The Love Tank gets all the love from my family! I absolutely, truly loved this book.

One big thing I liked: the idea that there are no good or bad people just people who have full love tanks and empty love tanks. This is a big thing I talk with my 7 year old about. The actions of others can be confusing and make us sad, but many people have empty love tanks and it shows in their actions and words. Like the saying goes, “hurt people hurt people.”

This is a book I will purchase for our family’s home library and will request our local library purchase a copy too. This is definitely one of the best children’s books about emotions I’ve ever read!

Thank you to the publisher for the ARC!

Highly enjoyed this book. I sat down and read this with my son and we were able to connect reading this together. Will definitely be purchasing.

What a beautiful story with equally beautiful illustrations.

I loved that the author expressed that you fill a love tank by loving on others, loving yourself and by receiving love. I think each of those is equally important. I think it was also a great addition to touch on excessive consumerism and emotional eating.

The story ended well with giving examples of how to keep your tank full but I wish it could have dove a little deeper into those examples. I think even as adults, sometimes we have difficulty knowing what that might look like.

I read this book as an ARC from NetGalley. Would I recommend it? Maybe. Would I buy it? No. It is for 4-6 year olds. But there isn’t a whole lot of practical info and learning in it. The premise is to realized other people have love tanks that need filled. And we can fill them. But also? That you can fill yours yourself. But we should still feel others. I think that’s a dangerous thought. I also don’t love the statement “there are no good or bad people” since you’re also trying to teach children to be aware of those around them and that some adults could not be safe.

It talks about people bullying or doing bad things when their love tanks isn’t full. But there are no good or bad people and we should fill others love tanks. But what is that teaching kids? To just love on their bully? To just people please and fill others up even if they are mean to them? To try to please unsafe adults? I get the premise but I feel this book has some big flaws.

Thank you for this ARC of such a beautiful book.
I read this with my 5year old and 9 year old. My 9 year old just had a really hard year and was getting physically bullied at school for months. This book helped us talk a lot about that bully and how he needs some help filling up his love tank.
My 5 year old really enjoyed the book as well and totally loved the concept.
We all enjoyed the colorful graphics and illustrations as well.

This will definitely be one we add to our shelves.

I read The Love Tank with my four year old. We both really enjoyed the educational text and engaging illustrations. The story allowed for us to have a great conversation about filling your love tank and ways to do that. I liked that the authors included people who use food and shopping to fill their tanks. A great book to help young children start to understand their emotions.

The author describes different parts of one's body and labels them as tanks. The brain is a knowledge tank filling up with things one has learned. The food tank is one's stomach which is filled with food when one is feeling empty. The heart is the love tank where one stores the love from others and the love one has for oneself. While one may use the love tank to fill other's love tank, there
is always more to go around. A chatming illustrated book.
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The Love Tank by Andrea Mendoza-Vasconez- 5/5
Children's Fiction

The Love Tank is a book that talks about empathy, kindness and self awareness for children between the ages of 4 to 8. This is an amazing book that gives us the chance to talk about subjects with our children to not only help them understand but a chance to answer any questions.

I enjoyed this story and the conversations it brough up with my 5 and 7 years old.

Thank you Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for the eARC.

I was so excited to read "The Love Tank." We talk a lot about emotions in my home, and this book reminded me of the Children's edition of "How Full is Your Bucket?" The premise is excellent, and I loved how a mother is explaining this to her children through play. The strong imagery of family and friends was wonderful, and the book definitely lives up to the wholesome brand; I will be looking for other titles through them.

I loved the use of color, the shift from black text to pink, purple, or blue, and the flowers and stars meant to display the love we share with others. Visually, this is a lovely, lovely book.

I appreciate the author's knowledge on the topic, as well. She does a really good job of conveying how people with an empty love tank often lash out at others. In theory, this is a fine point, and reminds me of how I often tell my children we don't know what others are going through, and should extend grace. Telling children they can help is especially beneficial when dealing with peers who may be struggling. However, I struggled with the statement, "There are no good people or bad people." I understand the author's reasoning for this statement, and this is normally where I would stop a story, and talk through some things with my children. I think rephrasing this statement or adding an author's note at the end would be beneficial because, tragically, the statement is untrue. There are people out there who want to hurt others purely for the joy of doing so, and that is why as parents we have to talk to our kids about safety and how to protect themselves. Telling a child they just need to help fill that person's love tank can be potentially harmful. I know this is not the author's intention, but felt compelled to leave this note.

