I’ve been reading this book with my kids for the last couple weeks.
So many times in the book there’s this idea of girls being noisy, always interrupting. Like portraying it as a negative intrinsic characteristic related to gender. Even the uncle coming to build a “room/space” for the boy “to survive” being surrounded by sisters. It is never about gender, having noise and interruptions is having siblings-regardless of gender. Sometimes age affects, sometimes amount of siblings for others, but even those are not an absolute link.
I had to stop several times and chat with my children about this bias, that it doesn’t matter if you’re a “girl or boy” it’s about living in the world with others. That conversation is the only positive part I took from reading this book.
Anyway. Thought of sharing in case it helps someone else!