These are important topics to explore for our born digital generations with fun emoji like illustrations.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the e-ARC of this book.

I think this book would be a great tool in the classroom to help students navigate acceptable internet behavior, and appropriate digital citizenship.

If you are looking for a great book to help kids ages 8 and up on how to be good digital citizens, I recommend Rethink the Internet: How to Make the Digital World a Lot Less Sucky by Trisha Pradhu.
Trisha has written seven different stories which are appealing and realistic. Each story is a lesson on how to use the internet wisely. Some of the lessons include topics such as, not posting a person's pictures without asking first, don’t post something online that you would not say to someone’s face, and making sure that what you are posting or sharing is true and accurate. After each story, Trisha includes an activity for you to do. For example, after a story about someone getting inaccurate information on the internet, the author asks you to find something that was shared on the internet. Then she tells them to use the tips that she gave them to see if the information is true and accurate.

Rethink the Internet would be a great book to use in school to teach about digital citizenship. The class could read the stories together and then discuss them. Afterwards, they could do the challenges.

I'm of two minds about this book as a librarian. It covers a lot of good information, but the illustrative stories sometimes are a little too cheesy for me, especially in combination with the names. (Ex. last name: "McNewKid" and "Senor Simpatico"). I know it's to make it obvious that they aren't real people, but I'm not sure how seriously I would have taken them as a kid. On the other hand, it IS intended for kids, so I might be being a little too particular. Overall, it's a good introduction to the do's and do not's of the internet, and I'll probably get it for our library's NF section.