So recently I came across an amazingly unique kind of book for kids i.e Miss Never Pleased by Ayesha Marafani but in a very good way. Now the reason why I am saying it unique is that the story depicts emotional transformation of a child (as she grows) and her realization of the basic human feelings like empathy, care and humility that makes it even more interesting to read for kids!
As I was reading the book with my 10 year old, some incidents of the book made us smile, some made us feel pity with the protagonist i.e Habiba and some made us angry too (because she was too proud at times!). The storybook is about a super proud girl who is always hurting others with her irony inundated remarks but if you study the character deeply, she is a little silly girl who is living in her own bubble that has been created by her elders and also by herself. There is a message within it too that we, the elders sometimes in order to make our children perfect make them so idealistic that they consider every situation from their own point of view.
The beauty about this book is that it narrates how silliness transforms into arrogance and snooty behaviour.She stays the same unless she learns a lesson!
This book also tells us that bullying and belittling doesn't go a long way!
And yes another point this book has beautifully depicted is the urge for parents to always make their kids an emblem of perfection and in doing so, they deprive the children of exploring the world on their own and tasting the fruit of both success and failure and that's why when kids grow up, they blame their parents for not letting them come out off their bubble and this is what Habiba does too in the book!
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