Connor Kissed Me

Review
By Booklist

Little Miriam is playing soccer with her classmate Connor when the boy suddenly kisses her. The shocked girl tells a number of people: a friend, the playground monitor, her teacher, and the bus driver. Each adult has a different reaction to the incident, but Miriam is unsatisfied with their responses. Her teacher considers moving her seat in the classroom, and the bus driver smiles and labels it “puppy love.” After school, Miriam tells her mother about the incident, and the woman responds with a question and suggestion that teach her daughter a valuable lesson. Colorful digital-cartoon illustrations picture a multicultural school and a brown-skinned, black- braided Miriam. The author tactfully makes the points both that letting adults know something unsettling has occurred is important and that it then may be necessary to go to someone else for help as well. Miriam has enough self-confidence to talk with adults about her concern, and this book provides children the opportunity to acknowledge her determination and follow her lead.