Don’t Sit There!

Don’t Sit There! By Jill Newton
Ages 5 and above

I did not care for this book. The story was about Fat Aunt Marylyn who sits on the couch and it breaks in half. The family gets a new big couch and the all of these things start randomly disappearing. I was very confused at this point in the book because people and things would just magically vanish. Then Fat Aunt Marilyn tries to sit on this couch and it again breaks in half. The catch this time was that all of the things that disappeared like the workers who brought the couch in, grandma, and her birthday cake all were back because they were stuck inside the new big couch.
I think this book was rude and sends a bad vibe towards their overweight aunt who they actually call “fat Aunt Marilyn.” The kids also make fun of how Aunt Marilyn broke the couch on the first page of the book which I think also sends off a bad message. This book in a way shows that making fun of overweight people and calling them names are okay to do.