Holly Scott-Gardner

I used to think there would be a magical cure for my blindness. I don’t remember this, but my mother assures me it’s true.

Although the author got some of the details about blindness wrong, she seems very committed to diversity, and I enjoyed this book a lot.

It felt like the author used Moritz’s echolocation as a way of avoiding a realistic portrayal of blindness; too many tired blindness tropes popped up throughout the book for me to love and champion it the way others have.

Although Laureth didn’t represent me as a blind person, Sedgwick didn’t feed off tropes and stereotypes; instead, he met with many young blind people and found out about their lives.

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The only way I can describe Take a Good Look by Jacqueline Wilson is a book designed to educate young children about visual impairment gone horribly wrong.