I'm Deaf and It's Okay by Lorraine Aseltine, Evelyn Mueller, and Nancy Tait

Aseltine, Lorraine, Evelyn Mueller, and Nancy Tait. I'm Deaf and It's Okay. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company, 1986.

This book is a very simply written book about a little boy who is frustrated with being deaf. He cannot understand or be understood by anyone outside of his family and close friends and often feels left out. He throws a couple temper tantrums to let out his frustration and at the end finds a friend who is older and also deaf and feels better about being deaf.

I thought this book was a good book but it wasn't my favorite. I felt that it would be a little unrealistic to think that this boy who is so frustrated with being deaf can just find a friend who is also deaf and change his attitude in that short of time. I also felt that this book was a little repetitive with the sentence length. There were clumps of 4 or 5 word sentences which did not make the book flow very well. Although I thought this book was a good book in the sense that it gave the reader a window into what it would be like to be growing up with a hearing impairment, I would not recommend it to anyone past elementary school because of the simplicity ot the writing.