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El mundo de Lucía (Lucy's world) #2
Flowy: An Illustrated Book For Kids About Friendship
Games. Friendship. Feelings… And An Important Lesson!
Lucy has received a beautiful gift, a shy and nice flower that she has named Flowy. But her arrival brings an important Lucy will have to look after Flowy! Will she be able to do it? Find out in this new story from the children's book series Lucy's World!
Flowy aims to show the values of friendship and responsibility through a story that seeks to encourage the creativity and imagination of their readers. And also… to have fun!
Flowy is a children's early learning book suitable as a read aloud book for baby, toddler and preschool readers; or a self read book for older children.
Lucy has received a beautiful gift, a shy and nice flower that she has named Flowy. But her arrival brings an important Lucy will have to look after Flowy! Will she be able to do it? Find out in this new story from the children's book series Lucy's World!
Flowy aims to show the values of friendship and responsibility through a story that seeks to encourage the creativity and imagination of their readers. And also… to have fun!
Flowy is a children's early learning book suitable as a read aloud book for baby, toddler and preschool readers; or a self read book for older children.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
44 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 5, 2017
62 people are currently reading
39 people want to read
About the author
Gilberto Mariscal
29 books4 followersGilberto feels like writting every morning. Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't. He always tries his best to write happy stories full of imagination, fantasy and optimism. He is the father of two amazing girls and amuse them whith long tales and fancy games.
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Gilberto se levanta todas las mañanas con muchas ganas de escribir. A veces lo hace, a veces no. En ocasiones le gusta lo que ha escrito, en otras no tanto. Pero siempre intenta que sus historias sean alegres, divertidas, y que estén llenas de imaginación, fantasía y optimismo. También es el padre de dos increíbles niñas a las que alimenta con largos cuentos y estrambóticos juegos.
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Gilberto se levanta todas las mañanas con muchas ganas de escribir. A veces lo hace, a veces no. En ocasiones le gusta lo que ha escrito, en otras no tanto. Pero siempre intenta que sus historias sean alegres, divertidas, y que estén llenas de imaginación, fantasía y optimismo. También es el padre de dos increíbles niñas a las que alimenta con largos cuentos y estrambóticos juegos.
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March 29, 2021
As far as being cute, Flowy is just that. My granddaughter loved the story and the colorful depictions. It teaches the importance of cultivating friendships and the necessary work that goes into being a responsible, kind friend. This IS make believe and fantasy for a child's imagination. I had a hard time convincing a clever four-year old of that.
The Little – "Mimi! (insert giggles and snorts) You can't dance with flowers."
Me – "Use your imagination, Leila."
The Little (spotting my mother's beautiful garden and uprooting a handful of freshly planted pink begonias, dirt dripping down her Sunday dress) – "Let's make the flowers dance, Mimi."
My mother missed the humor in this innocent mistake. Leila has a point. You really shouldn''t dance with flowers.😳
The Little – "Mimi! (insert giggles and snorts) You can't dance with flowers."
Me – "Use your imagination, Leila."
The Little (spotting my mother's beautiful garden and uprooting a handful of freshly planted pink begonias, dirt dripping down her Sunday dress) – "Let's make the flowers dance, Mimi."
My mother missed the humor in this innocent mistake. Leila has a point. You really shouldn''t dance with flowers.😳
September 28, 2021
Such a cute little book about a girl and her best friend - a flower.
March 18, 2020
The artwork in this is really cute, and I want to like it more than I do, but there's just so many issues here that I can't, in good conscience, do so.
For starters, the translation is clunky. It sounds like a translation, which good translations shouldn't do. It could really benefit from having a native speaker smooth it out a bit. Also, what's up with the over-usage of the word "Cool"? It seems really out of place here.
That issue aside, I also have some quibbles about the content.
First up, if you have an easily impressionable child who tends to copy things they see in books... steer clear of this one, unless you want dirt everywhere. The girl in this story plays with her flower by teaching it to dance, playing dress-up with it, and playing hide-and-seek. Unless you enjoy chasing your kid around with a vacuum and/or finding half-dead begonias "hiding" behind your couch a week after they went missing, you might want to rethink this one.
