Review: Everybody loves a winner....but this book isn't one.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2014
This was a poorly written book on so many different levels.First, the whole story line is skewed. Stutty (couldn't she think of a kinder, more original name???), is a sweet, brave boy who originally has no friends. Once he uses his size to intimidate a bully, he wins the friendship of the girl who was was being bullied. Out bully a bully, that's a good message.Second, Stutty continues to be teased until his athletic abilities are discovered. Once he wins a basketball game, all of his classmates like him. "Everybody loves a winner, even if he stutters." Is literally the written message of this book. Maybe that shouldn't bother me so much, but that isn't message I want to read to my kids. I would rather a book be about doing your whether you win or lose and a child being loved for who he/she is rather than what they are capable of on the court.Third, the way the author portrayed the stutter itself, i.e. tttthhhhiiiisss iiiisss nnnnooootttttt hhhhooowwww aaaaa sssttttuuuttttteeerrrr sssoooouuunnnnddddsssss. That's lazy and aurally incorrect. I'm deleting this book.