Leo and the Magic Forest: Exciting and Inspirational Stories for Boys about Courage, Self-Esteem and Inner-Strength

These days, children are less and less likely to pick up a book. This is due to the fact that the modern world is literally stuffed with television and the Internet. Also, this may be due to irresponsible parents, who mistakenly believe that all the necessary knowledge in life a child can learn from TV or the Internet. But we should not forget that it is very important to read right books for boys. At first, it just helps him fall asleep, but at a subconscious level, the child receives the necessary information that will be useful to him in the future. This book plays a big role in the development of every boy. After all, it has a huge impact on the development of his intellect, creative and logical thinking, emotional and social development, psychological and psychophysiological development. By reading this book with my son I noticed that his speech has improved. The book contributes to the formation of the correct moral and aesthetic attitude to everything that happens. Given stories and illustrations acquaint the child with different manifestations of life, with work activity, nature, social experience. Remember that by reading it, you son becomes a fully developed personality. This is just a brilliant book! The message is pleasant and encouraging, and the illustrations are pretty. The book inspires a boy to be adventurous, brave, bright, imaginative, optimistic, and courageous. It also demonstrates bad examples not to follow. It makes a kid ponder about good actions and bad ones. It's a pageturner for my son and he reads the book every day. I liked that Leo with his own example show boys that there is no need to be afraid of. It is better to face fear boldly and overcome it. He gets into interesting adventures and goes through the obstacles happening on his way. Moreover, the quality corresponds to the price. I have ordered several books on Amazon but the quality was disappointing and it was just money down the drain. I like the author’s idea to represent stories for the boys in order to teach them bravery and inner-strength. My son doesn’t let the book out of his hands. Particularly he liked the illustrations and reviews them several times per day. I can’t help being grateful to the author because I see the changes in my son’s behavior and way of thinking. His mindset is different and because more confident. Even his grades went up. Worth reading!

Courage is a quality of human character that is manifested in a variety of situations. The main thing is not the circumstances, but how the boy can admit his mistakes, repent his transgression, not commit against own conscience, despite the fact that others may condemn. Unfortunately, courage is not inherent in everyone. So, we should take care of our children in advance. I am a mother of two boys. They like chalk and cheese. My youngest son is rather coward and he finds it difficult to communicate with his peers. Mostly he plays alone or plays computer games. Once I visited my friend and found her son deeply absorbed in reading a book. I wondered what kind of book it was. My friend told me that these books are recommended by psychologists because they help fight fears, instill in bravery, enhance self-esteem and make right conclusions. I got interested and decided to buy the same book. The book has just knocked my socks. It's supposed to empower and illustrate to children that they can find the inner strength and bravery to cope with difficult task. The stories demonstrate a variety of circumstances in which courage is needed, and it's reassuring to know that we're not the only ones who are afraid of something. Everybody has a fear of doing things they don't want to do. The quality of the book is excellent too. Sufficiently thick paper, good large print, easy to read in low light, eyes do not get tired. A large number of illustrations, children like it. The book makes boys feel more confident and more comfortable because they read and enjoy the pictures and interesting adventures of Leo, main hero. I particularly like author’s idea to teach children through stories. It really works. My son is no longer so coward. He became more sociable, morally and physically strong. Since then, I always find the most interesting books here, both for my children and for the children of our relatives and friends. I gave this book to my seven-year-old nephew, and now they bought it for the son of a friend, since the reviews about this book are only positive. There are a lot of stories, the adventures of main hero are interesting, the boys find can’t get enough with this book. Worth of attention.

My 4 year old grandson lost interest in the stories because there were no coloured illustrations. He is very bright and loves reading but this did not engage him.

I didn’t like this one unfortunately… cheaply printed and kids were bored within the first two pages …

no coloured pictures. two thumbs down.