Review: A Book to Teach Kids to Put Themselves in the Shoes of the Outcast
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2013
This book asks the questions of what you would do if you saw a monster doing a heap of different things?  The first half has things that would make the monster uncomfortable, sad or highlight that it has a disability or can't do something as well as the more able bodied or possibly simply older children.  The second has things that would brighten the monster's day and make it feel that it fits in, happy and things like this.  The use of a monster rather than a specific characteristic of a human like, younger child, child with a disability, different appearance of skin or clothes by being a different race, culture or other minority group broadens who the children being read to will think about when the "lessons" (questions) are being read to them.The book is nicely illustrated with the text on top of the bottom of each image, so the picture and text always appear on the screen together.  The illustrations are quite bright and colourful.  My only criticism is the book could have been formatted so each page takes up the entire screen, at the moment they only take up the top two thirds of the screen of a portable device in portrait mode, or about one third in landscape.