The Confidence Code for Girls

The Confidence Code for Girls

While The Confidence Code for Girls by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman is a non-fiction book with genuine intentions for helping girls feel more confident in everyday situations, the book is poorly organized, is not focused/doesn’t have a direct point, and does not provide attainable suggestions for building confidence.

Summary:

The Confidence Code for Girls is a book that is directed to help tween aged to teen aged girls cope with their lack of confidence. The book is designed to give facts about lack of confidence in girls, to provide suggestions for building confidence, and how to practice those suggestions to ultimately find the confidence they need.

Author Praise and Critique:

In reality, this book gives unrealistic suggestions and scenarios to try to help girls. A lot of the techniques the book suggests are not an accurate evaluation of what young girls will use. None of suggestions in the book are usable on the spot or in everyday situations. In other words, girls couldn’t use them in a moment when they are lacking confidence. All the suggestions are suggestions for pondering and contemplating one’s lack of confidence after the moment. In addition to the suggestions being unrealistic, the book is written to speak to its readers like they are kindergarteners. The book is poorly focused. Between the different chapters of suggestions and the scenarios given through comic strips, the reader does not ever know what to expect on the next page. For a non-fiction book, I find this a little strange especially, because the chapters are intentionally named for what one is supposed to learn in that chapter.

Rating and Reasoning:

I give this book 1 star because the book is not engaging for its projected audience, the suggestions are not usable, and the book is poorly focused.

Audience: 5^th and 6^th graders

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Date Published: April 3, 2018

ISBN: 9780062796981

Format: Hardcover

Genre: Non-fiction

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