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Title: Totally sexist!
Review: I love the concept of this book (the two stories colliding mid-book) but the message totally offends me as a woman and as a mother of a young son and a baby girl. While the editorial review claims that both kids are afraid, that's not the message that comes through most loudly in the book. The little boy may be a bit afraid of the dark but his blanket is a magic carpet that takes him on several adventures, even if he does use it to escape the scary "polar bear" at the end of his story. Meanwhile, the little girl is explicitly afraid of everything and the blanket becomes a polar bear that protects her from everything. And while I don't mind the idea of a blanket offering a feeling of security, I do mind, very much, the idea that the boy uses his blanket to have bold adventures while the little girl hides from the world behind her blanket. And it's such a shame, because this book would be wonderful without that double standard.
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