Secondly, this story deals with a living being that ultimately dies due to neglect. Yeah, you can jazz it up and make it cheery and give it a magical happy ending... but kids aren't as dumb as we think they are. It always boggles my mind how some adults forget just how much they were able to read between the lines as a kid. Or maybe I'm over-estimating their awareness. I dunno. All I DO know is that if I read this book as a kid, I would've been disturbed, because that flower is dead. And in real life, "magical tears" ain't gonna bring it back to life. It's dead, and it's all that little girl's fault, because she took ONE DAY away from playing with it to play with her other toys. If you really want to instill that kind of heavy guilt and existential dilemma on your kid, save yourself some time and skip this book - just get them a mother-in-law for Christmas, instead.
Which brings me to my next issue with the book. Flowers die. It's really the one thing they all do with alarming predictability. This book, however, implies that if you water a flower every day, it will live forever and smile and dance and be your friend - and if you skip a day, it will wilt and die and you will feel like a terrible human being. The book doesn't tell you that flowers will live for a short while, pretty much no matter what you do, and then wilt and die because that's what flowers do. If you want a permanent plant friend, get a fern. Or a cactus. Just don't dance with the cactus. Or, better yet, get a fish.
Ah, but therein lies the crux of my problem here. Were Flowy a fish, instead of a plant, I think it would be viewed in a wholly different light - because we all know fish are alive and we all know that seeing a goldfish go belly up in a children's book because the kid forgot to feed it one time would be abysmal. And if you're going to GO there, as a children's book author, you should probably have a better message in your book than "magical tears brought it back to life and we've learned our lesson to always keep our promises and take care of the things that are precious to us so they will be with us forever - lol, just kidding, it'll die in a week anyway."
Bottom Line: Kids books should be simple and cheery and have a good message. This one just... leaves me feeling confused and depressed. Get your kid a fern, instead.
For starters, the translation is clunky. It sounds like a translation, which good translations shouldn't do. It could really benefit from having a native speaker smooth it out a bit. Also, what's up with the over-usage of the word "Cool"? It seems really out of place here.
That issue aside, I also have some quibbles about the content.
First up, if you have an easily impressionable child who tends to copy things they see in books... steer clear of this one, unless you want dirt everywhere. The girl in this story plays with her flower by teaching it to dance, playing dress-up with it, and playing hide-and-seek. Unless you enjoy chasing your kid around with a vacuum and/or finding half-dead begonias "hiding" behind your couch a week after they went missing, you might want to rethink this one.
Secondly, this story deals with a living being that ultimately dies due to neglect. Yeah, you can jazz it up and make it cheery and give it a magical happy ending... but kids aren't as dumb as we think they are. It always boggles my mind how some adults forget just how much they were able to read between the lines as a kid. Or maybe I'm over-estimating their awareness. I dunno. All I DO know is that if I read this book as a kid, I would've been disturbed, because that flower is dead. And in real life, "magical tears" ain't gonna bring it back to life. It's dead, and it's all that little girl's fault, because she took ONE DAY away from playing with it to play with her other toys. If you really want to instill that kind of heavy guilt and existential dilemma on your kid, save yourself some time and skip this book - just get them a mother-in-law for Christmas, instead.
Which brings me to my next issue with the book. Flowers die. It's really the one thing they all do with alarming predictability. This book, however, implies that if you water a flower every day, it will live forever and smile and dance and be your friend - and if you skip a day, it will wilt and die and you will feel like a terrible human being. The book doesn't tell you that flowers will live for a short while, pretty much no matter what you do, and then wilt and die because that's what flowers do. If you want a permanent plant friend, get a fern. Or a cactus. Just don't dance with the cactus. Or, better yet, get a fish.
Ah, but therein lies the crux of my problem here. Were Flowy a fish, instead of a plant, I think it would be viewed in a wholly different light - because we all know fish are alive and we all know that seeing a goldfish go belly up in a children's book because the kid forgot to feed it one time would be abysmal. And if you're going to GO there, as a children's book author, you should probably have a better message in your book than "magical tears brought it back to life and we've learned our lesson to always keep our promises and take care of the things that are precious to us so they will be with us forever - lol, just kidding, it'll die in a week anyway."
Bottom Line: Kids books should be simple and cheery and have a good message. This one just... leaves me feeling confused and depressed. Get your kid a fern, instead.
August 24, 2019
This is a cute book about a girl, Lucy, and her plant. This one stretches the imagination a bit. You will have to watch your young ones to make sure they don't try what is in this book with plants around the house. You might have a very disappointed youngster.
