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librarianryan's review
1.0
This story started out okay. One child wants something another child is playing with. The teacher interrupts the fight and tells kid a to tell kid b some version of you can have it when I’m done. I was fine until we get to the Jojo character. I have two complaints. The first is that Jojo is coloring and when child d comes to color the teacher has Jojo tell kid d that the crayons are “All mine”. Excuse me? What happened to sharing. Plus crayons are a set. Why can’t one child use one crayon, and another a different crayon. And most parents are trying to get their children away from screaming “mine” not running more towards it. The interesting part is that the Not to parents at the back (I really hate this part of the book as well in almost all books currently). This note says “Sharing is simply not a concept that a yo0ung toddler can grasp… yet”. It says that it is until age 3 toddlers should be developing and mastering their “self” identities and only after that can they learn to share. Then for problem two, let's look at the illustrations. Jojo is the only obvious POC child. And its Jojo he gets to tell someone else it's “all mine”. I might have noticed this years ago, but after a parent complaint about a fairy book, I see this now and it infuriates me. Why is the black child the child who is given the less polite term. Or seen as the child not sharing. Hummmmmmmm. Yep, it’s a no for me with this book.
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