This quick and easy biography is a great overview of King Charles' life. It gives enough detail that the reader feels like they know about Charles as a person and not just a royal. The illustrations are simple and colorful, and the text would be appropriate for all readers.

Cute book about King Charles. Not the best in the series but nevertheless a good way to let your little ones know more about the monarch.

I love these short books for kids, and this was well timed to help answer some questions my kids had about the royal family, monarchy and the coronation. Thank you.

This book is so cute! I adore the illustrations and love how the story is told. I wasn't familiar with this series before this book but now I want the whole collection!

There’s something about this book that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Charles has so much history that while this book is trying to cover parts it’s also purposely leaving out lots of things. I do applaud them for their mention of his first bride before his marrying of Camilla And I am happy that wasn’t left out. However, this book tries to make him out to be this well-intentioned, always happy, always loving individual. And for kids, I guess it works. But for this adult reader, it just seems too happy go lucky in a Holly Golightly way to make this a joy to read. I’m glad there’s something about King Charles, but it might be too soon for this book.

This is a beautiful book and well written, i'm so impressed with the illustrations. This book is not only for children. For an adult like me is good to read as well. I'm defenitely interested reading it. I can get good moral values within. It's an informative and fun kind of story.

This was a fantastic book for kids. I loved it, as did my 5 and 7 year old kids. It was simple, concise, just told basic facts that gave a brief description of King Charles' life. We will for sure be reading more "Little People, Big Dreams" books. The illustrations were also great. I highly recommend this book.

King Charles is a great addition to the Little People, Big Dreams series. I was not a fan of Charles, specifically due to his treatment of Diana (having an affair with Camilla while he was married) and his staid personality and treatment of his children, but I have a different perspective after reading this book with two of my grandchildren. The story starts with is birth being announce by the bells of Westminster and follows his life to his mother becoming queen when he was three, his grandmother spending time with him and encouraging his love of art, nature, and music, to being sent to boarding school, college, two marriages, two children and then becoming King. What I never knew about him was his work with environmentalists and encouraging countries and companies to help preserve the planet. I didn't know how active he had been on several charity's behalf or that he set up a charity to help young people fulfill their dreams with his own money he earned in the military. I guess he isn't such a bad guy after all. I liked the illustrations in this book, they added to the story. My grandchildren don't know much about the monarchy (even though we are in the commonwealth) and neither of them were really interested in this book, which I thought was too bad. I think my granddaughter would have been more interested if it had been about a princess. Overall, I really liked this book and think it is a good one to have in libraries and homes. It gives readers a different perspective than what is in the tabloids and newspapers.

I love this series so much. And I love that this one shied away from mentioning scandals he's been involved in. It instead gave a really great story about a little boy who would grow up to be king and what that meant from an early age. Really, really great.

King Charles is another great book in this wonderful series. This series introduces people who shaped the world to children in a kid friendly format.

“King Charles” by Maria, Isabel, Sanchez Vergara with Art by Matt Hunt is a book in the Little People Big Dreams series.

Charles is born into a royal family, and knows that one day he might become king. He studies for the job and becomes Prince of Wales. As Prince of Wales, he developed a passion for the environment and championed climate justice and sustainability. When the queen died in 2022 he became king.

I always love the volumes in the series. I really like the art by Matt hunt. It has a classic children’s book illustration quality to it,

Aww, this book is so cute!

I do love this series and I really enjoyed reading this book about King Charles!

Thank you so much for the opportunity!!

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

King Charles is another great addition to the Little People Big Dreams series, and it is perfect to gift any child or classroom with the coronation nearly upon us.
The book is a short biography for children with fantastic illustrations and information that can be used for small discussions with children as the book is read. The book shows how Charles got inspiration as a young boy and how his grandmother helped to encourage his passions such as music, nature, and art, and how he was sent away to boarding school where his hobbies and interests helped him through his time there and helped shape him into the man he's become. It does touch on his marriages first to Diana and then Camilla. Another fun addition to this fantastic non-fiction series for children.

A great addition to this series ready for the coronation. A look into the life of the future monarch and his life which many don’t know about.
“While his parents were busy with their royal duties, the queen’s mother gave him all the hugs he needed. She also encouraged his love for art, music, and nature.” A prime example of how his upbringing was different from everyone else as from day dot he had to act, walk and talk like the future King. Preparing his whole life for the role he saw his mother handle with grace, care and respect. He didn’t get the same attention from his parents as you and me due to who he was…but he was still very privileged.

Prince Charles going to become King Charles III on 6th May 2023.

Growing up in the 80s I knew of Prince Charles (now King Charles) but knew very little of the actual man. This book was sweet and informative.

These books are amazing for little ones. They introduce non-fiction and biographies without being too overwhelming.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* I've read several books from this series and each one is very cute and informative on a kids level. Had this series come out when i was a kid i would have had it for sure lol

5★
“To get away from the attention, Charles took long walks into the mountains. All alone, surrounded by meadows, trees, and sheep, he was no longer the English-born prince but just a young man falling in love with Wales. He promised himself to always do his best to protect those beautiful landscapes and the whole natural world.”

The man the world has known as the Prince of Wales since 1958, is being crowned Charles III, King of the United Kingdom on May 6, 2023. Here’s a simple story about the intervening years.

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“While his parents were busy with their royal duties, the queen’s mother gave him all the hugs he needed. She also encouraged his love for art, music, and nature.”

I love that this illustrations shows the Queen Mother in her pearls and heels. I don’t know that she wore black ankle boots, but she was still walking steadily on court shoes long after other women have had to adopt flats. Back to Charles.

