Honey’s Helpful Hints – How Green is Your Dog? by Brian & Anne Moses – The Strawberry Post
A book review of a fun children’s picture book about a dog who wants to help her family be more environmental and tips on how to be more green along with her poodle friend Jimmy.
About Honey’s Helpful Hints
Title: Honey’s Helpful Hints: How Green is Your Dog?
Author: Brian & Anee Moses
Illustrator: Claire F. Lewis
Publisher: HB Publishing House
Genre: Children’s picture book
Book format reviewed: Digital
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Description: Honey is no ordinary labrador pup – she’s a dog with a mission! She’s worried about plnet Earth and wants to be green, but there are limits to what a dog can achieve, especially when her best pal Jimmy the poodle gets involved. Join these mischievous eco-warriors with waggy tails as they try their best to save the planet one pawprint at a time!
*Free copy provided by Hygge Book Tours for review…
My review and thoughts on Honey’s Helpful Hints
Aw, this is such a lovely picture book which can help teach kids how to be more green. Honey is a labrador dog whose family has nicknamed her ‘Dustbin Dog’ because she likes to eat any food that’s been wasted. Honey isn’t just rummaging through the trash for fun though, she’s trying not to waste food, as well as teach her family different ways be more environmental along with her neighbour poodle Jimmy. How many things can Honey help to make her family more green? This picture book is filled with lovely illustrations and text.
The book begins by introducing Honey as a fun loving labrador who loves to not waste things like water and food. As we learn more about Honey though we discover through her story with her family the different ways we can all be more green such as turning the thermostat down and recycling. The text has some lovely rhyming to it and I do like the way certain dog behaviours like eating out of the bin are reinvented with an environmental twist, showing kids some real and easy ways they can help the environment and be more green through simple actions.
The illustrations are all so fun and colourful. I love the way Honey looks as well as how fun the pictures look among some of the text on certain pages. Every page is clear to see and I do like how cute Honey and Jimmy look. The book has a good ending though if I’m honest I would have liked an additional page with a summary of tips or some extra ones to reinforce the green message for kids reading. But overall a lovely picture book and a fun way to introduce being environmental to children.
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About the authors Brian & Anne Moses
Brian has been labelled ‘one of the nation’s favourite children’s poets’, and he and Anne have co-written books previously, including ‘A Wartime Cookbook’ for Wayland and four picture books for the American market
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-Thanks to Hygge Book Tours for a chance to be a part of this blog tour (apologies for the delay)! 🙂
Other children’s picture books about being more green
-Read review – Frog in a Fog by Marielle Bayliss & Mariela Malova (Frog’s Bog #2)
-Read review – Blobfish by Olaf Falafel
-Read review – Better Than New by Robert Broder & Lake Buckley
-Read review – Fred and the Fantastic Tub-Tub by Zeb Soanes & Anja Uhren
-Read review – The Tale of a Toothbrush by M. G. Leonard & Daniel Rieley
-Read review – Clem and Crab by Fiona Lumbers
-Read review – Frog and Beaver by Simon James
What do you think of this book? Are you doing anything to be green? Let me know what you think in the comments below 🙂
