Nerdy Birdy Tweets is a great picture book written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Matt Davies. It is about two best friends who are very different, and one friend Nerdy Birdy finds this app called “Tweetster”, which has certainly no connections to Twitter. Nerdy Birdy’s best friend Vulture does not approve of Tweetster or any phone apps at all. Nerdy Birdy makes 500 friends on Tweetster and begins to talk to them more than he does to Vulture. When Nerdy Birdy sees Vulture eating road-kill, he takes a picture of her and sends it to all of his Tweetster friends. Vulture sees this and gets very mad at Nerdy Birdy, and flies away. Nerdy Birdy did not even notice that Vulture had left for an hour, and when he realized, he texted his Tweetster friends for advice. None of his friends were any help, and he realized that real life friends are more important than online friends. Nerdy Birdy then wen to find Vulture, and he apologized and became friends with Vulture again. This is a really great book with a great message that tells kids to appreciate their real friends because they will always have your back. Online friends are not trustworthy, and you should hang out with your real friends more than your online friends. This is a good book for kids around 11 years old because this is when they are getting phones, and they should learn to be responsible with their phones.

What Do You Do With An Idea? is an amazing picture book written by Kobi Yamada and Illustrated by Mae Besom. This book is about a child who has an idea but is afraid of sharing it with others because he thinks that other people will not support his idea. At first, the child stays away from his idea, thinking that it is silly. He soon warms up to his idea, and they become closer. His idea becomes larger as the child adds to it, and soon his idea is all around him wherever he goes. He decides to share his idea with others, and some people didn’t support it, but he still kept on trying. This book teaches kids about being confident no matter what they think will happen. Just because people might not like something you made, it doesn’t mean you can’t at least try. I think that this is a really good book for kids from 8-10 because this is when kids are learning to be more judgemental, so they should learn to just try no matter what results may come from what happens. Overall, What Do You Do With An Idea? is one of my favourite picture books, and it teaches a very important lesson.