I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Great for kids who need some help reading body language. Very well written and fun illustrations.

This book was not only fun, it was very informative. In a small way it explains sarcasm, but it’s not just sarcasm. It’s how to tell connotation of what a person is saying. I think this book is helpful to everyone in general, but would be a great source for parents with very literal children, learning how to read social cues. It takes the concept and gives multiple examples of using that concept in everyday life.

This is the sort of book that you read and think, "Why hasn't someone done this before?" Kids get told to pay attention to how they treat people, but we don't often tell them what to look for. This book does just that. I have to admit that I wasn't too enamored of the illustrations. It's more a matter of taste than anything else, and I don't think most kids would find them off putting.

Brilliant, this is a must for anyone with young children, special need children or teachers
Freddie the Fly addresses social cues that can be so difficult for children to understand,
It is written in a clear simple way with illustrations that go perfectly with the text.
I am a mother of 4, two of which are autistic, this book is an excellent tool to help them understand body language and " connecting the dots" . Its also a book i would read with my youngest in a few years too.
Very well written and illustrated .
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Freddie the Fly: Connecting the Dots
by Kimberly Delude, Illustrator Brian Martin
Boys Town Press

Many children’s books try to teach children that using irony and sarcasm is inappropriate and that it’s important to say what you mean. There aren’t many books that help develop emotional intelligence. This book fills the gap. “Freddie the Fly: Connecting the Dots” helps introduce children to irony and sarcasm and helps teach them how to understand it. Although the material may be too advanced for some 4 and 5 year-olds, the book does a good job of explaining circumstances where people don’t say what they mean. For children and others who struggle with irony, it is difficult to make sense of situations where people are saying one thing but mean something totally different.

Kimberly Delude presents realistic scenarios for children to help them understand when this might happen and how we should always pay attention to physical cues to figure out someone’s true meaning. In some of the scenarios the book uses, Freddie the Fly ends up getting in trouble because he listens to what the grown-ups are telling him instead of following what they mean. Although this seems unfair, these scenarios are teachable moments that will give parents and other caretakers the opportunity to explain how even grown-ups will say and do things that are inappropriate.