You’re SO Amazing!

About this book

Joe loves having fun at the playground with his friends. They can immerse themselves in imagination-fuelled games, speed down slides and dangle off the monkey bars. However, there’s a constant stream of on-lookers who insist on viewing one-legged Joe as a source of inspiration. So even when his friend Simone is clearly way better at high-jumping than Joe, or when he’s just minding his own business, eating an ice cream (or even just scratching his bottom), it’s always Joe who gets noticed and told how amazing he is.  

This is a superbly incisive and perfectly pitched picture book about the right of every child to just be an ordinary kid. Those who know Joe don’t see him as ‘amazing Joe’ or ‘poor Joe’ but rather ‘just Joe’. Ironically, it’s well-intentioned passers-by and parents who, by their very efforts to include and encourage, in fact insidiously single Joe out.

This show-stopper of a book features the same protagonist as What Happened to You? and it is every bit as wonderful, witty and wise, if not even more so. 

A joyous read and an important reminder that we should all be able to get on with everyday life without comment.