "Du bist nicht wie irgendwer sonst. Genaugenommen gibt es nirgendwo eine Person wie dich."

"Je mehr du innehältst und dem Außergewöhnlichen Raum gibst, [..] desto mehr wirst du davon erkennen."

Ein außergewöhnliches Bilderbuch für alle Altersklassen.

Versuchen, geschrieben von Kobi Yamada und illustriert von Elise Hurst, ermuntert, neues zu versuchen, auch auf die Gefahr hin, zu scheitern.

Am Anfang steht die Frage "Wie macht man das?" und erst wenn es praktisch versucht, kann man wissen, ob man es kann. Die Angst vor dem Scheitern soll einen dabei nicht vom ausprobieren abhalten. Natürlich wird es dabei zu Enttäuschungen kommen - aber wenn man etwas wirklich will, wird man auch darüber hinwegkommen.

Mit den zurückhaltenden Zeichnungen von Elise Hurst zeichnet Kobi Yamada den Weg nach, den die meisten beschreiten müssen, um es in einem Bereich zur Meisterschaft zu bringen - und macht damit Mut, Fehler zu machen, zu scheitern, aber trotzdem an seinem Ziel festzuhalten.

This is my 3rd book illustrated by Elise Hurst, and I can't get enough of her beautiful art! I picked it up at the library for the art, but the story was really good too. It was a good reminder for me, as an adult, that all I need to do is starttrying to be good at something.

Achild struggles with the worry and anxiety that come with an unexpected problem.

In a wonderful balance of text and pictures, the team responsible for What Do You Do With an Idea (2014) returns with another book inspiring children to feel good about themselves. A child frets about a problem that won’t go away: “I wished it would just disappear. I tried everything I could to hide from it. I even found ways to disguise myself. But it still found me.” The spare, direct narrative is accompanied by soft gray illustrations in pencil and watercolor. The sepia-toned figure of the child is set apart from the background and surrounded by lots of white space, visually isolating the problem, which is depicted as a purple storm cloud looming overhead. Color is added bit by bit as the storm cloud grows and its color becomes more saturated. With a backpack and umbrella, the child tries to escape the problem while the storm swirls, awash with compass points scattered across the pages. The pages brighten into splashes of yellow as the child decides to tackle the problem head-on and finds that it holds promise for unlooked-for opportunity.

A straightforward, effective approach to helping children cope with one of life’s commonplace yet emotionally fraught situations, this belongs on the shelf alongside Molly Bang’s Sophie books. (Picture book. 4-7)

-Kirkus Review

When this book arrived in the mail, I was disappointed to see how incredibly thin it is -- a mere 80 pages. Flipping through it, I was disappointed again to discover that most of the pages have only a sentence or two written on them. It's as though the gimmicky typography took centre stage over the subject matter.

When I actually sat down to read it and do the exercises, I wasn't at all surprised to see that the handling of the material was... thin, at best. I was hoping for more insights, more meaty discussions on what makes a meaningful life, on goal-setting and time management, on priorities and boundaries, on all the things that so many of us struggle with that keeps us from achieving our peak potential.

Instead, I got a whole lot of fluff, a mish-mash of quotes I've read a hundred times before, and questions that are so common-sense as to be pretty useless in terms of actually setting down a solid 5-year plan. Overall, this book was incredibly disappointing, and I wish I'd flipped through it in a store before purchasing it from Amazon, because I never would have spent my hard-earned money on it.

My coworker left this book on my desk for me to read today, and it was perfect. I have felt like the whole world has been laying on my shoulders this week, and this book brightened my day. I will definitely buy this book for my kids one day.

You are the only you there ever has been or ever will be. You are unique in all the universe. Just the odds of you being here at this exact place and this exact time are so great and so rare that it will never happen again. Written by New York Times best-selling author Kobi Yamada, this is a story for everything you will do and everything you can be. It’s a story about all the possibilities ahead of you. It’s for who you are right now and it’s for all the magical, unbounded potential you hold inside.

In this book it talks about the difficulties having a problem might be. We see that the schachter is afraid to solve the problem he has. In the end he faces his issue and figure out that it wasn't so bad to face is problem.

My wonderful coworker left this on my desk for me to read on a day when I really needed to hear the message. Very sweet and touching.

What do you do with a chance?

I'd say you go ahead and grab it, but sometimes that's easier said than done. Who among of us at any stage in our lives doesn't need this lovely little reminder to be brave and take chances.

Once again Kobi Yamada and Mae Besom have brought us a beautifully illustrated story of bravery and hope.

Does this PROBLEM sound familiar?
These magical illustrations and the oh so familiar tale, touch my heart.

This book helps children with the ideas they have and discusses the emotions that come with them.
Age: 3-5
Source: Pierce County Library

Maybe is a quiet book about discovering the endless potential that lies in all of us. This sweet picture book comments on the many possibilities waiting for us, and all the ways we might fulfill our purpose. The illustrations are clean and simple, yet beautiful.

This author/illustrator combo has done it again. As with "Finding Muchness", this book seeks to get you in touch with living your best life. Whether it's taking a moment to marvel at the world around you or pausing to remind you to be kind to yourself, this book takes you on a delightful journey of self-discovery.

Again, the illustrations absolutely bring the text to life.½

This is a really cute little book that shares a few much-needed truths. In its simple way, this book inspires you to get out there and live your best life now.

This is a great volume to read when you are in need of a quick pick-me-up. The illustrations are adorable and add so much to the text.½

An inspiring story about who you are right now and who you may become and the endless potential in all of us.

Kobi Yamada does a good job of writing simple stories with important messages for children.

A cute story about trying especially when we think we can't do something. Beautiful illustrations and a simple story with a solid message.

Everyone at some time in their life has been told that an idea they’ve had is going nowhere and to let it go, only to see it realised by someone else further down the road. This children’s book, aimed at the 4-8 year old age group, takes that and runs with it in a way that a reader of any age can grasp and take onboard.

As we all know though ideas do not go on to become great things on their own, and this book offers a way for parents to talk to their children about how they can nurture and grow their ideas, just like the boy in the book. This book opens the door for what could be a great discussion between those involved with it, the parent and child or just two like minded adult readers, and what is there not to like about a conversation that has been set into motion by a book. . My reason for the 4 thumbs review is that I just wanted more; I wanted to see what the idea grew into and how it really does take just one person to start making a change.

The Authors idea to give life to an idea was genius and the use of an egg as the idea even more so. Combine this with simple but beautiful prose and delicate illustrations and you have a perfect example of what you can do with an idea. It has been a while since I read and reviewed a children’s book, and I am so glad that I picked this one up to read. This is a book that is all about creativity, giving to wings to soar and caring for it in a world where no one else seems to care. Another part of the book I really like was the way in which the only colour in the book, at the beginning, was the egg. As the idea was cared for and grew, this colour started radiating to other parts of the world, until it finally exploded at the end, so even if the words may be difficult for some children to understand, the way in which they were translated in the illustrations would help immensely.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever had an idea and has been told it’s just a ‘dream’


Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.com/2015/05/04/review-what-do-you-do-with-an-idea-kobi-ya...






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Beautiful book. So inspiring. Not just for children.