People who know me may think it is unusual that I was interested in reading this book, but a review in the NY Times caught my interest. I'm not of the target audience you might imagine as it appears to be a book to help teenagers who are of less than average height. I'm 26 and 1.90 m tall, which is pretty tall for a woman.



But the book is excellent. It focuses on being different and how you might deal with that. I had problems with bullying because I was tall and thin. The message here would have

People who know me may think it is unusual that I was interested in reading this book, but a review in the NY Times caught my interest. I'm not of the target audience you might imagine as it appears to be a book to help teenagers who are of less than average height. I'm 26 and 1.90 m tall, which is pretty tall for a woman.



But the book is excellent. It focuses on being different and how you might deal with that. I had problems with bullying because I was tall and thin. The message here would have been just as applicable to me. We are all different in some way and kids have this way of intimidating those who are different from their group, This book is written for all of the kids who might be intimidated as well as those who might be doing the intimidation.



Mr Schwartz has an excellent sense of humor which makes the book very easy to read - enough to keep teens moving through it. He debunks some of statistics which have appeared recently about people of differing heights and perhaps starts some serious thinking.



Tall girls are given a very hard time in society. Earlier this year I had been excited about a newly published book that was aimed at that community. It offers a lot of facts and statistics, but does not go into the message I believe is important - that all people have value and we can live with whatever body we have and come to appreciate ourselves and be kind to others. This is the book I would give to a tall teenager, or someone who is overweight, or is short, or different from the norm.