Children’s Picture Book Review: Ellie-May & her toy dragon, Ben, by Genna Rowbotham

Purchase Links
Genna’s website:             www.gennarowbotham.co.uk/shop
Amazon (Paperback):    https://amzn.to/3InCyJN
Amazon (eBook):            https://amzn.to/3GmtLp1
Google Play: (eBook):    https://bit.ly/3QjcKR9

Ellie-May & her Toy Dragon, Ben

Feeling so excited for a new day ahead, Ellie-May struggles to sleep. So when her toy dragon, Ben grows into a real-life dragon, they take to the starry skies and embark on a night-time adventure together, where they visit Ben’s castle and enjoy a dragon party.

But as the sun begins to rise and the stars fade, will Ellie-May be able to stay awake?

My Review

Thanks to Rachel for organising this blog tour and to Genna Rowbotham for sending me a copy of this book.

Ellie-May can’t sleep, so she goes on an adventure with her dragon, Ben. They have a party with other dragons and then go home to sleep.

It’s got DRAGONS in it! I was not going to say no! Plus, I enjoy reading picture books, if the rhyming is good and the pictures up to snuff. This one definitely passes the test. The illustrations are digitally generated, and the rhyming story works quite well. I get the feeling Genna Rowbotham has had to deal with hyper toddlers/young children eating too much at a party and getting overtired because they were too excited to sleep the night before. Sometimes a dragon would be helpful when it comes to child wrangling…

The dragons are all very cute and I want one. The author needs to develop a line of plushies based on dragons and other characters in the book. There’s a random stegosaurus hiding among the dragons at the party. I thought the dragon band was hilarious. I have a very child-like sense of humour sometimes, I can’t help it.

Muchly recommended.


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Author Bio –

Genna Rowbotham wrote her first children’s story in 2017, fitting it in around caring for her young family, and is now an author of nine children’s books as well as a short story in a magazine. Rowbotham has a passion to write stories that help entertain, educate and inspire young-ones as the reader can escape the seriousness of life and enter a world of magic.

Her other interests include reading, writing, travelling, astrology, spending time with her family and exploring the great outdoors.

She lives with her lively, imaginative family in Derbyshire in a house full of books, magazines as well as colourful drawings and all sorts of artwork from her children (empty cereal boxes are often taken from the recycle bin to reinvent something wonderful like a spy camera or telescope).

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