My Mother's Secret Life by Rebecca Emberley

This book is about a young girl who thinks that all her mom does is clean the house and take care of her. When the young girl takes a nap, she dreams about a circus and she is surprised when it is her mother that is swinging above the crowd, hanging by her heels.

This book caught me by surprise; I didn't think that it would all be a dream. I thought that the young girl's mom really would have a secret life. I didn't like how the girl's dream kept building up and then she saw her mom and woke up and that was the end. I felt like there should have been more to the story. There was a lot of suspense as to what her mother's secret life was but as soon as the reader found out what it was, the book ended.

The illustrations in this book are quite interesting and very creative. It looks like Emberley used art supplies such as construction paper, feathers, glitter, and paint to make the pictures and then she photographed them to put in the book. Kids could use this book as inspiration for their own art projects. The illustrations may not be as detailed as they could be and this is because of the limited work that one can do with the supplied art materials but I still think kids will love the pictures because they are different.

This is a good book to share with children ages Pre-K -1st grade and it is an easy book for beginner readers.