A review by teenytinylibrary
Mr. King's Machine by Geneviève Côté
2.0
Mr. King loves flowers, especially when they're beautiful and fresh. He DOESN'T love seeing nasty caterpillars munching on the perfect flowers. So he builds a machine to help him catch the caterpillar. What Mr. King doesn't expect is that his machine does something other than help catch caterpillars - something bad.
This is a really oversimplified look into ecology and taking care of the environment. After Mr. King realizes he's polluting, he just makes a fan to blow the smoke away and plants seeds. Yes, he's doing something, but he's not really FIXING what he did. I might be being too nitpicky. The illustrations are very cute - colorful and well defined. I have an e-galley of this so the layout isn't finalized and I'm curious to see how the text integrates with the illustrations. This is cute, but I wouldn't use it for storytime.
This is a really oversimplified look into ecology and taking care of the environment. After Mr. King realizes he's polluting, he just makes a fan to blow the smoke away and plants seeds. Yes, he's doing something, but he's not really FIXING what he did. I might be being too nitpicky. The illustrations are very cute - colorful and well defined. I have an e-galley of this so the layout isn't finalized and I'm curious to see how the text integrates with the illustrations. This is cute, but I wouldn't use it for storytime.