Surprisingly, this book teaches children the important lesson that WANTING to help isn't enough. I feel like we need more of this kind of lesson for toddlers.
As I progressed through this book, I found myself really disliking this book. The message of this one did not make a lot of sense to me. Little Miss Helpful is rather well unhelpful. Always trying to help others, but she does more damage than good. Honestly, this book felt like a book telling others not to help out others. I don’t like that message or moral from the book. This is why I could not give it a rather high rating, it just felt like it wasn’t a well-thought out concept for a book about helping others. Seriously, never feel bad for trying to help others, even when it turns out wrong. The artwork is wonderful, but that message overshadows everything about this book. I would not recommend reading this to a child, as it may confuse them on being nice to others or trying to help them out. I understand for a child they need a balance of being helpful and knowing when to step back to allow someone else to take care of things themselves, but that doesn’t really seem like the point of this particular book. If it had been, I would have recommended this. Due to that though, I would say leave this until the end of your “Little Miss” journey should you decide to take these on. This one is simply not really helpful.
Ah, Mr Men and Little Miss, how wonderful you are!
These books made up so much of my childhood. No matter what I would go ahead and pick one up. I worked my way through them all a couple of times. Each one has a wonderful story for the child to engage with, each character being fun to read.
Everyone has a bias for their favourite character, yet every book is delightful.