The Boy Who Changed the World (Hardcover) Reviews

I am a homeschooling mom of 4 children and just read The Boy Who Changed the World to everyone. Wow! What a treasury of knowledge and wisdom...not just for the kids, but for adults as well. We just downloaded the teaching curriculum and are starting TODAY! Thank you for writing this much needed message for today's youth.

Nikki Raichart from Gaston, OREGON

This is a wonderful story for children. Mr. Andrews' is a master storyteller and through this book children can learn that they can make a difference in the world. This book carries a thought provoking question to everyone who reads it. I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. MY LIFE COUNTS. What an awesome message to send to our children. We all need to know that our lives count and effect others. The illustrations are very well done and are of good quality. I applaud the illustrator for the work that went into each and every one of them. I have read several of Mr. Andrews' books and have never been disappointed. I do recommend this book to anyone who has children or has contact with children in any way. Our children need to know that their lives count and what decision they make or action they take today can have far reaching effects on not only the people they know today but for generations to come.

Doretta Mills

The Boy Who Changed the World by Andy Andrews can easily be stated as the best. The best for being able to tell children that what they do can and will affect themselves and those around them. The best examples of how one decision can nurture another. The best illustrations to help narrate the story. When you put all of the above mentioned tasks in one book you get this. The perfect tale of how a boy does matter. What he says and thinks can and will help someone, somewhere, sometime. All in all this book should be given to children and be kept in libraries everywhere for easy access. Children should know as young and as soon as possible that they matter.

Cindy Barriga

The Boy Who Changed the World by Andy Andrews is a beautifully illustrated children s book with a powerful message for kids. The message that everything you do matters. Every decision, good or bad, can make a difference in the world you live in. In The Boy Who Changed The World, Andy shows children that their choices matter and that they have the ability to be a person who truly can change the world. Through the characters lives in the book children see how one person can have an impact on another who then goes to have an impact on thousands of others. This little book is the children s version of Andy's book The Butterfly Effect. The pictures are beautifully illustrated and they kept my own children s attention as I read the story to them. My older kids, who are 4 and 5, both enjoyed the story but were still a little skeptical that they could actually change the world. I told my son that he most certainly could be a world changer like the people in the book. I don't think I convinced him yet, but at lest the thought has been planted in his little 5 year old mind. As a parent I would highly recommend this book for any child. It would be a great gift book and one that actually has a great message in it. It even had me thinking of how I could be a world changer. I'll let you know when I figure that out:) In the mean time, check out The Boy Who Changed The World, and inspire your kids while they are still young.

Paige Eavenson

The story begins with a boy named Norman playing in a corn field and how he decided that he will change the world. It evolves from there as we learn about all the people in the past who made little decisions that affected the next generations all the way up to Norman and leading to his invention of super seeds that grow super plants to help feed billions of people around the world. Andy Andrews does a good job showing how even just one small child and their choices and decisions can change the lives of people in the future and around the world. The pictures were beautiful and my boys all enjoyed the story very much. The understood the message and loved to learn a bit more about history that lead up to the super seeds! Great book!

J. Abegglenn

The Boy who Changed the World, adapted from The Butterfly Effect, is a great book for all ages. Illustrated and written with children in mind this priceless story is one I have enjoyed sharing with my own great-niece and nephew and children & grandchildren of friends and co-workers.

Rebecca Sorrell

This is a delightful children's book that tells the story of how one person can make a difference. The book begins with the story of Norman Borlaug, who lived on a farm in Iowa. Norman loved playing hide-and-seek in the cornfields of his family farm. His father had told him how lucky they were to have so much corn because there are some people who didn't have enough food to eat. Norman wondered, "What would it be like to be hungry all the time?" Right then and there, we're told, "Norman decided to change the world." The book continues to tell the stories of Henry Wallace, George Washington Carver, and Moses Carver and how they were all connected to Norman Borlaug in some way. The book does an excellent job at explaining how each child can make a difference in this world. It is beautifully illustrated and has a different butterfly on each page symbolizing the "butterfly effect" which shows how one person can have an effect on another. I read this book to my first grade class and the loved it! I'd recommend this book for children of all ages.

R. Harrison

I just loved "The Boy Who Changed the World" by Andy Andrews as I read it to my 4-year-old daughter. She might not quite be old enough to understand all of the values expressed in the mentoring relationships or the implications of passing on good values to others, but this will be a book I'll continue to read to my kids for years to come. The story opens with a young Norman playing in his family's cornfields. One day, Norman would grow up and use his knowledge of agriculture to save the lives of two billion people. Two billion! Norman changed the world! Or did he have some help? Watch the ripple effect as you see just how Norman changed the world. As some commentary, if nothing else, this book gives us parents an opportunity to look back at who has had an impact on us, and maybe find out from those mentors who had an impact on them, and so on. Then we can tell our collective story to our children so they can remember they can have the same type on the world. A well done story.

Tim McGeary

We used this book for the after-school enhancement program for children of the school that is across the street from our church. It was very effective in enabling us to give each of these children a dream of the impact they may someday make on the world. The book was read aloud over a period of several sessions. The children each voiced dreams of what they aspired to at this age of third and fourth-graders. We plan to use it again in another year.

John Ward

The Boy Who Changed the World by Andy Andrews is a sweet, timely, inspiring children's book. I love that Andy Andrews took his brand of history and storytelling and wove it into such a cool book for kids. It captured my heart with both the warm tone and illustrations. Showing a child at an early age how he or she can have an effect on another person is a priceless, timely lesson. I especially love that this story teaches kids real history in a fun way and weaves a deeper message throughout. A fun, meaningful book.

Toni Birdsong