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A review by catgirl_luna
Most People by Michael Leannah
hopeful
fast-paced
2.0
A good portion of this book had a decent message going. It had a lot of positivity and showed a great deal of care in the illustrations, showing diversity in family structures and humanity as a whole. Some lines could have been better and represented the diverse cast better, such as better lines to match with those illustrated with disabilities. The part where this book suffered and left a negative feeling in me was a specific passage that was dealing with the "bad people" part of the book, "A person who is frowning and mad, or sad, or mean is like a sour grape in a bunch of sweet grapes...Everyone looks nicer when they smile and laugh."
This hit me as encouraging children not to express any negative emotions, which are healthy to express. This bothered me a lot because healthy expression of these emotions as a child leads to a healthy expression as an adult. Telling children that these emotions would make them a 'bad person' is really detrimental to them and their emotional growth and development. This will give children unnecessary anxiety about being a 'good person' and masking or repressing the negative emotions because they don't want to be seen as a 'bad person'.
This hit me as encouraging children not to express any negative emotions, which are healthy to express. This bothered me a lot because healthy expression of these emotions as a child leads to a healthy expression as an adult. Telling children that these emotions would make them a 'bad person' is really detrimental to them and their emotional growth and development. This will give children unnecessary anxiety about being a 'good person' and masking or repressing the negative emotions because they don't want to be seen as a 'bad person'.