“How will you connect today?”
It’s a fascinating question to pose to children living in a digital world. And this book shows them the many ways that technology can be used to help people to do just that - connect. Older generations often think of technology as being used to disconnect from the “real world” around us. Yet in so many ways, this same digital age has allowed us to connect with each other in ways we never before could have even conceived.

Sonia’s Digital World helps show readers a small number of the many advances in technology that allows us to connect. From using tablets to have live conversations, allowing us to stay in touch with friends and families continents apart - to using technology to help others in her community.

I appreciate that this book puts a focus on the positive ways in which our digital abilities can be used to connect us. Illustrations show diverse communities, multi-generational families, and differently-abled students working in collaboration together. The five questions offered at the end of the book gives readers a chance to reflect on how they use technology and provides an excellent opportunity for classroom use in digital literacy lessons.

+I received a free advanced readers copy and I am leaving this review voluntarily.+

This book is about all the ways that children can use technology for a better world. There’s lots of arguments going around now about when is one too young to be so ingrained in digital. This book completely ignores that and it’s just all the positive things But as an adult, it would have been nice to seeing in there “Sometimes you need to put the technology down”. Either way this book does work and it’s lovely, but I have a feeling it does not have an infinite lifespan.

Sonia's Digital World highlights the positive impacts of the extent of current technology. It provided a myriad of examples from connection to accessibility to quell curiosity and the thirst for knowledge, and followed it all with a comprehensive list of questions that allow readers to critically analyze the messages of the book and contribute their anecdotal examples of technological implications in their lives. This book is a great tool to help children (and all readers) think about the ways we can positively integrate technology into our lives to cultivate an inclusive, collectivist society and welcomes children into the conversation about the extents of technology and where we can take it.

Sonia's Digital World is a great overview of how technology can be utilized in our world each and every day without it taking over. The story starts with Sonia asking her mom to record her dance so she can share it with her friends. It then has a diverse cast of characters showing all the different ways we can use technology to connect, learn, communicate, and share each and every day. It would make a good read aloud as an introductory lesson in any elementary school and is a great starting point for a discussion on using technology in meaningful ways.

Sonia's Digital World was a nice read for my son (age 5) but it was a little more experienced than he. The grade levels that it is geared towards makes sense, as K-2 probably would have understood more than my pre-K toddler with no school experience yet.

The story line was good. We loved the illustrations. We will recommend this book to his classmates this coming year!

Thank you for allowing us an early copy, in exchange for an honest review.

This book was so adorable, I loved everything about it, the illustrations were so well done, they suited the book perfectly, the story was amazing as well, even thought is very short I could really connect with the characters and feel theirs struggles.
I’m sure the kids are going to be just as enthralled with this amazing book as I was.
I will definitely recommend!

Thank you netgalley and the publisher for this early copy

You can be a digital explorer and communicate with people anywhere in the world to teach, learn, share, and keep in touch with family and friends!
The illustrations by Clara Reschke are delightful, fun, imaginative, and colorful.
Well suited for reading WITH someone of any age including ESL, and great for gifting to anyone, but especially to a school or teacher or your public library!
I requested and received a free temporary e-book on Adobe Digital Editions from Capstone/Picture Window Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

I read this with my daughter (5), and while we thought the illustrations were beautiful, the writing seemed very stilted. She usually is pretty good about books, but we just couldn't get into this one. I love the premise, but maybe just not a good fit for my daughter.

This book is great for SEL lessons surrounding how to use technology positively. We see it in the lessons specifically mentioned in the text of the book but also the implicit ones like where the Deaf/HOH child is using technology for subtitles to understand the lesson on bald eagles.

So much of our conversations around the internet and social media (especially after the pandemic) have had severe negative bias to them. While some of this is good and useful, especially in teaching kids about online activity, it is only painting the internet and social media in the taboo. By pairing this book around what we can use to create positive online activities and practices with some of the more cautious teachings we can create more healthy relationships with our online practices and create a more empowered and digitally literate population.

