Emily Neilson
Auteur van Can I Give You a Squish?
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Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
This is a great book for teaching young children about personal space/boundaries and how not everyone is comfortable with being touched in certain ways. The main character goes around "squishing" aka hugging many different fish, but when he does it to the puffer fish, he doesn't like it. Him and his friends come up with a different way to show puffer fish that he likes him, a fist bump. This was a cute and simple story but did a great job of portraying this message.
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- 2
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- 102
- Populariteit
- #187,251
- Waardering
- 4.5
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- 7
- ISBNs
- 11
The book is filled with colorful illustrations. The details and emotional expressions are easy to understand for little ones. My favorite part of this book is the underlying message. It talks about consent in a easy, light hearted way that children understand. When the merboy gives a puffer a hug, the puffer freaks out. The merboy feels bad and just wanted to be friendly, so with the help of friends he figures out an alternative. He begins asking the puffer and others how they like to be greeted. The books opens provides and easy opening for conversations about personal space, consent, how others feel when we make certain choices and vice versa. It is a great book. It has become one of my favorites that i like to read in the preschool classrooms. After reading, we as a group practice different ways we can greet others.… (meer)