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This book makes me incredibly sad. It's such an obvious display of unconscious bias, and it continues to be one of the most prominent board books featuring a kid of color. The images are weird and unattractive. This is NOT the way you want your kid to see themself, especially in the confusing world of being a minority and not knowing where they fit in. The main character has unkempt hair. Makes disgusting faces. She looks weird. I fault the publisher, Houghton Mifflin, for this insensitive material. They paired a very whimsical illustrator with the empowering words from the author, and created complete weirdness from something that could have been beautiful. If they did it with a white character (in a world full of white books), it would have been okay. But really? The one book featuring a kid of color that you choose to boost and this is the result? The icing on the cake is the cop that seems to chase her throughout the book. It doesn't get more ignorant than this. Parents and caretakers of babies of color: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!