Member Reviews
I really enjoyed this book. It was different than anything else I've read recently. I couldn't put it down! I will keep an eye out for this author's future work!
I love the message this book is trying to tell the children, which is not letting your illness hinder you in doing life. The pages are very colorful and engaging and will definitely keep the attention span of children.
Hmmm… Surely if you wanted to convey how a kid can live perfectly well and have a most adventurous life, you'd feature a story where the kid lives perfectly well and has a most adventurous life? This is the opposite – a fantasy where a kid living perfectly well and having a decent kind of life is the author, but not the subject. As a result what we get is this, a silly fantasy where you can tell from the first page to the last the kid is asleep and just dreaming of all his superheroic activity. Yes, between that and the preamble you can see tips and advice on what to think of and prioritise when asthmatic, but to say this is positive, affirmative and encouraging for asthmatic readers when it's all blatant make-believe, makes much less sense. I'd rather see what the asthmatic children have done that makes us sit up, take note and admire them. There's no character like that in these pages. There's a semblance of one with a credit for having written these pages, but that's a different matter entirely. I'd give one and a half stars, but it's for charity.
The Mayo Clinic has found a cute way to inform young readers experiencing asthma symptoms. I wish the illustrations were more appealing, but the boy and his cat were fun characters. I especially liked when the cat says “Me-yum” when given a treat. The adventurous text can keep the interest of young readers needing to understand how to take good care of themselves.