Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman

Something, Someday Reviews

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  Dee - HIATUS!

  4 stars. An interesting picture book with hopeful & inspirational words by the youngest poet laureate, Amanda Gorman. Perhaps it’s message will motivate and stick with some youngsters?🤷🏻‍♀️
  
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  Shirley Kiddo

  I know this is mainly for children but it's perfect for adults who are still trying to find their way.
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  ReadingWithMyCats Allie Cat meow

  This absolutely stunning.
  
  For both adults and children. The message so clear
  
  For the generations that haven’t learned/been told that you can’t do anything to change the way things are, that it’s hopeless and to us that continually need to unlearn that it’s always in our power to make a difference.
  
  Amanda Gorman is such an inspiration and hero to me.
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  David

  Amanda has this simple way of pointing out things that are wrong while keeping a very positive energy conveying that things will get better. This book will inspire little children (everyone, really) on how they can make a difference with their small acts of community improvement (clean-up, planting flowers). And once the dominoes start falling in the improvement-direction, then we are all on the right track!
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  Elizabeth☮

  Dealing with environmental issues can seem overwhelming, but making small strides in your community can have big impacts. That is the lesson in Gorman's picture book. It's all about bringing people together with a common goal. A positive message for kids and adults alike.
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  Heidi

  A treasure! Inspiring hope-filled poetic text, accompanied by imaginative, gorgeous illustrations. Loved it!
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  Sarah BT

  I love Christian Robinson's art and it pairs beautifully with this poem. A lovely book about how a small act can create big changes.
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  Ann Haefele

  Poet Amanda Gorman teams up with illustrator Christian Robinson to create a perfect book about hope , beauty and the environment. While it’s meant for children, adults will find its message heartening. Perfect book to read on Earth Day. The illustrations are what makes this story perfect for Earth day, but a different set of illustrations could change the message entirely. Poem is “a timeless message of hope.”( blurb quote)
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  DaNae

  The definition of hope, positivity and initiative.
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  Taylynn

  You better bet I’m going to count this picture book because I read it to earn my “Best of 2023” Amazon Kindle Challenge. It was fine.
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  myutokki ✶꩜ .ᐟ

  100/5 🩵🩵
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  Jaclyn

  Good message about helping community. Work well for Earth Day
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  Hendrix Eva

  Beautiful
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  Holly

  Baby's first book on organizing.
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  Kara

  O. M. G. Loved this book! I can’t think of a better collab than Amanda Gorman and Christian Robinson! 🩵🩵
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  Rebecca

  A winning combo of Amanda Gorman and Christian Robinson. This is a story of seeing something wrong and working to make it better. My favorite part is how it doesn't work out at first -- it's the trying over and over that matters.
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  Jennifer

  Often, world problems can seem so big that we cannot make a dent in change or have any noticeable impact. The overwhelming size of a problem or issue can seem insurmountable. Amanda Gorman powerfully put these feelings into poetic form and, with Christian Robinson’s diverse, representative, powerful illustrations, offers a reminder that small steps can make big change…even if those small steps encounter obstacles along the way.
  
  While this is intended for children, this picture book is a perfect example of how this art form is for adults as well. I continue to be awed by Christian Robinson’s artwork; Amanda Gorman’s words dance in my ears. The overall message and arc of the story, while starting with a feeling of helplessness, left me feeling like I, too, can make a difference.
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  Book Buying With Katie

  So lovely and empowering and important.
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  Rachel

  The illustrations in this book get a resounding 5. The text I'm giving a 2.5.
  
  For how much I love Amanda Gorman's poetry, I'm not sure why I haven't enjoyed her children's books very much. It must not translate as well for me. This book seemed mildly preachy to me. I think that I appreciated the sentiment, but not the delivery.
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  M. Lauritano

  I really love Christian Robinson’s art here. He tried out a couple different collage approaches in this book and they never failed to charm. I do question the concept of the pictorial narrative here as it adapts Gorman’s text. I feel as if the author is speaking to a lot more than what is shown on the page and children are likely to miss that. There are a lot of picture books with this sort of tone and message these days. This one might be less memorable than others, but it’s always a delight to experience Robinson’s illustrations.
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  Candice Hale

  🪴🅼🅸🅽🅸 🅱🅾🅾🅺 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆🪴
  
  ✨ 𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓭𝓪𝔂 by Amanda Gorman✨
  
  ▪️ 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Making a difference is a big first step into making our world better so to see children become activists for their communities warms my heart and shows me humanity isn’t dead. It tells me that we are definitely bigger and stronger together. Changes occur over time, but they won’t ever happen if we do not act or even try. Illustrator Christian Robinson pulls the emotions from the children together effortlessly in the picture book to show readers how scared children become beacons of change and hope as they make a difference.
  
  ▪️ 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿’𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲: Hope starts within us. No matter how young we are we can be doers, or activists. Gorman shows us that if there’s an injustice, or rather suggests if there is this thing that “cannot be fixed but you know you can help,” then you can set the wheels in motion to make a specific change for the better. All you need is the idea, hope, and motivation. Gorman knows hope manifests into dreams and transformations.
  