I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect but i loved this book. I think this is the only technology positive book ive read. Rather than focusing on the bad in technology we talk about all the positive things we can do with it! Recommend to all parts for age 2 and up.

I thought this was a cute, lighthearted book on the use of technology. In a time where technology is so accessible to children, this book provides some great opportunities for them to learn about various ways to use technology. I also liked the fact that the text mentioned assistive technology for a child who has a cochlear implant. The only critique that I have of this text is that I wish there was some mention of the downsides that come with technology. I am a huge proponent of using technology, but I notice when it goes unregulated for children, it can have a negative impact. I would have liked some brief mention of this.

This was such a cool read! I love the way it frames the benefits of children growing up in a digital world, and also continues to encourage ongoing positive engagement with technology. The art is beautiful and the narrative it draws paints a picture of how people of different backgrounds and abilities use digital communication and tools to enrich their lives, their learning, and their relationships.

This is a fun, age appropriate book that gives a modern explanation of different types of communication. In todays modern technological world, there are many ways that technology can connect us together, and this book is a fun way to explore some.

Sonia's Digital World places growing up in a hyper-technological age, in a positive light. Technology may be overwhelming for some, but this children's book celebrates the myriad benefits of connection that the Digital World nurtures. From heartfelt interactions with grandparents, to educational opportunities, to recording and photographing memories, this book is unique in celebrating the many fun, safe, and adventurous ways technology may be used by kids today. Particularly noteworthy is the story's interaction with nature: whereas technology has been seen as being superimposed over nature, Miller's book celebrates both without lessening one or the other. Technology may encourage kids to get out in nature and discover the bugs, animals, and plants around them with easy access to facts and resources on them. Overall, Sonia's Digital World is a good primer on the technological world for children, complete with many ideas for them to go out and do themselves.

What a beautiful little book for children to explain the digital world!
I know many parents and educators still want to pretend like there is only one “real” world out there, but I think it is absolutely time to forget this mindset and face the reality that the digital world is here to stay, and the children will grow up and have the digital world to live in, not just the one “regular” world everyone was used to before.
This book might be the perfect resource for those who are still on the fence themselves – this book gives the perfect opportunity to talk about both worlds with the younger children even if you yourself are in some way unsure of what to say about it. It shows how useful it can be and what benefits it brings into our lives.
If you look at the digital world through the perspective this book offers (“How will you connect today?”), it actually makes the digital world to be our friend and ally, not an enemy some people want to think of it.

Sonia's Digital World was a delightful conversation starter for little ones about how we digitally access and explore our world. I love that the end of the book had recommendations about responsible technology use. We live away from most of our family and rely on video chat communication so my 4 year old loved seeing this relationship represented in a positive way.. because it can feel rather lonely. Great illustrations, would recommend!

Thank you to Capstone, Picture Window Books and NetGalley for this ARC

This book is a wonderful introduction and resource for discussing technology with children. At the end of the book there are recommendations for positive engagement with technology and information about how to be a responsible digital explorer.

Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for an advanced digital copy in exchange for an honest review!

My daughter an I absolutely loved this book! It taught all the healthy ways to use technology. We live in a world where people tell kids that all technology is bad. It’s been tough to teach my daughter that technology can be used for good things too! This book helped so much with that.

The illustrations were colorful and eye-catching. I love the display of minority people as well, considering my daughter is also minority. She always enjoys seeing her skin color represented as well.

I loved the end notes about how technology can be used in healthy ways. I believe this whole book benefitted my daughter as well as myself!

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for the copy of this book. We highly enjoyed it!

This was a sweet book about digital communication for children. I didn’t love it. It was fine. I feel like there a lot of books somewhat similar vibes with this one, all of which I’ve looked at at the library but never checked out or purchased. I need more wit and heart, I guess. My son is four and didn’t know what it was about.

This was such a sweet book that creates space for a discussion of how we can use technology. I loved that it showed a variety of different uses beyond just playing games. The only thing that I wish it had included was some language around how to use online tools safely. That being said, I could definitely see myself getting this book for my younger son as he learns about using online tools to explore the world around him.