This is a wonderful amalgam of things that 'it's okay to be', and interspersed amongst the quite serious things: 'it's okay to need some help; it's okay to be a different colour; it's okay to have wheels; it's okay to be adopted; it's okay to say NO to bad things', etc., there are some decidedly light-hearted ideas: 'it's okay to eat macaroni and cheese in the bathtub; it's okay to have a pet worm, etc. The effect of this pooling of the serious and the silly has the advantage of helping the child laugh as well as helping him or her cope with being different in some more serious way. The wonderful big, simple pictures, with solid-colour backgrounds and large characters are fun and spot-on at the same time. This will be very useful in schools as well as at home.