Review: Highly Recommend
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
Carmit Kagan has created a wonderful children's book with a clever, original idea. It is also well illustrated by Abira Das with simple and colorful pictures that easily capture and holds a child's attention. The book addresses a behavioral problem that is common to many families; most certainly mine! As a bonus, the book presents a game, complete with instructions on how to recreate the tools used in the book that will work to correct such a problem.Most of us have a "Johnny" living in our house; a little one with far too many toys and an unwillingness to clean up after himself/herself. Everyday Johnny's mother asks him to clean up his mess before bedtime and he tells her that he will do it later. Every night, after a bedtime story, his patient mother tucks him and Johnny drifts off to sleep. He awakens night after night seeing monsters in his room and calls for his mother. The monsters are shadows of his toys, left on his floor, cast on the wall. Every time Johnny awakens frightened his mother shows him the source of the "monster" and remedies the problem by putting the toy back in its proper place.After talking it over with her husband, Johnny's father devises a game called GO, which stands for Get Organized. This is a simple dice game that consists of a multicolored "dice" and a numbered dice. To play the game they toss both dice and match a number on one dice to the color on the other and that designates the color and number of toys that should be picked up and put away. All three play this fun new game and within a short time Johnny's room is clean!I love that the game has been designed based on a passage from Johnny's favorite bedtime story, another children's book by Carmit Kagan that quotes an old owl's wisdom, "Any problems you have, be they big or small, If you remember to have fun, You can solve them all."Carmit has created a fun, entertaining book that teaches children important lessons while focusing on the context of family working together to achieve a goal. This is an excellent book that I highly recommend for you and the little "Johnny" in your life! I'm just sad that I didn't think up this game first ;)Please check us out at Griffin's Honey  [...]