Chicken Soup for the Soul BABIES: Fast AND Slow

by JaNay Brown-Wood, Jade Orlando (Illustrator)

Chicken Soup for the Soul Babies combines sweet stories with humorous lessons to bring out little one's best behavior!

Jaguar likes to go fast, but Sloth likes to go slow; Jaguar and Sloth both try out each other's speeds, and learn something new about themselves and one another.

We accept one another's differences when we understand that we come from different walks of life, and some walks are just slower than others.

Genres: Picture Books

24 pages, Board Book

Published April 12, 2022

About the author

JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD is an award-winning children’s author, educator, and scholar. Her first book Imani’s Moon won the NAESP Children’s Book of the Year Award, and her second book Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and won the CELI Read Aloud Book Award. She has several poems published including Falling Leaves in the poetry anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (Lerner/Millbrook, 2019) a Chicago Public Library’s Best Informational Books for 2019, an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book, and a Notable Children’s Book for the Global Society. She has more than seven forthcoming books including Shhh! The Baby’s Asleep (Charlesbridge, forthcoming 2021), Where in the Garden a four-book series (Peachtree, forthcoming 2021, 2022, 2023) and Jam, Too (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House, forthcoming 2023). She is represented by the fabulous Karen Grencik of Red Fox Literary. Learn more about her here at www.janaybrownwood.com or follow her on Twitter @janaybrownwood.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars
This is a sturdy boardbook with adorable graphics of a sloth and a cheetah. They talk about how one is fast and one is slow. They decide to trade for a while. They think the other speed was good but like their own the best. Then other animals chime in with their own speeds and it is decided that all speeds are good and acceptable. This is definitely a message book and at the back there are ways for adults to talk with the children that they are reading the book with about how to best discuss differences and how to talk about them and accept them.

[Peacegal · Rating 3 out of 5]

This cute little board book compares differences. Jaguar likes to go fast, whereas Sloth likes to do things slowly. After talking to each other and trying out each other's view of the world, they realize that their different ways of doing things is right for them individually.

[Krista · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another bright, colorful board book.
Over all the story line feels disjointed and it doesn't flow well when reading it aloud to a child.
It's also not highly educational.