I got this book as an ARC.

This book was a short story about the gobbler, two brothers, and learning kindness. Great lesson for kids.

I thought that it was a cute story and my children enjoyed listening to it. They very much loved the pictures and the rhyming. It kept their attention through the whole book. My kids even made connections to similarities between the story and their lives which was great. I enjoy that they were able to learn something out of this story.

I do wish the book had been a little longer. There were a couple jumps made where I thought I had skipped a page. Having some of those gaps filled in to bridge the story a little more would have been nice. Still a well written and fun story though.

Overall I felt like it was worth a read and will be reading it again during our regular story nights.

I have rated this book 4 stars.

I can’t wait to share this book with my mom who is an elementary school librarian. This is the perfect educational book to help children understand the spread of negative feelings and how easy it is to get lost in our anger.

The illustrations were very cute. I enjoyed them a lot. The wording was wonderful. The first page made me laugh. The moral was a great lesson for children so long as they are also taught about stranger danger. Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend for parents with very young children or children who need to learn about kindness. I believe this book is written in such a way that it can also help teach literacy.

“Remember, even on the smoothest of roads, potholes happen. Let each pothole be a stroke of inspiration on the canvas of your life. But whatever you do, don’t feed the Gobbled!”

THE GOBBLER is a cute book, with a nice message. If you feed malice and strife, it grows and grows. Love defeats all, etc. A nice book, with a nice message. I got a real kick out of seeing all the different little gobblers - that was my favorite part!!

A big criticism I have is the lack of rhythm in the author’s poetry. Not all the paragraphs have the same rhythm or rhyme, which was really distracting and made the book feel clunky.

Overall though, this was a good book.

I thought this was a fun, silly story - something a child is really going to love reading, but with a really good message at heart. It's definitely something I'll see if I can recommend to my library purchasers, as I do think it would be a good book to have available. It teaches a good lesson about not fighting too much with your siblings, and I think that it'll be a very helpful book to have to hand, as this definitely is an issue that comes up a lot, and this will be a good, subtle way to teach it to them without them realising.

This was a good time with goofy illustrations and a positive message.

It’s a fun and silly way to teach children how important kindness is and being in control of their emotions.

My daughter absolutely loved this book! She is all about “spooky stuff” and determined this was “so spooky and fun”!! The artwork is great!