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Reviewed by Ashley Tetzlaff for Readers' Favorite
The Way We Move by Terri Kelley is a sweet book that does a wonderful job conveying an important concept. It will catch the hearts of those who “move differently” or know of those who do. The main character falls and skins his knees. Even though it is not as bad as missing a limb, he still limps and that makes kids look at him weird. Drawing on his firsthand experience and memories of meeting handicapped kids, the boy realizes that everyone is the same inside – they want to play, make friends, and have fun – even if they move differently on the outside.
I appreciate how Terri Kelley sensitively and accurately depicts injured/handicapped people in her book The Way We Move. She shows how they have feelings, thoughts, desires, and dreams just like the rest of us. And they might have a hard time with the awkward way people act around them. I think this is important to communicate to children, who are more likely than others to stare at or treat injured people differently. It is important for us adults to think about as well. How do you treat people the same when there is a way in which you are not the same? I think Kelley does a good job showing the thoughts and feelings on both sides – those “normal” and those “different.” The pictures are very appealing and a pleasure to look at. Sometimes the rhyme scheme seems a bit forced and amateurish to me, but the word choice as a whole is excellent and conveys the idea.
