booksny's Reviews (332)

Sweet children's book

Beautiful writing, slightly abrupt ending 

Weakest stories are at the beginning

Ran into inaccuracies with some of the facts presented

Liked some bits (the Martin Luther king quote on page 101 was powerful, the deaths resulting from racism in black British history packed a punch), didn't fully agree but can see her point/would have liked to hear more about some other bits (the definition of racism as prejudice+power: wish the concept of power was fleshed out more here, and different scenarios explored e.g. would thinking badly of your own ethnicity be internalised racism or internalised prejudice, how does that work when it's a minority being racist -or prejudiced - to another minority e.g. Chinese person yelling slurs at a black person or the other way around) and agreed with but was unsurprised by the rest (i.e. the intersectionality bit didn't feel like anything new - it might have felt newer when the book was first published, or if people unfamiliar with these topics read the books though)

Gorgeous illustrations