Lucy loved plants. As a treat her mother would take her where a lot of plants grew so she could enjoy. One day she asked her mother for one. She promised to take care of it. Mother said yes and they went to pick out one. She found one, but asked the plant if it wanted to go home with her. She gave it the name of Flowy. They became the best of friends. She enjoyed dancing and taught her to dance. They played hide and seek. Then something bad happened. Flowy got sick. What made her sick? What healed her plant? You get to listen and find out. Yippee!!
I borrowed this book on a Kindle Unlimited website and so can you.
Lucy loved plants. As a treat her mother would take her where a lot of plants grew so she could enjoy. One day she asked her mother for one. She promised to take care of it. Mother said yes and they went to pick out one. She found one, but asked the plant if it wanted to go home with her. She gave it the name of Flowy. They became the best of friends. She enjoyed dancing and taught her to dance. They played hide and seek. Then something bad happened. Flowy got sick. What made her sick? What healed her plant? You get to listen and find out. Yippee!!
I borrowed this book on a Kindle Unlimited website and so can you.
August 27, 2020
Flowy: an illustrated book for kids about friendship (Lucy's world 2) by Gilberto Mariscal
Right from the start I love seeing the fields of blooming flowers.
Free gift offer then the story.
Children's colorful book about Lucy and she loves flowers. Her mom takes her to a flower shop and she gets to pick out a flower for herself.
She has SO many choices. Shows her taking very good care of it, in her house.
Flowy the flower talks and sings to Lucy and they get along just fine.
She has a birthday and plays with all new toys, forgetting about FLowy.
See what happens to Flowy and what Lucy does then...
Other works are highlighted at the end, by the author.
Right from the start I love seeing the fields of blooming flowers.
Free gift offer then the story.
Children's colorful book about Lucy and she loves flowers. Her mom takes her to a flower shop and she gets to pick out a flower for herself.
She has SO many choices. Shows her taking very good care of it, in her house.
Flowy the flower talks and sings to Lucy and they get along just fine.
She has a birthday and plays with all new toys, forgetting about FLowy.
See what happens to Flowy and what Lucy does then...
Other works are highlighted at the end, by the author.
July 1, 2020
Lovely!
What a wonderful story! I enjoyed it for three reasons:
First, the illustrations were very eye-catching.
Second, the character is very relatable and her relationship with Flowy was beautifully depicted.
Third, it’s a great way to show children how not keeping their promises can have consequences! I’m curious about the other Lucy’s World books as this was my first (even though it’s the second in the series of 10 others)!-
What a wonderful story! I enjoyed it for three reasons:
First, the illustrations were very eye-catching.
Second, the character is very relatable and her relationship with Flowy was beautifully depicted.
Third, it’s a great way to show children how not keeping their promises can have consequences! I’m curious about the other Lucy’s World books as this was my first (even though it’s the second in the series of 10 others)!-
September 4, 2020
A lesson in responsibility in this imaginative text
The Lucy series is adorably illustrated in vibrant colors with a quaint rendering of characters. Each page brings a visual treat to its viewers. The story is cute and Lucy learns that she must be responsible for Flowy, as she promised. There is ample diversity in sentence structure for this to expose a young reader to language.
The Lucy series is adorably illustrated in vibrant colors with a quaint rendering of characters. Each page brings a visual treat to its viewers. The story is cute and Lucy learns that she must be responsible for Flowy, as she promised. There is ample diversity in sentence structure for this to expose a young reader to language.
April 10, 2020
Cute book
I got this book for free on Amazon last night. It could be used as a way to open a conversation about responsibility with a child. My daughter just planted flower seeds so this story for right in with what she is learning how to grow flowers and being responsible for taking care of them. So glad that this cute book happened to be Audible for us to read.
I got this book for free on Amazon last night. It could be used as a way to open a conversation about responsibility with a child. My daughter just planted flower seeds so this story for right in with what she is learning how to grow flowers and being responsible for taking care of them. So glad that this cute book happened to be Audible for us to read.
October 18, 2020
Thoughtful read
This book follows Lucy as she cares for her friend, Flowy the flower. This is a wonderfully colorful book that reminds children to take care of their belongings and continue to care about their friends. It’s a sweet and short read, perfect to capture the attention of little ones and teach a lesson along the way. Great book!
