Put Away Your Phone! - Softcover

Bryan, Tracy

4.64 out of 5 stars

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ISBN 10: 0692700889 ISBN 13: 9780692700884

Publisher: Tracy Bryan Publishing, 2016

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Meet Emma... She's a little girl that notices that grown-ups are always on their phones. Follow Emma as she counts her way through the zoo and help her shout PUT AWAY YOUR PHONE! Find out how Emma learns that there's a time and place to be on your phone. Don't worry grown-ups...Emma has some compromises to make too, when she realizes that losing her cool doesn't feel so cool!

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About the Author

Tracy Bryan is an award winning author for kids aged 4-12. She writes whimsical non-fiction picture books about emotions, coping skills, mental health and mindfulness. Tracy also likes to tackle social issues and speak directly to her readers about important topics that affect everyone. Tracy hopes to educate, inspire and empower kids and their families with her books. Tracy writes a monthly personal Blog for adults on her website (tracybryan.com) and one for kids aged 6-12 called The Awesomeness Blog. Follow her on Facebook , Twitter , Goodreads & Amazon. To learn more about Tracy or contact her, please email tracy@tracybryan.com or visit her website tracybryan.com.

Review

Midwest Book Review BookwatchJuly 2016, by Diane Donovan Emma is an unusual child: she doesn't like smart phones very much, can't understand why adults are always playing with them, and often wants to admonish those around her to "Put away your phone!" and enjoy the world.

When a visit to the zoo shows people on their phones everywhere, Emma decides to count the offenders - and during her passion to observe and confront others' inattention, she finds herself separated from her parents. What to do?

Put Away Your Phone! lends to parental read-aloud and will appeal to picture book readers with good reading skills as it follows Emma's realistic world and how she comes to view it differently.

It's a fine example of coming to terms with one's environment and it provides engaging color drawings by David Barrow as it moves beyond the challenge of a phone-dominated world and into how a child's viewpoint and righteous indignation can be funneled into more positive methods of handling life.

Kids and adults will find it a delightful read that takes a modern dilemma and views it from a new perspective, offering lessons for cell phone users and nonusers alike that teaches new emotional management skills for tackling life's annoyances and challenges.

Reader's FavoriteMay 2016, by Rosie MalezerPut Away Your Phone! is a children's book written by Tracy Bryan and illustrated by David Barrow. Emma is not a fan of smartphones. It doesn't matter where she goes or what she is doing, it seems to Emma that adults always have their noses in their phones instead of paying attention to Emma or the world around them. When her family goes on an outing to the zoo, Emma again notices that all of the grown-ups are looking at their phones instead of where they are walking. She decides that instead of getting frustrated and angry about it, she will just count the number of people who are looking at their phones. After a while, Emma starts telling each person to put away their phone. She decides that smartphones are really dumbphones because people seem to spend all their time paying attention to their phones. When Emma gets lost at the zoo, she then tries to find somebody who is not using their phone so she can ask for help to find her parents. It takes some time, but finally she finds a member of staff to help her and soon her parents arrive. Emma believes that phones should be used in case of an emergency instead of using them to live your whole life.

Bravo! It is wonderful to read a book that relays a message which so many people want to scream and shout about. These days, it is impossible to walk down the street safely any more without worrying that somebody who is looking at their phone might walk into you, ride their bike into you, or even hit you with their car because of their smartphone! Tracy Bryan's imagination in using a child's frustrations to vent to the world is a genius method of getting that message across. Smartphones seem to have taken over people's lives, replacing their computers, books, internet providers, cameras and more. I support Emma's plight in changing their name to dumbphones. In the event of an emergency, it is near impossible to grab somebody's attention when they are fully absorbed in what is going on inside their phone. I very much enjoyed Put Away Your Phone! and feel that it should not only be read by younger readers, but also by everybody who owns a tablet or smartphone, in the hopes that it might remind them that there is a world outside their phone that misses them.

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