When I seen this available on NetGalley I had to request for it. I love Joanna and this looks like the perfect book for kids who have a million questions about things and a mind full of imagination. This was an easy read that I think kids could easily understand and read along with. There was diversity and a girl in a wheelchair. There was ants doing a marching parade and ducks swimming in puddles. The illustrations in this book were beautiful.

A fanciful fantasy novel that bridged modern day conventions with magic and read like a romance novel as well. The Story line was intriguing but I felt it took one very wrong turn at the end with the return of a major character referenced throughout the book. Teh time travel play introduced later in the story to allow the heroes to prevail changed time in that instance but the return of a missing character from a past time line did not disrupt the time line similarly which I felt caused a big conflict in the story. What I woud have rather seen is the character being offered the chance to come back but rejecting the play with a heroic speech about changing his fate. That would have been a better resolution to the time connundrum. Otherwise the book was fairly fluffy but a good read.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this book a lot. The pictures and the story were beautiful!

The World Needs the Wonder You See follows a group of children who discover the wonder of the world around them from magic puddles to play in on a rainy day to the extraordinary sights on a star-filled night. The illustrations are beautiful and represent a diverse group of kids. The book also has great messages for children to be curious about the world around them and share the wonder they see.

An absolutely beautiful book. The colors of the illustrations are vibrant yet calming as well. The messages of taking things slowly, looking at things from a different perspective and the fact that how you see things/the things you see are so important to share with others, are just wonderful and really important to support growing, curious minds. I especially like the fun scenes of the animals, like the ant parade, and the grasshopper playing his violin, as well as the bees gathering pollen with their baskets. The pictures are exciting and accessible. I also am a big fan of the inclusion of a child in a wheel chair, as well as the other diversity among the characters. In a book with a message like this it is extra important to include these many unique characters and this book does that well.

Very cute book with sweet illustrations encouraging children to use their imaginations and take time to see the world. I love that children of different ethnicities and physical abilities were shown in the pictures.

This is such a lovely book for young kids! The rhyming verse is sweet, but the illustrations are the true stunners. Vibrant, whimsical, and just plain darling, the illustrations make the words come to life. I highly recommend this precious book to families with little kids.

Thank you to Tommy Nelson for gifting my family an ARC to review! All opinions are our own.

Joanna, I would love to sit and chat. And just say, you are my super hero. Literally. You have the most beautiful family, career, and these childrens books you write, just absolutely melt me. My four kids, my husband, and I have read this advance copy so many times. The illustrations are just darling, the story and adventure was adorable, and the meaning just melted me with the conversations the kids and I had to follow. Everyone....go get this book! Buy it for all the special children in your life. Because it needs to be on every shelf. Every. Single. One. Thank you for this sweet book our family shared together, and had such wonderful memories with the follow up of it after. Add January 28 to your calendars and this book to your TBR. -Kelsey Vogeney @little_blue_book_hutch

The illustrations in this book are beautiful and engaging for young children. I really appreciated the diversity shown throughout the book, kid will be able to see themselves, their neighbors and their friends in the children featured in the book.

The message of wonder, adventure and being curious are things that I focus on frequently in my early childhood classroom. I love seeing the world through the eyes of a child, and all of the possibilities that await you if you just open your eyes to what could be rather than what *should* be.