So as I read more and more controversial books I realized that Babette Cole really likes to read them. Some of them I have thought to be inappropriate and others not. This one I was on the fence at some points.When hearing about this book in class I thought that it was cute and funny and a great way to talk about puberty and changing bodies. As I looked at it myself I felt a little different about it. The whole time I felt like it was showing child porn and I felt just gross for even looking at the pictures. I know that they were real photographs, I just felt like it was really weird at times.
Like I said earlier, I still feel like it is a really good topic for kids to know about and that everyone goes through it. I just felt like some of the pictures went a little over what they should have. Especially, this is supposed to be for 1st grade and older. I don't know if I would ever want my first grader to look at this. I don't know how I would change the book at all and maybe if I had to make a book like that, I would have to do it in the same way. But when reading it I just felt really weird about the pictures and I don't think that many parents would want this book to be in their child's school library.
I felt the same way! When we talked about the book in class I thought it would be a great way to address this difficult topic to cover in class. But when I looked at it up close and really saw the illustrations I was taken back. I think it is a cute idea and in a way makes light of the process of puberty, but I think that it could be taught in a better way. I would not use this book in my classroom.
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