mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
4.0
A board book about being an Anti-Racist. This is a baby book in that you can read it to your baby and give it to your baby to chew on. But it is clearly for caregivers of babies and not babies themselves. It is a fairly pithy summary of other works by the author. The art is not great but it does support the text. The text is readable if a bit over done. This is a message book and the message does work. 3.5 of 5.
mbondlamberty's review against another edition
5.0
Bought as a gift and read it.
It is a cute board book and excellent to get babies familiar with important issues.
Can't speak to how kids like it though
It is a cute board book and excellent to get babies familiar with important issues.
Can't speak to how kids like it though
melissa_h's review against another edition
5.0
I personally think that the message is such a strong one despite it not maybe being your most typical kids' book. I think it is an important read and one that should be shared.
inumakitoge's review against another edition
4.0
Wonderful book. Only issue I had was that the language didn’t match the intended age group as well as it could have.
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
5.0
After I got this book from library, I needed to take a bus and repack my bag, which led to two different people having to hold this book for some time. They both read it and seemed to be happy about reading it. I was also happy about reading it. Like, it is just a good children's book.
brambresseleers's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
jocelynw's review against another edition
5.0
I see why some reviewers are saying this is not for babies. There is a conflict between what's usually found in the board book format and some of the words Kendi uses. We usually make things extremely pat for babies, and this is not. We don't usually put ideas we think of as for people who can be mostly trusted not to chew pages in a board-book format. But I think that "not-pat" and "big stuff in a baby package" approach is characteristic of Kendi's general heterodoxy and why I feel it's especially useful. This asks more of the reader than to read it - it's an opener for ongoing conversations and explanations that happens to have rhymes and pictures to make it appealing to babies rather than a board book white people can buy to feel like they Solved Racism Today by telling their children it is Bad.
[Don't @ me; I'm too chronically ill to get into a back and forth.]
[Don't @ me; I'm too chronically ill to get into a back and forth.]
danicapage's review against another edition
3.0
I think this would be difficult for children. It s a picture book for parents on how to raise an antiracist baby.
This book (unsurprisingly) is getting either good or bad reviews and not n much in between—and I suspect ideology has a lot to do with it.
This book (unsurprisingly) is getting either good or bad reviews and not n much in between—and I suspect ideology has a lot to do with it.