My Little Green Umbrella is such a heartwarming and cozy read for children, but also nostalgic for adults too!

This book took me back to my childhood with the whimsical illustrations and of how things can be shared, even generations later.

I just loved the feelings I got while reading it.
It reminded me of the book Love You Forever.

Reading this with my daughter made me tear up!

I hope she knows that I’m grateful to share things from my childhood with her.

Things as simple as an umbrella.

'My Little Green Umbrella' by Sandy Little with illustrations by Tom Lintern is a story about a young girl that finds a magical umbrella.

A young girl finds a green umbrella in a thrift store. The first time she uses it in the rain, something unusual happens. As she gets older, she forgets about the umbrella until it is found by a new generation and the cycle begins again.

The story mirrors the wonder of childhood that we lose as we grow. It also shows how it can be recaptured. The illustrations are beautiful.

SYNOPSIS
A lonely young girl wandering through a thrift shop discovers a green umbrella. She decides to take it home, and with her imagination they go on many adventures together. As the girl grows older, she slowly outgrows the umbrella and puts it away.

One day, a young boy finds a little green umbrella in the back of an old closet. Using his imagination, the boy and the umbrella embark on fun and adventures for many years.

Many years down the road, an old woman finds a little green umbrella in the closet and decides to go for a walk. She meets a young man, and they walk on together, each remembering their own childhood adventures with the umbrella.

My Little Green Umbrella is about an umbrella that gets passed on and memories it has. A young girl finds a green umbrella in a thrift shop, and it becomes a constant companion. The little girl and her imagination have adventures such as being out at sea or a princess floating down from a tree. The umbrella is put away for years until the little girl's little boy finds it and it becomes a pirate sword that protected him and his treehouse. Again, it got put away until one day when it rained, the boy, now grown and his mother used to to keep them dry from the rain. This is such a sweet story about imagination, passing things on to others, sharing story and spending time together. The illustrations were whimsical and sweet. I enjoyed this story very much. My grandkids liked it, especially the end with the boy and his mother walking in the rain with the umbrella.

The theme of this story is imagination and how children can take the simplest of objects and create whole worlds of their own to explore in their minds. The first child, a little girl, gets a green umbrella at a thrift shop. As she plays with the umbrella magical things happen, but as she grows older she abandons the umbrella, putting it away in a cluttered closet to be forgotten. One day a young boy finds the umbrella in the closet, and as he plays with it the magic is there for him as well, until he also grows too old to play and puts it away back in the closet.

The umbrella is forgotten until one day the first young girl, now old, takes the umbrella out and goes for a walk, remembering all the adventures she had with the umbrella when she was young. She is joined on her walk by her son, who is the young boy in the story, now an adult as well.. Even though the umbrella does not hold the same magic it did when they were young, they both enjoy walking together, the umbrella just an umbrella, and remembering the past magic they experienced.

The ink and color wash illustrations in this book are sweet and subtle, a perfect match to the tone of the story. Although the story was fine, it was missing that magical element for me that would put it over the top. I think the cover image could have been more compelling, there were several images in the book that were more interesting and spoke to the magic of the imagination that I would have rather seen on the cover.

I would like to thank the publisher for providing an electronic ARC through NetGalley.

Thank you so much to outskirts press and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.

What a beautiful story of a child’s imagination and the magic one item can hold when you are young. A young girl finds the green umbrella and it becomes her best friend as it can take her places only her mind can create, then later it’s found by a young boy who too befriends it and sets off to his imagination with help of the green umbrella.

What a seriously sweet story of childhood and the pure magic that can be had with an item as simple as an umbrella. A connection and friendship with something so simple can last a lifetime and be passed down to others too and I love how it was captured so perfectly within this story.

The illustrations were also so beautiful helped add too and capture the pure magic and imagination the children were having. It’s a really sweet story and I loved that it is done in a natural way in which a child really would be and play with an item like an umbrella. So sweet.

Thanks to Kind World Publishing and NetGalley for the advanced copy!

This story felt familiar, like perhaps it was read to me when I was a child. The art added to the feeling of nostalgia. It was a simple story about the power of the imagination, and how an everyday object, like a little green umbrella, could turn into a sword or a boat. There were moments in the story where some lines felt derivative, but they were easily overlooked in the bigger picture.

The ending is what got me, and what turned this from a 3 to a 3.5 star read. The ending, with the boy grown up and going on a walk with his mother - the original owner. Simple objects were seen as magical when they were children, and they still are. Magic is in the eye of the beholder, and as we grow our perspective changes. The little green umbrella was no longer a sword or a boat, but it was still very useful. It could still be used to make the two happy.

It’s a sweet story that will feel familiar to older and younger readers alike, and the illustrations are absolutely lovely. This is a solid book, through and through!

