Christian Perring is the editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews which is part of Mental Health Net. He does a lot of research on philosophy or psychiatry and psychology. He also works with medical ethics, psychology and personal identity. He has written many of his own book reviews while also mainly editing the reviews by others.
Perring writes his review of The Flight of a Dove by discussing the good and bad characteristics of this book. He makes an important connection between what was seen in the book and his review by stating that this was a “hopeful story, showing how the right treatment works so well for Betsy”. He continues by mentioning that the pictures went well with the story line and represented an accurate portrayal of “Betsy’s isolation, frustration and odd behaviors”. The only negative aspect of the book that Perring mentions is he is not clear on who might want to read this book. Since it is a children’s book, he knows parents aren’t going to want to read this on their own time, but a child with autism probably won’t benefit from this story, even if their parent read it to them. The only people that will benefit from it are siblings and friends of someone with autism. The only thing I would argue about that comment is what’s wrong with that? Isn’t that the whole point of writing books, to make them available to all readers, not just insiders?
While Perring wrote a decent review on The Flight of a Dove, I do feel as though he failed to go on and explain what he meant by “the right treatments working so well for Betsy”. I thought that this was a pretty significant part of the book, and pretty much the main point of the book and he never went on to explain anything about it. So I would have to say that not mentioning this was definitely a weakness of this review.
Perring’s review also fails to mention if this is a diverse piece of literature. This was obviously not what he was focusing on in his review but is something he could have definitely talked about. But I would have to say that I highly recommend The Flight of a Dove as I think it is a great piece of diverse literature, despite if Perring thought so or not. I think it could be used as an educational tool to people who want to know more about someone with autism and what they can do to help or to anyone who wants to read a well-written children’s book.
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