Dear Girl Amy Krouse Rosenthal Reviews Summary

Quality of the Book

Pros:

• "I love this book, I used it as more of a big card and wrote my own personal thoughts and messages throughout."
• "This book is wonderful! I hope it inspires her to know she’s beautiful and wonderful just the way she is!"
• "Love the story this book tells!"
• "It's truly wonderful & I hope my young girl grows up to hold onto these sweet words of wisdom."
• "This is a beautiful book to give to any young girl in your life."
• "When you turn the last page, you will get tears of joy in your eyes!"
• "Absolutely love this!!! Can’t wait to read this to my daughter."

Cons:

• "I really liked this idea but boy did this make me angry. Page 4 and 5 make red hair, feckless and birthmarks to be a “flaw”."
• "I purchased this book in anticipation of the June birth of my first great granddaughter... Very disappointed in the quality."
• "I tried to locate the seller of this book-only the writers and illustrators names were available. The book was supposed to come yesterday.-I received it today. The cover is bent at bottom and top."
• "The book is great, but arrived wet due to the rain. Amazon needs to be more careful about delivery."
• "Love the actual content of the book. However, a little disappointed in quality, as one of my pages, the print is almost not readable."
• "The book is a must have.....What im mad about is its a gift and the cover is ripped."
• "The cover is bent at bottom and top. There were dirty handprints, yes, I paid for a new book!, on the back."

Empowerment and Messages

Pros:

• "This is a wonderful well written book. It has a valuable message for any girl."
• "Inspiring and beautifully written."
• "The messages this book sends out are beautiful influences for young (or grown) girls to take away."
• "I can't make it through the book without crying. It's all the right messages I want my daughter to know."
• "I bought this as a gift for a young woman that I mentor. She loved it. It has a positive message and one of encouragement. I will buy more."
• "This book is full of pseudo empowerment messages that just reinforce some really terrible ideas."
• "I absolutely love Dear Boy and was so excited to get this one for my daughter. However, it really falls short in terms of messaging."

Cons:

• "A sweet book of affirmations most appropriate for use as a gift for the girl in your life assuming she is either white or maybe eastern Asian."
• "Fun book.....a little simple...and not much of a story."
• "This book reads like a manual so nothing poetic or rhythmic about how it is written. It is also pretty lengthy."
• "I'm disappointed this book gets high reviews, I find it to be mediocre at best. The language is clumsy and the messages very superficial."
• "Instead of this book encouraging girls to push boundaries it actually just pushes them in another box."
• "I dislike any book for girls that tells girls they have to choose between being pretty /a princess and playing outside/being active."
• "Call me crazy but I thought this book was a bore... It’s sort of like random tips/advice in no discernible order and not fun to read to her at all."

Illustrations and Design

Pros:

• "It has beautiful drawings on every page."
• "Nice graphics which help explain messages of the book."
• "The illustrations are simple yet beautiful."
• "Loved the simple clever illustrations! This book was super unique but simple."
• "The illustrations were simple but direct."
• "The illustrations are great and the words are empowering and inspirational."
• "Illustrations are beautiful and fun, it’s easy to read and for young ones to understand, overall it’s a favorite pic of ours!"

Cons:

• "This book sounds depressive and I did not like the illustrations."
• "This book would be nice for a 5 year old and up. I bought it for my 1 year old daughter, and the illustrations do not grab her attention at all."
• "It looks smaller in pictures, but there is a puncture in the page and the end cover of the book."
• "I am absolutely SICKENED by the ink issue!"
• "The book is very beautiful, but the shipping time is too long, it seems that they had sent it by horse or by turtle, they need to improve the shipping."
• "Pretty disappointed as it was a gift."
• "Sweet and seems positive until you read companion book ‘Dear Boy’ and see that stereotyped girl/boy characteristics are encouraged and praised for each sex."