Customer Reviews

Hello Twins

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My twins love this book. The illustrations are colorful and cheery and the text actually fits them well. This is the first book about girl-boy twins that I have encountered, and since people frequently refer to my twins as "The Twins", they were instantly interested in a book called "Hello Twins".

While there is little character development and the text is simplistic, the book does cover a wide range of activities that toddlers can relate to (building towers, knocking them down, staring out the window). It does a good job capturing the everyday activities of toddlers (twin toddlers!). In effect, the book is less about Simon and Charlotte and more about what they do. So, the underlying message and conclusion about them loving each other despite their differences is not really supported throughout the text in a meaningful way.

It is always fun to find a book that applies to your own children. So, I really enjoy it. That said, I do not know if this book would be as interesting for parents of singletons (unless, of course, they were purchasing it for a friend who has twins of their own).

I saw this book in a Parents Magazine at the doctor's office one day and searched for it at bookstores, couldn't find it and then ordered it on Amazon. Needless to say, I was hoping for more! I was very disappointed because there is very little writing and no comic expression. The graphics are so so and all in all the lesson or moral of the story was: "no matter how different we may be, we will always love one another." That is the entire book in a nutshell....I felt it was not worth the price.

Kinetic, bold watercolors by this Welsh author-artist seem more likely to appeal to adults over children. The message--advocating individuality--is a positive one, yet implies that twins must be different in virtually every way (not true). Siblings coexisting together happily is certainly preferable to fighting--and I applaud Ms. Voake's celebration of her relationship with her own twin brother, Simon--but overall, I think I would be more apt to appreciate her artwork in a gallery than in this book.

This is a cute book that my 8 month olds will sit and listen to. But mostly I like it a whole lot. It is about boy/girl twins that are nothing alike, but love each other the way they are. My boy/girl twins already show so many differences that I felt this book could have been written about them.

There aren't too many twin books out there... this is very cute for a boy/girl set of twins. Still looking for a girl/girl story that's decent, but my twins enjoy this book every time.