  ▪️𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸: While the audiobook, offered as an ALC by Listening Library through @prhaudio, was only five minutes, I wanted to hear this one in the writer’s voice. Gorman’s voice just oozes hope and inspiration. I read it through once on my own and then allowed the audio version to come through with its message of clear positivity, inspiration, and change. The audiobook is not simply essential, but it is supplemental to the reader to know the author’s passion behind the content she writes about. I enjoy the audio much more than my reading.
  
  ▪️𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  
  ▪️𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱: For readers of children’s literature and picture books (ages 4-8) with topics surrounding geography and culture, growing up and understanding the facts of life, environmentalism, change and effect, hope, and transformation.
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  Ellen Notbohm

  This was my personal Children’s Book of the Year for 2023. Amanda Gorman, the brilliant young poet who gave us the unforgettable The Hill We Climb in 2021, has worked her magic in a powerful call to action for children to follow their instincts to be the agents of social change.
  
  When a child confronts urban blight, homelessness, the aged and disabled, the answer he gets from adults is to look the other way:
  
  “You are told this cannot be fixed, but you know you can help.
  You’re told this won’t work, but how will you know if you never try.”
  
  One line at a time, Gorman walks the child through the difficult emotions or fear, confusion, and anger—and then on to hope, determination, building community . . .
  “. . . until you are no longer beginning. You are winning.”
  
  This deeply affecting book is a contemporary child’s embodiment of the Margaret Mead quote I have lived by all my life: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
  
  My thirty-something son read it and declared, as he often does about children’s books, “This is great. Adults should read it.”
  
  
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  Sym K.

  What a stunning book I am so glad I picked up. Let me tell you, the reason I picked it up was because of the title and front cover. I read it without knowing who the author is, thinking how melodiously poetic this book is. And then! I looked at the name.
  
  Amanda Gorman. The first National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States(2017). The youngest poet to write and read her work at a presidential inauguration. The girl in her yellow dress whose words I (and many others)fell in love with as she delivered her poem in Washington D.C. in 2021. That Amanda Gorman wrote this book.
  
  Of course.
  
  Simple words that flow flawlessly and melodiously delivering a strong message wrapped in warmth.
  
  Suddenly, there's something
  You're sure is right.
  Something you know
  You helped fix.
  Something small that changed -
  Something big.
  
  The power of one small good winning over problems that seem big enough to be impossible to fix. The power of resilience. The power of persistence. In the face of adversity.
  
  Christian Robinson is a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor winner and has done a brilliant job with the illustrations. Bold, bright and perfectly right to go with the beautiful text.
  
  Author: Amanda Gorman
  Illustrator: Christian Robinson
  Publisher: Viking Books for Young Reader
  Publish Date: 2023
  
  Recommended Age: 4 - 8 years
  Recommended Grade: preschool - 3
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  Amy Dalin

  Have you ever been told a problem is too big and cannot be fixed? Have you ever been told to sit and wait even though you are tired of waiting? This book is a story of being hopeful and optimistic in a time of doubt and struggle. The story never mentions any characters by name and actually addresses the reader the entire time. This story follows a little boy who is collecting trash and trying to make his neighborhood better. After being told that nothing will get better, this little boy holds onto hope anyways and eventually plants a garden. He makes friends and they help him with his garden. It is not always perfect, but they decide to keep working together! This is a great book to teach children that you are never too little to make a difference. I love that this book starts with a little boys dream that blossoms into a whole community project. The illustrations are simple yet colorful. Since the story never states what the boy is doing, the illustrations tell his story. I would recommend this book for students from 2nd grade to 4th grade.
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  Ash

  A children’s books that demonstrates what I have felt and heard from a young age about how climate change isn’t tea or isn’t serious, but this book portrays it with a sense of strength and hope in the youth to create movements to help communities find ways to make the world better.
  
  Climate change always has and continues to be a big concern of mine, so much so that I would experience big anxiety when my parents would go to town twice in one day and burn fuel that would go into the air and contribute to greenhouse gasses. I would beg them not to to the point of irrationality at times, because I yet didn’t understand how systemic the problem is and that the narrative that it’s just on individuals to make sacrifices to help the environment is false and flawed; it’s up to us to change the systems and industries that are the biggest contributors.
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  E

  You are told, you are told, you are told, you’re told … So many things you are told that cannot be, but you know, and you do, something, and you grow. And you help others grow. And together you change the world.
  
  This deeply moving work is a must have for every home with children. So many times children are told. They are not heard. They are not invited into the conversation. Their opinion is not part of the discourse. But small hearts feel, sometimes even more deeply than big ones. And sometimes that little heart tells them they can change the world.
  
  Beautiful and inspiring work of art from both Amanda and Christian.
  
  Highly recommend for all ages but most especially little ones.
  
  This gets my huggable book award.❤️