{"id":42273,"date":"2025-04-26T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42273"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:43:29","slug":"review-of-free-kid-to-good-home-by-hiroshi-ito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42273","title":{"rendered":"Review of Free Kid to Good Home, by Hiroshi Ito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free_kid_to_good_home_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free_kid_to_good_home_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45161\" \/><\/a><em>Free Kid to Good Home<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Hiroshi Ito<br \/>\ntranslated by Cathy Hirano<\/p>\n<p>Gecko Press, 2022.  First published in Japan in 1995. 109 pages.<br \/>\nReview written March 1, 2023, from a library book.<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun book for beginning but confident readers.  I&#8217;m putting it with beginning chapter books, because it&#8217;s about that reading level, but it doesn&#8217;t actually have chapters.  And there are black, white, and red drawings on every page.<\/p>\n<p>The book begins as a little girl gets a new brother.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He looks just like a potato.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After her mother pays attention only to the potato-face baby, the girl decides to run away and find a new home.<\/p>\n<p>She does this by finding a box and writing &#8220;Free Kid&#8221; on the box.  She sits in the box out where people pass by and tries to look cute.<\/p>\n<p>Adults are busy and don&#8217;t pay a lot of attention, but one by one a dog, a cat, and a turtle join her, also looking for a new home.  They discuss together what their new home will be like and do have some envy when others are chosen first.<\/p>\n<p>You can guess how the story ends, but the whole thing is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1776574427\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/free_kid_to_good_home.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/free_kid_to_good_home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Kid to Good Home by Hiroshi Ito translated by Cathy Hirano Gecko Press, 2022. First published in Japan in 1995. 109 pages. Review written March 1, 2023, from a library book. Starred Review This is a fun book for beginning but confident readers. I&#8217;m putting it with beginning chapter books, because it&#8217;s about that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginning-chapter-books","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45162,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42273\/revisions\/45162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}