Simon Spotlight No Red Sweater for Daniel (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood)

Great story for preschoolers about change and how it is okay to do something differently.

In a way, this is a review where I answer another reviewer's question. Yes, some kids do really worry about a color of a sweater, or a specific shirt, or a specific blanket, or a specific fill in the blank. Many children with Autism do just that. As the mom of a beautiful boy who has Autism as one of his many diagnoses, I absolutely love and recommend this book.For my son, he's not so much fixated on his clothes, unless it's the clothes or underwear he was wearing that day. So if he spills something on it, or has an accident in his underwear, trying to get him to change the clothes he started out his day in is bloody murder sometimes. And it took us a long time to get him past needing to have the weighted blanket I made for him every night. I had made a weighted blanket with super soft fabrics that I knew he would love for him, and it took some work to get him to accept other soft blankets for a while. Which became a real problem, because our Catzilla, who has this unfortunate ability to open unlocked lever door knobs, would sometimes get into his room and spray down his bed in a spite-filled fit of kitty angst. Or sometimes our son would have a diaper leak in his bed before he was potty trained, and again...it took us a lot of work to get him to accept any sort of substitution. Now, I'm glad he loves the blanket I made for him so much. But let me tell you, a child who will not sleep because they insist on having a particular blanket which can not be put in the dryer and has to air dry is a real challenge.So I think it is beyond super cool that this is a book that deals with this type of situation, and I bought it because our son really likes Daniel Tiger. We just got this book, and he's not yet letting me read it to him, but he is willing to tolerate me reading it in the same room, and he did look through it yesterday when it came, so I'm hoping he will come to love this one as much as I do. I think Daniel's problem is something he totally gets and can relate to.

Wont you be my Neighbour

Nice addition to our Daniel collection.

It's a pretty standard DT book. A bit dense on the text per page but I just paraphrase. Also a little weird as far as message goes -- do kids really worry they'll be someone else if they change clothes? Why does Daniel wear the same sweater every. single. day. anyway? Is it like a jacket, where who cares? Or a shirt that presumably would have been washed many, many times over the course of Daniel's 4+ year life? My kid went through that 'favorite item of clothing' phase but we made him change clothes at least once a day anyway. And (spoiler alert) if Daniel loves that particular red sweater so much, why is Grandpere sending him a new red sweater in the mail? Was "in the wash" mommy euphemism for "while we were making breakfast your sister ate it"? Which would be why I'm ordering another copy the same day the last copy arrived, by the way.So, I guess "would buy again" is pretty accurate.