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Title: Children's literature
Review: I really like this author, she wrote a great book about training paraprofessionals, but I fear she has missed the mark with this book. The overall message is a good one, and the teacher in the book is obviously well intentioned; however, I found the illustrations to be, in truth, a bit creepy. I guess it could work as a read aloud with some rich classroom discussion but I would never just put it into my classroom library for kids to discover on their own. The main character with autism seems too stereotypical to me and kids in the class get angry with him which is never a good thing! There are better books on this subject out there.
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