Why can't your child's fairy be a fairy of colour? (That's Not My Fairy - Fiona Watt)

Member Name: nepochan

Product:	That's Not My Fairy - Fiona Watt
Date:	19/07/09 (3 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Your child can touch the different textures

Disadvantages: Depiction of people of colour

Whilst I agree with all of the reviewers' comments, the thing that I did not like about this book was how people or colour are presented. Maybe I'm being too sensitive, I don't know.

The fairies that are brown or have yellow skin tend to be at the start of the book. Your child reads that these are not his/her fairies. Surprise surprise, the fairy that is your child's has a white complexion. Why couldn't your child's fairy be a fairy of colour?

We also have the "That's not my angel" which is a Christmas version. This too has angels who have dark skin at the start of the book and these of course are not your child's angel. Your child's angel is blonde with rosy red cheeks.

Should we be concerned that we are teaching our children with this book that they cannot accept and relate to people who do not have white skin?

Please do forgive me if I am going overboard, but we do not read these books to our child.

Summary: We don't read this to our child