Books for Young Readers
The Hug Machine by Scott Campbell
Publisher: Atheneum Books | August 2014
Age: Preschool – 2nd Grade | 40 pages
This endearing story encourages a warm, caring, and buoyantly affectionate approach to life. Everyone deserves a hug—and this book!
The Hug Machine is an adorable book about a little boy who loves to give hugs. He is so good at hugging that he calls himself ‘The Hug Machine’. Nothing is too big or too small – or even too prickly – to receive a hug. And how does the Hug Machine get all that energy to keep hugging? Pizza, of course!
With only a small amount of text and many fun illustrations, this cute picture book is aimed at pre-school through second grade children.
I realize the little boy is hugging everyone and everything in town and indiscriminate hugging is not a good thing to teach a young child. However, I liked this book enough to assume that he knew all the people he was hugging and his parents were OK with it, so it was all good – and besides, this a book to be read with the very young, and an ensuing discussion about who to hug would be most appropriate.
Rating: 4½ stars
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Source: Review copy provided by the publisher through AmazonVine.
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Oh my, I want that book – it looks adorable!!
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Sounds like a sweet book for little ones! 🙂
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Hi Leslie,
Isn’t it such a shame that neither children nor adults can behave spontaneously these days, without someone casting aspersions about your character or intentions. Everyone deserves a hug now and again 🙂 What a lovely book.
Yvonne
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That looks adorable.
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So cute. I want a hug!!
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