Little Feminist Book Club is a monthly book subscription box for kids ages newborn to nine years old. Each month you will receive one to two books to help diversify your bookshelf. Plus, you will also receive hands-on activities and tools to help your book come to life. Subscriptions are offered for ages 0-3, 3-7, and 7-9. From Little Feminist:
Only 31% of children's books feature a female character, and only 13% feature a person of color.
This review is of the Book Club for ages 0-3 years.
This box was sent to us at no cost to review. (Check out the review process post to learn more about how we review boxes.)
About Little Feminist Book Club
The Subscription Box: Little Feminist Book Club
The Cost: $23.75 a month + free shipping. Save with longer subscriptions.
The Products: At least one book (sometimes more) and hands-on activities and tools to help your book come to life.
Ships to: The U.S. for free and worldwide for varying rates.
Little Feminist Book Club Ages 0-3 October 2020 Review
I received this welcome sheet introducing this month's books. They go over a few details about the books and how you can share your thoughts with them after reading the book with your little ones! This month's books address body awareness and diversity in abilities and all the different ways we all get around, move, and rest!
On the back of the welcome page is this month's activity which is "Celebrate Strengths". Here they suggest making "Rest & Relax" part of a child's bedtime routine to help them wind down and offering a "thank you" to various body parts. For example, "Thank you, toes, for helping me dance today!" I love this.
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Rest & Relax by Whitney Stewart & Rocio Alejandro - Retail value: $7.99
This book walks you and your child through a body awareness exercise, squeezing and tightening different body parts like arms, legs, toes, and then releasing and relaxing them to let them rest. I love this. I try to do this kind of thing when I feel restless trying to get to sleep and I know it has helped me. Making it in the form of a bedtime book is a great idea.
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We Are Little Feminists On-the-Go - Retail value: $8
This book is an original from Little Feminists and it's all about mobility and abilities. The book shows pictures of lots of different ways to get around, like wheelchairs, seeing-eye dogs, prosthetics, walkers, crutches, and more. I really like how all the images are so happy and positive, and that this book makes room for questions from little minds. I think this is important so that you have a space for safe discussion and relaxed answers instead of having children seem surprised or confused when meeting someone who is differently-abled, and so that kids who are as such see kids like themselves being celebrated!
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Discussion Question Cards
Each book comes with a discussion question card that gives you questions you can ask your little reader about the books. These cards are great because they continue the discussion from lessons that we learned in the book or things we have seen in the stories. It also allows your little one to really think and for you to learn a bit more about what they might be thinking at the time. This month's questions ask things like, "toes can feel tingly, tight, warm. How do your toes feel?" (and similar questions about each body part you go through in the Rest & Relax book), and "can you find all the different wheels in the book?" and "Everybody needs help doing things. People who hurt their back can get help with wheelchairs. People who are shorter can get help with stools. What tools help make things easier for you?" I'm impressed with the thoughtfulness behind each question.
Verdict: This is my third shipment from Little Feminist Book Club! So far I think it's a very exciting book subscription. My kids are 5, 3, and 1, and they all love it when we read books together. I appreciate that Little Feminist focuses on showing diversity while also highlighting people who don't all look like my children, that my kids might not see or meet regularly (especially, unfortunately, at this isolated point in time in 2020). I think that the price might seem a bit high for two board books, but I personally see value in giving my kids a special literary treat each month, and also in having Little Feminist do the work to source diverse and empowering books for us.
To Wrap Up:
Can you still get this box if you sign up today? Yes, you should get their October box if you order before the last week of October. From Little Feminist:
Once you purchase a book subscription your first box will be shipped within a week. From then on, your book box will be sent the first week of every month.
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