Little Parachutes cannot accept your Dedicated Review Service request until all of the following procedures have taken place:
- Full payment has been made by you
- We have received your confirmation of acceptance of this Agreement (by submitting the Dedicated Review Service request form, you are acknowledging that you have read and have accepted this agreement).
- We have received a (digital or printed) copy of the book you wish to have reviewed
Once all of the above have taken place, the Little Parachutes team will notify you by email to let you know if your Dedicated Review Service request has been accepted or rejected.
Cancellations and Refunds
Little Parachutes may refuse your request for a Dedicated Review any reason. If your request is rejected, we will give you a full refund of the fee you paid for the Service. As soon as this refund has been processed, we will no longer be under any obligation to provide you with a review or any other service. Any printed review copies of books will not be returned.
Once Little Parachutes has notified you that your review request has been accepted, you cannot cancel this Agreement.
Reproducing Reviews
Little Parachutes has exclusive ownership of the Review and owns all intellectual property rights. Little Parachutes grants you the right to reproduce the Review, partially or wholly, for marketing or promotional purposes only. When quoting from the review, the following rules must be followed:
- Any words removed from a quote must be replaced with ellipses.
- No words may be added to the review under any circumstances, and the integrity of the review must remain unaltered.
- All excepts must be attributed to Little Parachutes, in the following format:
“An entertaining story, beautifully illustrated, with a clear message about embracing diversity.”— LittleParachutes.com
Customer Acknowledgements
By accepting this Agreement, you accept the following:
- Little Parachutes can appoint any person on their review team to write your review. Customers cannot request a specific person.
- Our review team are trained to be accurate, honest and impartial, however, reviews are subjective, and the Reviewer’s opinions may not align with your own. While we generally write in a positive style, reviews are not always favourable.
- It is often important for our readers to be provided with a synopsis of the book from start to finish (so that they can gauge how suitable a book is for their particular situation). With this in mind, we sometimes include a description of the conclusion of the book.
- Each picture book will be evaluated on: literary value (focussing in particular on how helpful/beneficial the book is to young children) quality of illustration and text and the interplay between the two, reader engagement, plot development and messages conveyed, and its suitability for its intended audience. Our review method aims to uncover all helpful messages found within the book under the headings of Acknowledgement, Guidance and Hope & Inspiration. Our review method is completely unique – to give you an idea of what to expect, this is an example of a typical Little Parachutes review.
- We reserve the right to include affiliate links to the picture book (including, but not limited to, Amazon) on published reviews page at Littleparachutes.com
- Each individual book review page featuring a book that has been requested using our Dedicated Review Service will be marked with a ‘Dedicated Review’ link, allowing users to be able to identify which reviews have been provided for a fee.
- Little Parachutes will not publish your review to LittleParachutes.com until you’ve given us the go-ahead. Customers will be given the opportunity to privately read their review when it is completed. If you decide to keep your review private, we will (of course) honour this decision and it will not be made available to the public.