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Reviewed by Rosie Malezer for Readers' Favorite
The Girl Who Said Sorry is a book about gender identity in today’s society, written by Hayoung Yim and illustrated by Marta M. Forever criticized for her clothing, her body shape, her voice, her mannerisms, being too proud when winning, and being given so much contradictory advice about how she should act in order to be herself, a young girl finally puts her foot down and decides that she is tired of being sorry for not fitting into everybody else’s ideal persona.
While reading Hayoung Yim’s tale, The Girl Who Said Sorry, I could not help but feel sympathy for a young girl who was trying so hard to please everybody else except herself. In today’s society, people around you expect you to fit into their perfect ideal, but when so many people expect you to live up to their standards, rather than reaching for your own goals and learning what is right, life becomes confusing for many. I could not help but cheer when the young girl finally stopped apologizing to the people around her for letting them down when she had nothing to apologize for. The only way to mature and learn is to make mistakes and grow from them while using your own common sense and instinct to tell you what is right.
I was very much impressed by the message which The Girl Who Said Sorry conveyed, and do not hesitate in recommending it to all young readers aged 5-12, so that they can learn to grow into their own skin, while also learning that it is okay to be wrong now and again. We are all individual people and need to be ourselves, while being the very best that we can be at all times. There is never any need to apologize for being ourselves.