I received a copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

My Little Green Umbrella is such a heartwarming, whimsical, cozy read for children about a little girl who gets an umbrella and goes on many magical, imaginative adventures with it until she grows up and puts it away. A young boy then finds the umbrella and has many magical adventures too. But yet again the umbrella gets put away as the boy grows older. One day the girl, who's now an old lady, finds the umbrella again and reminisces on her adventures with her son (the boy).
This book transported me back to my childhood with the beautiful, whimsical illustrations and delightful tale!

Thank you to Outskirts Press and NetGalley for providing an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was heartwarming, and it reminded me a lot of The Giving Tree, except this time, it's a little green umbrella.

The illustrations are different than what I usually see these days but I liked it. It somehow gives that nostalgic feel of reading the books I had when I was a kid that had the same style of illustrations.

The ending especially made me smile. I would recommend this to both children and adults. I'm glad I read it especially in these times.

The soft shades of green on the cover of this sweet story by Sandy Little are the perfect introduction to the magic waiting inside. A little girl is out with her mother to buy rain boots when she happens upon a green umbrella (and her kind mother buys it for her). So begins the magic of an imagination unleashed in the company of that umbrella.

The illustrations by Tom Lintern were created in soft pastels and are bursting with detail waiting to be explored by young readers. I loved that the narrative was kept separate from the pictures so that nothing distracts from the beauty of each picture.

I loved the idea that the simplest of objects--in this case, an umbrella--can be the gateway to exciting destinations. And as the little girl outgrows its use, another child discovers its charms and is once again off on new adventures. I love that the story includes both a young girl and a young boy so that it will appeal to all children.

I loved how the relationship between the two children isn't fully explained until the end when the forgotten umbrella is put to use again. Such a tender story about the sheltering influence of love and the importance of a childhood full of imagination and adventure! I highly recommend this book to any parent or grandparent (and highly suggest that you gift this book with an accompanying umbrella!).

Disclaimer: I received a free digital copy of My Little Green Umbrella from NetGalley for the purpose of review. No other compensation was received and the opinions expressed are my own.

I enjoyed this story. It is about imagination and how things change as we grow up. A great addition to any classroom library.

My Little Green Umbrella is beautifully illustrated. The story focus on the relationship of a child with an object that sparks her imagination and passes it down to her son starting a new cycle. I love the ending bringing both lives together. Makes me think of all the precious things from my childhood that at my age I still carry with me.

Beautifully illustrated and written story about a girl, a boy and a green umbrella. I like how the author gave the umbrella a personality. It made the girl and boy happy, it provided them imagination and was there for them their whole lives. It was an easy read with a happy ending. A child could even tell their own story with the pictures that are provided. Just a beautiful book!

My Little Green Umbrella is derivative — but in the best way. Sandy Little’s sing-song prose will put readers in mind of Shel Silverstein or fairy tales, but that’s not the best part of this picture book. Tom Lintern’s illustrations! So reminiscent of Ernest Shepherd’s illustrations in Winnie the Pooh! I would read the telephone directory if only Lintern would provide the companion drawings!

As with fairy tales, it’s obvious from the start what My Little Green Umbrella’s message is: a paean to the power of imagination. But, as with fairy tales, you won’t mind because it’s amazingly done.

In the interest of full disclosure, I received this book from NetGalley and Outskirts Press in exchange for an honest review.

My little green umbrella is a short, heartwarming story, and full of imaginations :) as older reader I enjoy this book so much

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. An excellent book about imagination and what you can do with your umbrella.

This is a fine story about an umbrella that makes its way through the lives of two different people. The art work is charming and the story shows changes over time.

A really sweet story about a green umbrella and a young girls imagination that it takes her on adventures. As the girl grows the umbrella is put in to the closet until a young boy finds it and he takes it on his own adventures. The illustrations are pretty and the ending with the mother and son using the umbrella for rain is really sweet!

With thanks to the author Sandy Little, illustrator Tom Lintern, publishers Outskirtspress, and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this ARC in exchange for my honest unbiased review.

This is a beautifully written and illustrated book, telling the story of the relationships that a young girl and subsequently a young boy, who grow up to be mother and son, have with a green umbrella. It celebrates the power of imagination in young children, and how an inanimate object such as this can mean so much to them, with each child putting incorporating the umbrella into their own young adventures in equally magical but different ways.

There is a bit of a Toy Story feel to how the author gives the umbrella the ability to feel emotions, and this angle is used beautifully to bring the story to a positive and uplifting conclusion, when the umbrella is reunited with its two previous owners and still proving useful to them, albeit in a far more grown-up and practical way.

A fun book that young readers will enjoy!

A sweet, heart-warming little tale about a girl and her beloved green umbrella that she plays with all the time. As the girl grows older, the umbrella is relegated to a closet until one day, a little boy finds it and plays with it regularly as the girl once did. As the boy grows older, the green umbrella is again relegated to a closet until one day, an old lady finds it and realizes it is the same umbrella she so loved as a little girl. Mother and son use the umbrella together, and while it is no longer their plaything, it faithfully shelters them from the rain. The beautiful illustrations are very touching and the story invokes a medley of feelings similar to classics such as Peter Pan, The Velveteen Rabbit, and The Giving Tree.