Merry Christmas to You, Blue Kangaroo!
On first read, we really didn’t like this one. But as we read a few times more, it really grew on us. Blue Kangaroo is a stuffed animal and our little one loves stuffed animals too. I see daily our little one play with stuffed animals in a very similar way as the main character in the story. Despite it taking a second read for me to start to enjoy the book, our little one did relate to the main character’s love of Blue Kangaroo right away on first read. Additionally, Blue Kangaroo is up during the night dealing with Santa (or Father Christmas as this author calls him) and we have an almost daily activity of creating stories around what our little one’s animals do overnight, which for us made the story even more relatable. (We are working on getting the first story of ours published as our own book for little ones right now!)
Also, obviously, this is a Christmas story and there’s a lot of great, traditional, and common, Christmas activities in the story, which make it fun to read and easy to relate to. Even if the reader has no common connections like we did with the stuffed animals and the stories about what they do overnight, the story is a fun read, and the illustrations are cute.
Cautions: None really that we can think of.
