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A review by harlando
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
2.0
It's good to be anti-racist, but I don't understand why this got the reader's choice award last year.
There isn't anything wrong with the message. It's just not a very good children's book. My kids are a little too old to really test it, but I think they would have lost interest. It's a list of nine actions to take to build a more just society. It's done in rhyme, but the rhymes are weak and strained in places. Kids don't really like long lists (and if you are three, nine things is a pretty long list), the rhyming doesn't flow, and there isn't a narrative tying the book together. I couldn't think of a way one could punch up the reading to make it fun.
The art is bright and colorful, but not very interesting. The illustration that sticks in my mind is a bunch of people sitting on a couch. They aren't all quite that bad.
All of my kids wanted to read 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?' about a million times. I can't see any kids asking to read this more than once.
There isn't anything wrong with the message. It's just not a very good children's book. My kids are a little too old to really test it, but I think they would have lost interest. It's a list of nine actions to take to build a more just society. It's done in rhyme, but the rhymes are weak and strained in places. Kids don't really like long lists (and if you are three, nine things is a pretty long list), the rhyming doesn't flow, and there isn't a narrative tying the book together. I couldn't think of a way one could punch up the reading to make it fun.
The art is bright and colorful, but not very interesting. The illustration that sticks in my mind is a bunch of people sitting on a couch. They aren't all quite that bad.
All of my kids wanted to read 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?' about a million times. I can't see any kids asking to read this more than once.