Stuff by Margie Palatini Ilustrated by Noah Z. Jones

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3 stars

Today I signed the kids up for the summer reading club at the library. My kids loved doing it last year. They were always excited about what their next prize would be. I liked it because Miss V won a pizza dinner! No cooking for me that night!

And while my kids should want to read with out getting prizes, I will take whatever encentive I can get. Sometimes in the summer our days can be so lazy that it will be the end of the day and I will realize we haven't done any reading or anything. So, if the kids can help remind me, so much the better.

Synopsis

Edward the rabbit loves is stuff. He has so much stuff that it comes between himself and his friends. Then something happens that makes him rethink his hoarding habits.

My Thoughts

To be completely honest I got this book for my husband. We are slooooowly decluttering our space and  I thought this would be a cute book to help as a motivator. Not sure what he thought about it, but he definitely identified with Edward and not wanting to get rid of stuff.

This definitely wasn't a wow book and sometimes didn't make the most sense to me. While it is a children's book it looked at the whole hoarding thing with a rather simplistic approach. People with major hoarding issues can't just get rid of their stuff just like that. They hoard for complex issues and if their friends came and just had them get rid of stuff they would probably harbour resentment.

So, this was an okay book. Definitely nothing to write home about though.