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A review by erinmp
17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore by Jenny Offill
3.0
A little girl and her list of seventeen things that she's not allowed to do anymore. Things such as: use the stapler because she stapled her brother's hair to the pillow; pretend that her mother is a waitress because she tried to order something else for dinner; write reports about beavers because she wrote that instead of the required report on George Washington. At the end she does find one thing that she is allowed to do.
I'm really conflicted about this--one the one hand, I really liked the illustrations and the story made me laugh out loud. But I'm 31. I'm afraid that children might get some "ideas" from this book. The most troublesome thing, though, is at the end, she blatantly lies and tells her mother that she's sorry. Now, all little kids do that--apologizing because they have to, despite the fact that they are anything but sorry. But to have this funny, cute little girl do it in the book seems to set a bad example to me.
I'm really conflicted about this--one the one hand, I really liked the illustrations and the story made me laugh out loud. But I'm 31. I'm afraid that children might get some "ideas" from this book. The most troublesome thing, though, is at the end, she blatantly lies and tells her mother that she's sorry. Now, all little kids do that--apologizing because they have to, despite the fact that they are anything but sorry. But to have this funny, cute little girl do it in the book seems to set a bad example to me.