Look, it's me!

Life would be dull if we were all the same

A young tween girl stands against a light blue wall facing the camera. She is wearing a white T-shirt with the denim straps of her overalls showing. Her brunette hair falls loosely to her shoulders as she smiles warmly.

Review by: Alyssia

Gold coloured stars for the rating - 5 stars.
A young tween girl stands against a light blue wall facing the camera. She is wearing a white T-shirt with the denim straps of her overalls showing. Her brunette hair falls loosely to her shoulders as she smiles warmly.

Review by:
Alyssia

Gold coloured stars for the rating - 5 stars.
This cover depicts a young boy pushing a wheelbarrow full of flowers. He is wearing a greenish shirt and blue jeans, with his hair in an undercut style. The background of the image is mostly white, but there are also some colourful elements over the title text. Text on the cover includes the title, authors and tagline "Be different, be brave, be you".

Just Ask

By Sonia Sotomayor

Life would be dull if we were all the same

The book is about children’s differences with disabilities and how that makes you special.

In the story, there are multiple children with different disabilities, and they each share about their experience and educate the reader about their disability.

I liked that the author talked about multiple disabilities without degrading them. I also liked how you got to learn about different disabilities in a fun and simple way.

I really liked the illustrations, I found them to be very beautiful. The illustrator uses a garden in the book to represent diversity. By the use of different plants in a garden, these different plants coming together are what make the whole garden beautiful. This is a metaphor for all people, with or without disabilities, coming together making the world a beautiful place.

I didn’t dislike anything in this book. It was worded perfectly. The story was empowering and diverse and, overall, it was just a fun and lovely book.

The book’s message is about helping children with disabilities understand that they are all unique and wonderful, and that life would be dull if we were all the same. It also teaches children without disabilities what disabilities are, and to understand that everyone is deserving of acceptance. 

The main message of the book is to children without disability – visible or invisible -, that if you do not understand, or are curious about, a person’s disability then just ask!

I think the best audiences would be from year two to year four.