I received Cute Foods Around the World from Cupkin as an ARC, but it has been quite some time. I took it with the family on a road trip in the summer to check it out, but it has been quite some time since then, as well. Better late than never? Hopefully for the Creative Spark books illustrated by Becky Cas (and all the other Cupkin books).

(Upon very shallow research, I learned that Cupkin is a children’s travel cup brand, which makes sense. The sticker books, then, are a sort of accessory for travel with their cups. And if you want to sticker up your cup…)

I am too old for children’s’ sticker book and so are my kids (19 and 16 on this road trip). But we’re also not. Because if you want to do stickers in a sticker book to relax or be creative and you’re 99, then that’s just fine. You’re not hurting anyone. And there is something soothing about a sticker book like this. Pages on pages of cutesy, blank scenes with dozens of stickers on a sheet matched to each, you can move the stickers around later if you want. In that sense, this reminded me of Colorforms (which I would happily still do, as well). Honestly, sitting in the car as the road slid under concentrating on where I wanted to put the frog and his bowl of dumplings was actually very relaxing. I would recommend it. And we spent some time discussing the different countries and their food.

This series is a winner. It’s exactly the kind of thing I would have bought for my kids and will buy for my niece in a couple years. Cute. Ample stickers. Good quality. Different themes across the series. (I requested Foods Around the World because I’m me, but there is also Animal, Princess, All Around Town, Cars and Planes, Camping, Outer Space, Bugs, Dinosaurs, Llamas, Cats, Penguins, Fairies, Sports, Spooky Village, Holly Jolly Holiday, Axolotl, Mermaids, Museum, Snow Day, Safari, Pets, Farmers Market, and more. In the Cute series, there are Bunnies, Together with You, Pandas, Koalas, Going on a Trip, Foods Around Town, Winter Wonderland, and more.) Three of the books are illustrated by Becky Cas, an illustrator out of Switzerland who illustrated the one we got.

So, all the things I said above are true for kids, too. Most kids will enjoy a sticker book and it’ll be some screen-less quiet time, as well. Personally, I don’t trust kids in the back of the car with stickers (unless they have proven themselves trained in this area), but you do your kids. As I mentioned, there’s a book for just about any little kid and so many little kids would enjoy setting a mermaid scene or dinosaur tableau. And these books are spiral bound (so that they sit flat) and board book-y (without being too thick, they can be used without a table, like on a lap).

Get your Life of Cute Bunnies for Easter, and you’ll thank yourself. Either for the great gift you’ll be giving to a little one who will love it, or for the hour’s peace you carved out for yourself to make a zoo scene with adorable bunny stickers. You can get Cupkin books from their WEBSITE or Amazon.