This is SUCH a cute book! I feel like there a loads of advice books for teens heading off to college, but this one is for those awesome 8 year olds in your life!
It is filled with the bizarre ( How to make booger NOT in your nose...it's with rubber cement, i know cause i did it when I was 8), to the helpful (when you should call 911, what to do if you need attention, how to identfiy animal prints in your yard) to the handy ( how to find out if you have superpowers, what to do if you are REALLY Shy, when to wash your hands, etc.).

I think is this a funny and graphically intense book tat will catch any kid's eye and hopefully help an 8 year old in your life.

I love that this book is gender neutral (but it doesn't include non binary children). It's future job quiz starts with are you a boy or girl and both lead to it doesn't make a difference. This is for all those conversations you mean to have with your child but sometimes feel like are too small or too big. It also doesn't take itself too serious. It tells kids why they shouldn't lie but it offers popsicle recipes.

As a teacher of 8 year olds, and a parent of a 7 year old, I think this book is right on the nose. Combining humor and wisdom with the voice that is more like an older sibling than a parent, kids will enjoy the taboo topics like farting and making boogers, while some truly helpful themes of friendship and honesty are woven in. The formatting of the e-ARC made it very difficult to read a lot of it, but I enjoyed what I could read enough that I will likely be adding this book to my classroom library.

This book is hilarious and every 8-year-old deserves a copy! Readers learn how to make boogers without using their nose, fart in public, make the world’s best fort, and much more. Some of these sections were so funny that I literally laughed out loud. The book also includes more serious topics like how to try new foods, tell the truth, make new friends, and what you should do if you make a mistake. I cannot wait to purchase a copy for our library and give out as gifts for every 8-year-old I know.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This book wasn't really for us but we read through it to the end. We thought it was a book of actual advice for 8 year olds but it was a book of prankish and silly things for kids to do and get up to. My daughter wasn't really keen on it but did giggle at afew pages as we went through it.

I'm actually quite shocked by this book... it has totally fallen between two different categories - a book which is serious and tackles issues such as keeping privates private and a book that is funny and talks about silly things like making boogers. The fact that it straddles two categories completely is incredibly worrying - how can you have a book which broaches some incredibly important conversations which can help stop a child from being abused, mixed up with chapters about making boogers?! Why hasn't the editor picked up on this?

I also think the author has missed the target age group of this book. Some of the things are just so silly that they'd appeal more to a 5-year-old not an 8 year-old... my boy is 8 and has been able to make himself a sandwich since he was tiny. He's also past the stage of thinking anything about body parts is hilarious... but when it got to the serious sections, he was at first giggling and thinking they were silly and couldn't get in the right headspace to appreciate the importance of them.

This book would be better if it had been seriously edited and kept as a 'silly book' and not had an age group on it, so something like 'Silly things you need to know whilst you are in infant school' or something more broad like that. Perhaps have a second book about the serious things you sohuld know...

It's a shame because it could have been so much better and the author does have some good - if not totally age-appropriate- ideas which could have been expanded upon and turned into a book which stood out and shone.

Two stars because the author has got potential, but the book itself falls short.

Everything You Need to Know When You Are 8 is a mish-mash of activities, ideas, and information that was selected with the help of the author's child (according to the introduction). While some things included in the book would appeal to some children, the book comes across as too targeted to one specific child with specific interests. It lacks a general appeal to a wide range of young readers. I can certainly see some children liking it but that interest will be short lived.

Thank you NetGalley and ABRAMS Kids for the opportunity to read an advance reading copy.

I thought this book was serious advice for 8 year-olds. It is not. The very first section is "How to make boogers without using your nose" and gives instructions for how to use rubber cement to prank people with giant blobs you leave places. Bodily practices and pranks (especially on your parents) feature highly in this book. There are occasionally serious entries like who counts as a stranger and who can see your privates but these are incomplete and won't properly protect kids. I would have hated this book at 8 and my 8 year-old daughter would just call it gross and stupid. She also says that you can do things like make a sandwich at 9 (she has a follow up book). What 8 year old can't make a sandwich yet???? Not my cup of tea.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

I gave this to my 8 year old daughter to read. But she didnt like it and found it boring! Maybe it just isn't her kind of book.

Great, fun, funny advice - I know my kiddo, and all 8 year olds that I now have a go-to gift for, will get a kick out of the whimsical, prankish and gross stuff mentioned. I’m excited to see some of the same tips that I would and do give my child appear on the page - I guess we're all in this together: all parents want their kids to have good manners, bathe, and be kind. Maybe hearing it from a disembodied narrator in a cool graphic format will make it stick!

This is a humorous book for younger kids looking to be validated that they are no longer "little" as they approach age 8. There are a few serious and helpful chapters that will be appreciated by adults and provide a springboard to important conversations but it will be hard for adults and librarians to give this book credibility (and non-fiction "self-help" status) with serious topics like "private parts" a few chapters away from a section dedicated to "buggers" and "where to hunt for fairies or gnomes". Great idea and many chapters are relevant but this falls short of reaching nonfiction status. Readers will need to be strong in order to tackle some of the vocabulary and ideas independently.