*Review* Have you Seen Mikki Olsen by Alex Macdonald

 

Genre: Children's 2-5 years

Published: January 2, 2024

Pages: 32

This heartwarming story about a missing stuffed animal will amuse and comfort your little one. Read at bedtime for a soothing sendoff.
Penguin has a favorite stuffed animal named Mikki Olsen. Whatever Penguin does, wherever Penguin goes, Mikki is always right there next to him. After a very tiring day, Penguin rushes to bed. When he wakes up, Mikki has vanished! But can you find where he might be?
A calming, reassuring story about lost things hiding right under your nose. Have You Seen Mikki Olsen? teaches your child key skills and helps with their development by:
 

• Providing sensory stimulation with colorful illustrations by fine artist Alex Macdonald.
• Teaching them to quickly find things on a page.
• Introducing arctic climates.
• Demonstrating the shared love of a favorite stuffed animal.
• Reassuring them about missing items.
• Keeping the mind sharp with small details to find on each read.

Cute and colorful, this book is a joyous read for toddlers. Inspire giggles and calm from your child as they gleefully point out the bright pink toy on each page.

I received a copy of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review. 

This was a story about a penguin who acts very much like a young child. You see, he has a favorite toy that goes everywhere with him. Sound familiar? Then one day he loses his toy. The next day he looks everywhere for the toy but just can't find it anywhere that he looks. But then he lays down in the snow and finds where his toy has been all along. 

I liked the messaging in this book, that you shouldn't give up on your goals, and that sometimes things will be in the last place you think to look, or even possibly in a place it never even occurred to you to look. I think those can be very good lessons for young children, especially children with very strong attachments to certain objects that they're not always good about keeping track of. The illustrations were colorful and whimsical. 

Overall I give Have you Seen Mikki Olsen 3.9747 out of 5 stars. - Katie 

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Alex Macdonald has worked in the film industry as a scenic artist and painter for over twenty years (paintingsforfilms.com). He’s a novelist, author-illustrator and fine artist, whose work has been sold by the Connaught Brown gallery in London. He lives in a small house in a hilltop town in Dorset, England, with his son, his son’s girlfriend and a cat called Lionel. His debut picture book Have You Seen Mikki Olsen? was an adorable story about Penguin's search for his missing toy, Mikki Olsen.