I recall reading an interview with him many decades ago about what he wanted to be when he was a little boy (or words to that effect). He said that like many boys, he’d thought about being a fireman or something, but then he realised he was kind of stuck. I’ll say he was!

He was sent to boarding school in Scotland when he was eight to make him more independent. Note the tentative wave to the scowling boys.

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“… a boarding school where the future king could rub shoulders with other boys. Far from home, Charles felt quite alone.”

But when he decided to go to college and study history, he broke new ground, becoming the first royal to earn a degree. He spent time studying at a college in Wales, to learn about the Welsh and their language. Unfortunately, protestors marred his welcome. To escape them, he used to walk in the hills through the beautiful Welsh countryside.

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“He promised himself to always do his best to protect those beautiful landscapes and the whole natural world.”

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“Charles was twenty-one when he gave his first speech defending the environment, long before global warming became a well-known issue.”

I urge you to have a look at this very short interview with him in 2020 that harks back to that speech, 50 years earlier. It includes film footage from then and ends with a brief appeal for more work today.
“The Prince of Wales and the Environment, 50 years on”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmEHJxWkvPg

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“After completing his duty serving in the Royal Navy, he used his final pay check to create a charity that helps young people to fulfil their dreams.”

There are a lot of different dreams in that picture, and he has founded and supported countless charities since then.

Meanwhile, back at the ‘office’, it was high time he married, and much of the world seemed to stand still for the Royal Wedding to Diana, the very young woman who would become the Princess to the World.

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“The day he got married, millions of people worldwide watched the ceremony on television. Lady Diana, his bride, looked like a fairy-tale princess.”

The book then jumps to their divorce and her death, leaving Charles and their two sons to grieve.

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“Sadly, Diana died one year after their divorce, leaving a deep hole in the hearts of their two sons, William and Harry, and of the whole world.”

This is followed immediately by Camilla.

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“ When Charles married Camilla, his closest friend for thirty-five years, they bought a farm in Wales, far from any palace. There, he planted trees, talked to his plants, and ate organic food, inspiring others to live in harmony with nature, too.”

He has been working for years to bring business and governments together to protect the environment. When assuming duties on behalf of his ageing mother, Queen Elizabeth II, he travelled and continued representing the UK, becoming king at 73, after she died.

My Goodreads review includes an illustration with this caption:
“From then on, he promised to serve his people with love and respect, just as he had done since he was a child. It had been a long journey for little Charles, and after a lifetime of preparing for the job, he hoped not to let anyone down.”

I’m not a monarchist, but I admire what King Charles III has accomplished, stuck as he was, and what I think of as his quiet, informed persistence. I think he may have inherited the best of two very different parents (not to mention the Queen Mother).

This is #97, another timely addition to the popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series,

Thanks to NetGalley and Frances Lincoln Children’s Books for the copy for review from which I’ve shared a few illustrations. (I like this artist better than some of the others. 😊)

Do check the three minute YouTube interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmEHJxWkvPg

For further reading, the author suggests It's Up to Us: A Children’s Terra Carta for Nature, People and Planet by Christopher Lloyd with a foreword by HRH King Charles III

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for making this available..

I enjoy reading these little stories. I think they’re great for learning people in an east way about inspirational/famous people.

This King Charles book was a nice read and enjoyable. It was a great edition to this series and just in time for his coronation!

In general, I’m a fan of the Little People Big Dreams series, and they’ve proven quite popular with my students/patrons, but this one was slightly disappointing..? Understandably there’s a LOT of material to cover in a life like that of King Charles, and a lot that needs delicacy when describing for a young audience, but it still felt rather inauthentic. I’ll definitely be adding a copy to our collection, though, and look forward to seeing more of the LP, BD collection!

I was kind of intrigued that they would come out with a book for King Charles already for children just since we haven't really seen King Charles but rather just Prince Charles thus that particular story is unraveling. And also as a result I feel the book is wrongly named and that it would be better overall to see him as the Prince since basically he has been such for seventy-three years while having made lots of changes thus proving that you don't have to be a king or worldwide leader to make those changes to occur.

The book seems to also make Charles out to be the misunderstood fellow by showcasing him as a neglected child for his whole childhood since his parents aren't by him as a child, his grandmother is the only one in sight before school and then even when he finally made it to school he was still alone even though it was "practical". And then the book showcases him as finally hitting his more mature years where he slowly starts to find himself and what that self means.

Meanwhile the rest of the book is hurried with quick touchdowns for the major milestones of his seventy-some years. I wanted to know more about why the Welsh were so against Charles but that wasn't acknowledged but instead the book rushed on to the result of that, there was a quick dip for the marriage to Diana and in trying to maintain it kid-friendly it didn't discuss what it meant to share duties with, a very swift dip for the result chaos of their broken marriage and then a bit longer drop for Camilla who just "appeared" as a long-time friend before returning all to young Prince Charles as well as what he may mean to the future.

The illustrations were colored but it seemed in a rather muted tone instead of what children would normally see. The characters were a bit defined but not enough that a child would be able to pick out many of the different faces from each other and the fact that they chose to leave Harry's signature red hair off in the inclusion of his one appearance just was unbelievable.

At the end of the book there are some black-and-white photographs of Charles and from what I have seen out of another book from the series it is meant to be a timeline and a further in-depth bio but one that is missing from this book. As such I find it disappointing since maybe there would have been included a bit more information to clarify what is found in the book.

For adults who want their children to learn more about the upcoming King Charles this is a great start even if the title is a part misleading due to the content within the book. As for an actual in-depth glance, though, readers, especially the older ones, will find the book seriously lacking and flat in its actual presentation of the man who is to be coronated the next King of England.

**I received a free copy of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.**