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Title: Take a second look
Review: While this book follows in the successful footsteps of the other Jamie Lee Curtis/Laura Cornell books, I urge readers to take a second look, and look specifically at the pictures. The words are fine and give us an important message, but the visual message is equally, if not, more important. Children are visual learners. We want to raise successful, confident children of both sexes, so why does Cornell have to give us the boy as a firefighter and a girl as a nurse? My absolute unfavorite is where the children are given medals of honesty and as a best friend, while surrounded by adults wearing their medals. The males are wearing medals of bravery, intelligence, politeness, suaveness, and impatience. The women are wearing medals of adult cute, svelte, and pear-shaped! Come on, where's the gender equity, Jamie?
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