Come Be Wild With Me

Cute little book! Perfect for families and kids! I loved the message and the illustrations.

Sweet and gentle tale with perfectly accompanying illustrations. This book is wonderful for a one to one reading or an entire group at story time. The book gives a lot of opportunities to stop and discuss as the story moves.

Beautiful book encouraging families to disconnect from the technical world and reconnect with each other and with nature. I enjoyed the simple adventures and the transformation the characters underwent during their getaway. Thank you for the copy.

As a parent and librarian I am always looking for ways to get the kids away from devices and connect with a story or real life adventure. This book does both. This book starts with a parent and a child leaving technology behind for an unknown adventure amongst the trees.

I have heard a lot of discussion about the stereotypical, offensive illustrations in this book depicting Native American in the head dress as out-dated. Though, I disagree. The illustrations are beautiful and it does not state Native Americans being the characters portrayed. It says "we can trade our clothes for leaves," the accompanying picture is of two non-gender specific people wearing feathers and leaves on their head and around their waist. If a family is adventuring in nature, it seems appropriate attire to use found things like leaves and feathers for decoration for a fun, fashionable experience.

So I love this book, but at the same time find it highly annoying. First off the illustrations are AMAZING. The black and white smoky look with just bursts of brightness set the story on a right path. Our story is to put away your devices, get out of the house and go outside and play. Explore nature and use your imagination. Great story. Why I get annoyed is in the beginning the story rhymes, and rhymes well, but it does not keep it or canter throughout the book. If it is supposed to rhyme all the way through it misses the mark, and if it’s not then the first part needs to be broken up to get rid of the sing song canter. All in all, a great book for any collection.

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Beautiful illustrations and simple but rich writing. I love the way this book encourages spending time outdoors and pushes back at the prevalence of technology. I was a little uncomfortable with the very idealistic depiction of spending all day and all night outside, eating berries and drinking water, but I also remember thinking that way as a kid, so maybe it's ok.

Beautifully done!!
What else is there to say! A wonderful addition to any library. Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read for a fair review.

Come Be Wild With Me is a cute story book for children. It will appeal to younger readers and encourage them to go outside and play in nature, which is always a good thing.

The book contains a short, lyrical story about a mother and son who venture out into the forest to learn about the wild. They immerse themselves in the nature experience and have fantastic adventures exploring and being wild. The message is a positive one and shows kids that nature is a great place to be and that you can have imaginative adventures without being plugged into a device with a screen. They climb trees, throw stones into a lake, dress in leaves and eat berries. A full sensory experience of nature.

The story is accompanied by beautiful watercolor paintings depicting the storyline. The paintings are fanciful and colorful. The animals are cute and not scary for young readers. The characters are shown with smiling faces so that young readers will understand that nature is not a scary place; it’s a place that makes people happy.

The positive message of this book seems well-suited to readers of any age, and indeed adults will enjoy the poetic story and the accompanying paintings. The story is told in words that younger readers can sound out and spell, so it’s appropriate for the age group. Parents can read it to children who are too young to read on their own yet. It’s one of those books that a child might ask for as a bedtime story each night and memorize so that they can read along with the parent.

I enjoyed the story and its message about nature. I recommend this to anyone who wants to introduce their kids to nature and give them a storybook that will almost certainly become popular a favorite.

I would like to thank the author, publisher, and NetGalley for allowing me to see an advance reader copy in exchange for my honest review.

In this case the wildness of the title is not in how you act, but where you go. “You must unplug to reconnect” is the first thing you read, while the last is, “When we’re good and ready, we’ll return to the world—happier boys and girls.” In between is all the things that can be done when you go for a walk in the woods.
The artwork is black and white with the sun and leaves in color. Looks quite stark.
3.5 pushed up to 4/5

This is a sweet short picture book about leaving technology and modern living behind for a day and going out in nature and enjoying being in the wild.