Rather, readers can identify with any of these characters and not feel bad about who they are. And despite all the books’ laughs, Look never uses jokes at the characters’ expenses.

Throughout all of these challenges is a range of original, real characters: children and adults from all sorts of races, genders, financial levels and medical conditions. With a dad who only curses through Shakespearean insults, a friend named Flea with a shortened leg and an eye patch over her 'genuine pirate eye' and a class-bully-who-isn’t-really, how could Alvin ever have a normal day?Īlvin’s life problems range from the mild (camping and attending a girl’s birthday party) to the particularly tough (dealing with his mother’s pregnancy and learning to accept that his grandfather, GungGung, will one day die), but they’re always guaranteed to give an important lesson to readers. While he’s confident enough to be his alter ego, Firecracker Man, at home, he falls apart in the outside world if he doesn’t have his Personal Disaster Kit.īut despite his lack of speech, his school and social lives are filled with adventure and mayhem.

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