This colorful, fun book is perfect for read aloud to kids to help practice gratitude and recognize the positives in life. Illustrations are engaging (though the reflected globe bothered me a few times--I doubt kids would notice). Great potential tie-ins to lessons for science while studying the alphabet as well.

Wonderful book, great topic. Gratitude is central to a good life. And this book makes the concept of gratitude understandable to our younger set. The book takes a dictionary approach and is effectively written and illustrated and is a joy to read. I really enjoyed it. I read it right before Thanksgiving, so it fit into the season. But gratitude is necessary year round and this book will help cement the concept.

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I really loved the bright illustrations in this book and the awesome examples of gratitude. The one thing I felt could use improvement is the length of the book. Since toddlers have a short attention span this alphabet book about gratitude could stray their attention.

The Power of Gratitude by Ruth Maille is a beautiful story that teaches young children the importance of gratitude and staying positive. Orbit encourages the children in the story to identify things that they’re grateful for, no matter the circumstance. The children begin naming things from A-Z.

This story is perfect at demonstrating that there is something to be grateful for in every situation. It’s a positive story that would benefit children everywhere. Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Having a daily gratitude practise myself, I was really intrigued by this idea being in a children's book.
The illustrations were very cartoony, but they really worked with the plot.
The book followed an A-Z format that was just a little too repetitive and long-winded.
I think the book would have been better if each of the characters had picked things to be grateful for at random, rather than the formulaic A-Z structure.

It was a sweet book, but it went on a bit (for a childrens book)

What I liked best about this book was that it made the point that gratitude was like a muscle that could be trained--the more we work at being thankful, the more reasons to be thankful we find! That is a great message to introduce to young readers.

The book features kids being led through an exercise where they find something to the grateful for starting with each letter of the alphabet. There is a huge variety among the answers--everything from honeybees to utensils. Readers can sneak in some alphabet practice by having the kids call out the letters in sequence. Because each of the 26 items has two paragraphs attached, this may need to be broken up for preschool/pre-K kids depending on their tolerance for sitting still.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!