Heidi lends a helping hand in the twenty-sixth Heidi Heckelbeck adventure!
One day, when Heidi’s teacher, Mrs. Welli, teaches a lesson on the importance of helping and giving back to the community, she and her friends decide that it’s time to volunteer!
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
All the Heidi Heckelbeck books have been pretty good, but this was one of my least favourites. Maybe I'm just triggered from slime ptsd and have a bad association with it, but half of the book was about slime and that's too 2019 for me.
The park cleanup part of this book was 4 stars, the slime part was 2.5. The healthy soda section was fun and there were actually some good ideas (although PB/jam isn't really 'healthy').
The park cleanup was pretty good, but I think it was a little extreme for Heidi to get that much attention (it was a little bit sending the wrong message) - she should 100% get credit for her idea, but they also need to give credit to everyone who was doing all the work and helped organize it (which was not just an eight year old kid!).
Heidi lends a helping hand in the art room and then she starts to like cleaning up, so she does that every day. She never wants to stop cleaning up. She helps to clean up Trace Park that everyone calls Trash Park in town.
This a pretty straight forward easy reader, not a lot going on and not huge character development. didn't hate it, and wouldn't resist reading the rest of the (what appears to be a very long) series, but doubt either Lillian or I will go out of our way to find any of those books.