Sweet story and nice illustrations. Overall a very limited story though so great for a short story time or bedtime but it left me with wanting more.

Trampoline Boy is a lovely picture book about friendship, acceptance and perspective. Trampoline Boy spends all of his time jumping up and down on his trampoline. The other children think he’s weird. Peaches stops one day and watches Trampoline Boy bouncing up and down. Each day she watches Trampoline Boy until one day when she whispers,

“Trampoline Boy, I wish I could see what you see up there in that blue, blue sky.”

Trampoline Boy stops bouncing for the first time. Taking Peaches by the hand, Trampoline Boy allows her to join him and together they bounce. Peaches finds out what the world looks like from up high and together they see what all of the people on the ground are missing out on.

The illustrations are colourful and interesting. I loved that Trampoline Boy doesn’t allow the kids who think he’s weird stop him from being himself and doing what he enjoys. I loves Peaches’ interest in what Trampoline Boy is doing and how she quietly observes him before asking to see what he sees.

This book works as both a story about a boy who loves bouncing on his trampoline and as a deeper story about the value of friendship, accepting and seeking to understand other peoples differences, and how seeing things from a different perspective can show you points of view that you’ve never imagined seeing.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada for the opportunity to read this book.

I don't think that anyone will be particularly surprised by the direction this book takes, given the situation with which we are presented. Cute, but not particularly unique.

Trampoline Boy is a picturebook written by Nan Forler and illustrated by Marion Arbona. It is currently scheduled for release on March 6 2018. In this story readers see the world through the eyes of a character we only know as Trampoline Boy. His favorite thing to do is jump up and down, up and down on his trampoline. Kids walk by and tease him, but he remains steadfast and calm. One day, a quietly exuberant girl, Peaches, is fascinated by his jumping. Trampoline Boy wordlessly invites her to jump with him, and by spending this time with him, Peaches and readers get to see how important and valuable different perspectives are.

Trampoline Boy is a sweet and visually lovely, picturebook. The images are stylized, and brightly colored. The main character is a boy fully engaged in his favorite activity and ignoring those that mock him for being different. Peaches watches him, fascinated by his jumping, and how much he loves it. She wants to see, to understand, and he is willing to share. I love the story, because it is about doing what you love. However, it is also about not just being willing to explore someone else's perspective, but being excited about it. It is also about being willing to share that view. Reaching out a hand to those others might exclude or mock, and taking the time to know and understand is so important and something we all need to take the time to do. What a sweet and inspiring story, that is also a lovely read both visually in in the lyric text.

Trampoline Boy by Nan Forler
Illustrated By: Marion Arbona
Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada , Tundra Books
ISBN: 9781770498303
Sale Date March 6, 2018

Thanks to NetGalley for the ebook ARC of Trampoline Boy written by Nan Forler and illustrated by Marion Arbona.

Trampoline Boy is always jumping and we are invited in to understand how he sees the world. He loves jumping up and down, its his favourite thing in the world.
Kids walk by and tease him but, one day a quiet girl , Peaches is thrilled by his jumping. And together they jump. Peaches and readers get to see how important and valuable different perspectives are.
A lyrical picture book about the joy of jumping — and a springboard for discussion about unique perspectives

I give this book a rating of 4 stars. I read this to my youngest daughter who is 4 and she really enjoyed the story. The illustrations are bright and colourful. I would recommend reading this book.

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Cute little book about doing what you like to do and seeing things a tad bent! I liked this story! It encourages being an individual and doing what you like as it does no harm to others!

This could be a fun time at Story Time. I could see the movement every time we singsonged Boing…. This is a simple story of a boy who loves to bounce on a trampoline. From his bounce he can see things no one else can, until the day, a girl asks to see what he sees. This is a fun book, I enjoyed reading it, and I will enjoy sharing it.

Images are bright and colourful. Trampoline boy is always jumping. When Peaches wants to join him, she gets to see his perspective on the joy and view he gets from jumping.

Trampoline Boy is a lovely, simple book about a young boy who loves to jump on his trampoline. It's all we see him do in fact. The neighborhood children don't understand him and simply watch and talk about him as he jumps. Everything changes though one day, when another child tells Trampoline Boy that she wants to see what he sees. She wants to understand him and he lets her in. As they jump together she gets to see what he sees. The illustrations are really wonderful. I especially love images of the Boy up in the air. The artist does an amazing job of capturing the feeling you get just as you've reached your maximum height and begin to descend.
I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a beautifully illustrated, strange little picture book about points of view, and sharing points of view. The boy, the trampoline boy, just wants to jump up into the sky, away from the all the haters that want to hate, until Peaches joins him, in his jumps.

Nice book, but hopefully kids know they aren't going to jump quite that high.

But good to show there are other ways to look at things.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

This is a sweet children's title about a young boy who jumps on his trampoline from day to night. He jumps and jumps even though others find him different and question his jumping. He stays true to his love of bouncing and is one day joined by Peaches, who finally wants to see what Trampoline Boy sees while jumping so high.

The illustrations are fun, bright and engaging. It's nice to see a story use a simple concept like jumping to focus on bigger things like friendship and acceptance.

A pleasant picture book, that makes a good virtue of its tall and thin format. Trampoline Boy is the only kid in his neighbourhood to appreciate the heights he can achieve, and what he can see, from trampolining in his back garden all day, until someone else gets curious about the benefit, and asks to join in. And so literature for the very young has another outsider finally accepted, whether he wanted acceptance or a friend or not. I wish the makers had made the obvious joke about him bouncing ("Boing!") up to where the planes are flying past - surely it should then become "Boeing!". And I think the newcomer is the winner, as opposed to the lad perfectly happy on his own who gets company thrust upon him, but beyond that the simple moral pleasure of the book is there for all to see, and the design, in varying between plainly worded page accompanying a simple, uniform layout, and wide expanses of fantastical sky, is very pleasant.

This book seems like it might be a bit large for the library, so I am a bit on the fence. BUT the oversize books are popular, so I am leaning towards thinking it would be a nice addition.
It is a bit psychedelic, very colorful, a little scary, with slightly odd looking children. I don't know that I would buy it as a gift book, unless the child likes jumping on the trampoline.

All it takes is one person, one question and you may be able to see the world a little differently. Wow. This book was phenomenal. I'm sad I will be waiting until March to get it! The story of Peaches and Trampoline Boy is one that is often overlooked and not told. The story of two children not quite sure how to interact with their peers, but so desperately wanting to. The illustrations told the story as well as the words did. This book is one of those books you will want to share with your classrooms and have discussions about kindness, friendship and seeing the world through someone else's eyes. Beautiful, just beautiful.

This is a lovely children's picture book that teaches about different perspectives and to look at how others see the world. The images are nice and bright and the story is easy to follow I did expect a slightly stronger ending but its still good - 4 stars