This is an interesting picture book. It talks about disability, and try to show how to understand it. It is also a love story. And the pictures, as you can see below, are cartoon like, and have sequential art to accompany the story.

It is an attempt to show how two people, who each have different disabilities, can not only live and work and love, but also what it is like to be them. The examples given are done with a straw. If you have to only breath through a straw, you would be short of breath, Florence explains her disability that way. If you had to look through a straw at everything, it would be hard to see, and that is the way that Leon explains his disability.

The problem is, and perhaps it is only a problem for me, is that there isn't much of a story here. Yes, it is a love story, and yes it explains disabilities, but that is all there is. And perhaps that is enough for a picture book. And it is a simple way to explain disabilities.




Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.