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From Booklist

June 1, 2024
Grades K-2 The Little People, Big Dreams series (4 new titles) reliably takes well-known figures and converts their stories to palatable picture-book biographies. The latest titles in the series move from sports to the spotlight, with cute illustrations that navigate the come-up of a batch of modern icons. Current household name and pop star Taylor Swift's volume follows, mentioning her early passions for country music and performing. She became the youngest person to write and perform a number-one country song, and her long list of accolades followed: Grammy wins, genre-jumping writing, directorial debut, and commitment to her fan base. Each work concludes with a time-line of photographs featuring great moments of each figure's life, as well as a more adult-oriented biographical paragraph. The series continues on its easy success of translating notable figures' experiences into digestible stories.

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From Kirkus

May 15, 2024
The publisher's long-running biographical series takes on megastar Taylor Swift. S�nchez Vegara breathlessly starts Swift out as a girl at home who "believed in unicorns and fairy tales" as well as "the power of songs to tell stories and change the world." The author then traces her subject's enchanted career from first demo recordings at age 11 to the 2022 announcement of the Eras tour. Though her early devotion to country music made her a loner at school, she was able to shake it off, winning four Grammys by the time she turned 20. Readers may find the text frustratingly vague or confusing; S�nchez Vegara notes that Swift recorded her first album for a record label "after being spotted" at a gig (by whom?). Likewise, in the backmatter, the author states that after "her masters were sold without her permission, Taylor decided to take back ownership of her art"--some parental explanation may be necessary here, too. S�nchez Vegara covers familiar ground; confirmed Swifties will discover little new here, and even young children who don't recognize Swift will never, ever read this book more than once. Figures in Fallberg's star-bejeweled, often lilac-tinted scenes are racially diverse; one young listener in the final campfire singalong uses a wheelchair, and another wears an eye patch. A thinner-than-thin profile, wrapped in lavender haze and sweeter than fiction. (Picture-book biography. 6-8)

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