Member Reviews
The Yasmin books are always a big hit at my library. They are wonderful transitional chapter books for new early chapter readers. The colorful images and the amount of white space around the text is crucial for growing readers. It helps them keep engages with not only the text but the story overall. I also love the fact that it is an Own Voices author, it’s important that we ensure kids can see themselves in the story and they are being written by someone of their own culture.
I loved this book. Yasmin's school is having a parade to celebrate the first 100 days, and she wants to wear something creative that also reflects her personality. I love that she asks for help, but does not take the first idea that's offered or the easiest. She truly wants something unique.
I loved to see Yasmin's family and bits of her culture represented so cheerfully and colorfully on the page.
I live in the UK so we don't have anything here to celebrate the 100th Day of School so this was a new concept for me. In the story, Yasmin and her friends are celebrating reaching their 100 days of learning at school and they are looking for something related to 100 to wear for the day when they celebrate.
The book has a nice touch where Yasmin speaks to her grandmother (Nani) about the dilemma on what to wear and they come up with something unique and different to her class mates.
The illustrations in the book were really nice and bright, I liked the text wasn't obstructed by the writing and the layout was spot on. The story was a really sweet one and I wish we did something similar in the UK as it would be great to celebrate what they have learnt too as starting and attending school is a big thing!
It is 5 stars from me for this one - very highly recommended!