Jake the Growling Dog Shares His Trail: A Kids Book about Diversity, Friendship, Disability Awareness, Kindness, and Overcoming Fears. Review by Jennifer Ramos

Jake the Growling Dog Shares His Trail: A Children’s Picture Book about Sharing, Disability Awareness, Kindness, and Overcoming Fears by Samantha Shannon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This very cute and valuable kids book was not only such an enjoyable read but it is such a great and essential lesson for kids as well as good reminders for grown ups. This wonderful tale takes us to know a bit more about Jake, the growling dog, and how his curiosity ends up on a journey of what he finds in the nearby forest. Along the way, this journey takes Jake from his curious findings leading to some worrisome thinking and into a path of new discoveries and friends.

Being an educator and a parent, this is such a great tool for guiding such a thorough lesson for kids to relate and being able to apply it to their own lives. For the value of kindness, overcoming fear and worries, and sharing are such essential values for kids to learn at such a young age and carry with them into adulthood. Even as adults and caregivers, these are such vital lessons for us to be reminded of as our young ones are learning these concepts as well as we model these behaviors in our everyday lives. Children are very good observers and if they see these actions in their everyday lives, it will become a part of them as well.

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