Super cute book, very unique! Dylan takes advantage of his birthday wish and chooses a pet as his present. As he takes his new pet on a birthday adventure with his friend, Kiki, he is able to use his "superhero" power of being a polyglot. This book would be perfect to introduce young children to multiple new languages. The illustrations are colorful, fun, and simple.

This was the very first book I've ever read that has a QR code to help you with pronunciation! The beautiful illustrations had my attention from the cover - gorgeous drawings!! I'm an animal lover - so when Dylan asked for a CHICKEN for his birthday and his dad said YES - I was fully invested. It's not just a story about a kid getting a chicken for his birthday - it's educational - I even learned something new from this book - I now know what a polyglot is, and how to pronounce a tiny handful of words in other languages! What a gem for young readers!! In exchange for a honest review, I received a digital copy of Dylan's Birthday Present - and I loved it!!! I realized that this is the first in a new series and can't wait to see where we go next!

I loved this book! One of the reasons that I was interested in it is precisely because my grandson's name is Dylan, and he is also a bilingual child. This book celebrates language -- and centers a trilingual boy who speaks Portuguese to his father, Ukranian to his mother and English to his friend, who is a little girl who is also bilingual in English and Swahili. Due to his ability to speak Portuguese, Dylan is able to find his lost chicken (who also speaks "Chickenese." The children in this book affirm and embrace their languages and also introduce the word "polyglot" to their audience, (never too early to teach this important word and concept). The book also features a moment in which Dylan cries, which normalizes this often very gendered expression of emotion.