May Saves the Day by Laura Gehl is a delightful, children's picture book!

May runs a busing of saving words! When someone has angry bees attacking everyone, she launches a T into the problem and now all the kids are saved. Why? Because now there are only beets! They don't sting like bees do. She continues to save people from the scary and horrifying words that come at them, with quite a comedic twist! We also have a little bit of diversity with Stu, a boy who gets around in a wheelchair, and his handy lasso.

This is a super sweet problem solving book that makes learning how to spell super fun. It's a great way to have fun with words with young children. I highly recommend this for parents and educators. I can see ages 3 and up finding this book super cute.

Four out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Capstone for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review. ( )

This is a very fun picture book about a girl who is NOT a superhero, she’s a business woman. May’s business is saving the day by adding or taking away letters from attacking words and making them easier to tackle. The illustrations are full of diversity. May is a person of color, and Stu (who wants to be her sidekick) is white and in a wheelchair. This story is about neither of those things, but it is lovely to see them represented, even if the authors do not share those characteristics. ( )