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Noi
by Elisa Mazzoli
Age Range: 6-8
Noi was included in the ‘Reading the Way’: Inclusive Books from Around the World Research (2015). The book is not available in English but is referred to as Us throughout the RtW Research project. (Full report in the Education Zone of this website)
OIW were pleased to call in this title (discovered it at the Bologna Book Fair 2014) and to find a book that featured a topic almost completely absent from young children’s literature – that of facial disfigurement.
Whilst it carries an effective message about human tendencies to judge others on appearance and quickly draw false conclusions, there were questions about whether the book places excessive emphasis on the negative. Nevertheless, OIW considered there to be some valuable learning points to be drawn from Noi. Particularly interesting is the way in which it successfully avoids some common pitfalls (both through the text and artwork) such as not depicting the disabled character as only finding friendship only with another 'outsider' but instead showing a more gradual change and growing friendships.