Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: laughing at children

The coldness of the cover powerfully conveys the contents. He is a sensitive artist but an insensitive writer.Readers aren't laughing with the child. They are laughing at the child. This child hears so many things incorrectly that this goes beyond the normal level. All children make some of these mistakes. This child makes too many of them. The child could easily have a hearing handicap or a language handicap.The illustrator does a really powerful job of making us feel the sadness, isolation, and confusion of the child but the text shows no sensitivity to the child's feelings. The book could help the child learn to laugh at her mistakes but it just encourages other children and adults to laugh at the child who feels isolated and misunderstood.The art work is makes readers feel what the child feels. I wish the text did.