Aya and Papaya Keep Trying

What an adorable book! I loved the illustrations and I think it teaches a very important message to children. Had my niece been in the age demographic of this book, I would've gladly purchased this for her.

The Aya and Papaya series is cute and always has a lesson for young children. This one has the family heading off to the beach. We see the family getting ready for this anticipated outing. When Aya and Papaya build a sandcastle, Aya is excited, until a wave washes it away. Aya gets very upset and her sister steps in to help her understand what happened and that they can try again. Of course the whole family gets in on building a new castle. The illustrations are bright and colourful and my granddaughter always enjoys them. I found the text in this one a bit more difficult for younger children to understand and I had to explain what they were saying to my granddaughter. My grandson kept asking where the mom was, as she was mentioned but we didn't see her and when Aya got upset, it was her sister that helped her not mom, which is what he was expecting. Not a big issue, just something that caused the flow of the story to stop as he kept asking. It gave me the opportunity to talk about older brothers and sisters helping which was nice as he is the oldest of three. Overall, this was another cute entry into this series.

I have read a few books now with Aya and Papaya and this was another good addition to the series. I liked that the focus was on if at first you don't succeed, or things go wrong, pull your socks up and go again. It has a really positive message for young children and I really liked that about the book. The images are lovely and the character Aya is quite like my daughter, Ava so naturally that has become the name of the main character in the book! It is 4 stars from me for this one – highly recommended!

A very cute, easy to follow, and beautifully illustrated story about never giving up! Good for the little ones :)

A wonderful tale about perseverance and never giving up. A really good story with a nice moral. The illustrations were cute too. Fab book.