Greg Stobbs, Oxford University Press, (32p) ISBN: 9781382054904. Picture Book, read 22/03/25, Paperback ★★★★☆

Cloud Boy

Bobby has a vivid imagination and a desire to know, and is often taken down different paths of sights, sounds, and smells with no notice.

Bobby’s life is full of colour, noise, and the whole world all at once keeping him forever curious and this lifts him to the clouds and above.

But at times Bobby would like to be like others; tidy like his mum, able to focus on one subject like his teacher, able to sit and read like one friend, or even just to sit in quite and stillness like another friend.

Everyone tries to help Bobby be more like them but all this does is ties him down and stops him from being anything, and the moment he lets himself be once more he shoots off.

A brilliant book about differences and neurodivergence where often the more you try to ‘control’ a person from being themselves the more problems can come about from that control.

Accept and try to see the differences and maybe, just maybe you can see the world through a different lens with all the wonder of the various colours, smells, and sounds.

I received this from Oxford University Press in exchange for an honest review.