This book follows Lucy as she cares for her friend, Flowy the flower. This is a wonderfully colorful book that reminds children to take care of their belongings and continue to care about their friends. It’s a sweet and short read, perfect to capture the attention of little ones and teach a lesson along the way. Great book!
July 13, 2021
🌼Excellent artwork, whimsical story📖
A flower that plays hide and seek and dress-up as a fairy godmother?! Lots of whimsy as Lucy cultivates a close friendship with her potted flower and almost loses her new friend. The pictures are really eye-catching, the story simple and with a life lesson. I can't see any reason why a preschooler would not love this book.
A flower that plays hide and seek and dress-up as a fairy godmother?! Lots of whimsy as Lucy cultivates a close friendship with her potted flower and almost loses her new friend. The pictures are really eye-catching, the story simple and with a life lesson. I can't see any reason why a preschooler would not love this book.
May 24, 2020
Nice story with meaning
My kids enjoyed this story and they understood the message it was sending. My son liked the colourful illustrations, my daughter was able to give an example of the message in her own words.
My kids enjoyed this story and they understood the message it was sending. My son liked the colourful illustrations, my daughter was able to give an example of the message in her own words.
September 17, 2024
Flowy Fun
"Flowy" is an imaginative story that combines a child's bond with her plant/flower and learning responsibility.
I really love how the book ultimately encourages plant owners to care for their plants. They're important life forms as well.
"Flowy" is an imaginative story that combines a child's bond with her plant/flower and learning responsibility.
I really love how the book ultimately encourages plant owners to care for their plants. They're important life forms as well.
April 27, 2020
This book was ok, but nothing special( as it is meant for children). Otherwise, a little kiddo would love it, for sure.
September 16, 2020
Buku yang ohsem.. Mengajar erti persahabatan.. Bacaan yang menarik bukan sahaja pada kanak-kanak malah orang dewasa..
October 16, 2020
What a colorful and beautiful book
We really enjoyed this colorful book. It is filled with joy, friendship and care. Really nice bedtime story for kids
We really enjoyed this colorful book. It is filled with joy, friendship and care. Really nice bedtime story for kids
January 24, 2021
48 - 2021
April 3, 2021
Flowy – Gilberto Mariscal – This was a freebie, and I love the illustrations! A cute story about responsibility! Happy Reading!
May 27, 2021
Beautiful story. Very pretty pictures. Nice for all ages.
May 2, 2023
A very nice story
I read this as a learner of Spanish. It is a lovely story with beautiful graphics. I enjoyed it as an adult and I am sure it will delight most children.
I read this as a learner of Spanish. It is a lovely story with beautiful graphics. I enjoyed it as an adult and I am sure it will delight most children.
April 6, 2024
It was imagination and so fun to read
January 1, 2025
This book was cute.
March 25, 2020
Lucy loves flowers and gardens. She "adopts" a little plant and she called it Flowy. They are best friends till...
August 22, 2019
This is a cute book about a girl, Lucy, and her plant. This one stretches the imagination a bit. You will have to watch your young ones to make sure they don't try what is in this book with plants around the house. You might have a very disappointed youngster.
Lucy loved plants. As a treat her mother would take her where a lot of plants grew so she could enjoy. One day she asked her mother for one. She promised to take care of it. Mother said yes and they went to pick out one. She found one, but asked the plant if it wanted to go home with her. She gave it the name of Flowy. They became the best of friends. She enjoyed dancing and taught her to dance. They played hide and seek. Then something bad happened. Flowy got sick. What made her sick? What healed her plant? You get to listen and find out. Yippee!!
I borrowed this book on a Kindle Unlimited website and so can you.
Lucy loved plants. As a treat her mother would take her where a lot of plants grew so she could enjoy. One day she asked her mother for one. She promised to take care of it. Mother said yes and they went to pick out one. She found one, but asked the plant if it wanted to go home with her. She gave it the name of Flowy. They became the best of friends. She enjoyed dancing and taught her to dance. They played hide and seek. Then something bad happened. Flowy got sick. What made her sick? What healed her plant? You get to listen and find out. Yippee!!
I borrowed this book on a Kindle Unlimited website and so can you.
October 11, 2020
Cute little story about a little girl who loves flowers.
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