The Love Tank by Andrea Mendoza-Vasconez is a lovely, heartwarming children’s book. The metaphor of having a love tank inside you makes it easy for the child to understand situations discussed in the book. The illustrations help the children to imagine how giving and receiving love can affect you and others around you. The book prompted a conversation about emotion/sharing how we feel from my 6 year old who really enjoyed it.

I’d definitely recommend this book to other parents.

I read this book with my 8 year old son. We both loved it! It really does a good job of conveying why empathy, caring, and understanding are important. It also teaches about self awareness and why we all need love. The words and illustrations made it easy for my son to understand the topic. I think this is one that all children and frankly, a lot of adults should definitely read!

I read this with my daughter.

This book displayed a beautiful way of explaining organs in the body as “tanks” that need filling up. It mainly focused on the “love tank”. This book described ways you can help others fill their love tank, how you can fill your own, and how you can treat those who don’t have their love tanks filled.

By using this tank analogy, this book teaches children how to be empathetic when others are empty. Kindness goes a longggg way.

Such a great way to teach compassion to kids! I loved the way the love tank was presented in this book! I enjoyed that it said there was no good or bad people, just people with full or empty love tanks- as a teacher I am always telling my students they aren't good or bad kids, sometimes we just make not great choices and this is perfect to tie in with that! This book is perfect for parents or classroom teachers who want to teach their children/students about love tanks. and being compassionate people.

Being a mama of a 3 year old, I thought this would be a cute book to read together. I thought the concept of the book was a great idea for explaining love and kindness to a child. The book was written well and the illustrations were beautiful, but I thought the premise lacked a bit. I felt like the book taught my child that she is responsible for filling up others’ love tanks and others were responsible for filling up her’s. I don’t agree completely. I felt like it should have focused more on us taking care of ourselves rather than relying on someone else to do that for us, and then teaching the child to care for other people in the same way. I don’t want my child only looking to everyone else to fill up her love tank—I want her to pour into herself and then into others. Our love isn’t wrapped up in others’ opinions and actions, and I want my child to see that she can be happy, kind, and loving regardless of how others treat her.

Such a good book with a good message. We loved reading this book together as a family and my son requested we buy the book to have forever.

This is an absolutely adorable children's book with really nice illustrations. But far more important than the cute pictures is the fact that the message that the book conveys is critically important.

The author has come up with the ingenious idea of describing various parts of the human body as being like tanks requiring regular refills.

Just as a car needs to have its petrol tank filled in order to run well, human beings need to have their various tanks full in order to be happy and well.

So we have the food tank which is our stomach, and the knowledge tank which is our brain. But the love tank, which is our heart, is perhaps the one that we are most likely to forget to refill.

And the consequences of a love tank that is running low are pretty dire!

All this is explained beautifully in the book, in terms that young children will understand. And in the process, a number of lessons regarding kindness, the possible reasons behind bad behaviour, and the importance of self compassion are simply and effectively delivered.

I highly recommend this book for the target age group, and think that it's an excellent resource for the parents and carers of young children. 5 stars from me for this one!

This is a great children’s book for children to understand love, kindness and empathy. It shows that if we give something away it doesn’t mean we are upset or empty but we should be happy that we are in return making someone else happy.

This book was absolutely adorable! I was so approachable and understandable for young children to grasp the concept of empathy and kindness. Will absolutely be purchasing this for my nephew later this summer.

Such a cute book! The illustrations are so vibrant and beautiful. And the message is very good even for adults in this world who need a little reminder to be kind and take care of yourself :)

Thank you for the publisher and Netgally for allowing me to read this book!

We liked this book a lot! My daughter was talking about her love tank immediately after and what she could do to help others fill theirs. It was a great way to show and explain everything, and was also a good reminder for both kids and adults that our true happiness and love doesn't come from things or food or money, but from the love we have around us instead.