By Michael Willhoite
I was very happy to find this book on the shelf of the curriculum lab, because I love books that deal with controversial issues and topics that do not normally appear in elementary school classrooms. In terms of the content of the book, I think it had its issues because I think it really oversimplified a very emotion filled idea, but I still liked it because I like to see this issue actually being discussed in the context of children’s literature. I did like, however, how such a taboo topic was normalized and placed in an everyday setting. I liked that the author made a conscious effort to make the main character just like any other boy his age, by talking about how he liked to play baseball, go to camp, etc. There was an honest effort to normalize. I was surprised when reading about the author on the inside of the book that it was written in the 90s. It talked inside the book about how when this was published it was so controversial and appeared on nightline.
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