8/6/2023 0 Comments Smile bookRaina Telgemeier (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.43 avg rating 1,931 ratings published 2019 6 editions. Share Your Smile: Raina's Guide to Telling Your Own Story. I'm glad she finds how to love herself through all her teeth trials and friend troubles, but my daughter wasn't ready yet for the ideas of obsessing over kissing boys, insecurities and peer pressure. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Finally in the end, she decides to start doing something she likes to do and makes better friends, who work together and like her for herself. Smile is about Ruhls birth of twins and subsequent onset of Bells palsy, a condition where the face is partially paralyzed. At one point, her mom says in a demeaning way that she needs a bra, without talking to her about puberty in any way. They do admit that they are kidding and she doesn't leave the house that way. ![]() Although things do improve at the very end of the book, the main character focuses on physical insecurity throughout the whole book, with friends who are obsessed with boys and try to pressure her to kiss anyone at the party just so she can "get her first kiss." The friends push her to dress very scantily in a mini skirt, tube top and fish net stockings (which is pictured) to impress her crush. The graphics were cute and she was hooked and finished it in one sitting. ![]() ![]() Ive collected 27 different graphic icons. This was a really fun book for my daughter, but I was unhappy with the age rating and some of the negative themes. Smile is about a girl named Rahina and how she trips one day and her tooth falls out and the other one gets pushed up so she needs braces then.So she gets her. This publication lands somewhere between a zine, an artist book, a giant flip book, and an image collection.
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