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    Margo’s Magnificent Choice and Max’s Magnificent Choice | Dedicated Review

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    The Children’s Book Review | January 10, 2014

    Maxs-Magnificent-ChoiceMargo’s Magnificent Choice
    Max’s Magnificent Choice

    By Chris Kent Phelps and Cindy Kent

    Hardcover: 32 pages

    Age Range: 4-8 years

    Publisher: Tacky Box LLC (January, 2014)

    ISBN (Margo): 978-0-9899670-0-6

    ISBN (Max): 978-0-9899670-1-3

    What to expect: Parenting Tool, Kindness, Friendship, Language

    Gone are the days of washing children’s mouths out with soap when tacky language learned on the playground makes its way home. Thankfully, parents and caregivers struggling with ways to tactfully disable distasteful words can arm themselves with The Tacky Box set: A hardcover book with watercolor illustrations, a special wooden box, a notepad and suggestions of use from the author.

    From a parent’s experience and wisdom comes this new story in two books (one for the girls and one for the boys—sold separately) for warding off tacky language and encouraging kindness. Margo (Max) the monkey lives in a lush jungle with many jungle neighbors. She (he) is the fastest and smartest and prettiest (handsome) animal around, but she (he) isn’t the happiest. Converting jungle neighbors into jungle friends seems to be a problem: “She (He) seemed to always say things that made them turn away.”

    Margo's Magnificent Choice Illustration

    Tacky Box in useFeeling very lonely and sad, Margo (Max) readily takes advice from a wise owl: “Margo (Max), you have an important choice to make. In this jungle you’ll hear many words, some kind and some tacky. …  If you want to be as handsome on the inside as you are on the outside, you must choose your words carefully.” The owl provides Margo (Max) with a special box where she (he) can write any tacky words she (he) uses on a piece of paper to place in the box and remove the word from her (his) heart and mind forever. Feeling empowered and ready to use only kind words, Margo (Max) places the tacky words she (he) used that day into the box and discovers that, when kind words are used, all of her (his) jungle neighbors are actually her (his) jungle friends.

    Decorated Tacky BoxThis is a well-written story that teaches kids about the power of words and the impact of making good choices. When combined with the Tacky Box the story makes a very effective and hands-on parenting tool and proves that learning about kindness can be very fun.

    Dedicated Reviews allow authors and illustrators to gain prompt visibility for their work. The author of this book paid for this non-biased review. Learn more …

    *Disclosure: Please note that this post may contain affiliate links that share some commission. Rest assured that these will not affect the cost of any products and services promoted here. Our team always provides their authentic opinion in all content published on this site.

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    Bianca Schulze is the founder of The Children’s Book Review. She is a reader, reviewer, mother and children’s book lover. She also has a decade’s worth of experience working with children in the great outdoors. Combined with her love of books and experience as a children’s specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion for children’s literature to grow readers. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she now lives with her husband and three children near Boulder, Colorado.

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