Illiad Blog on the book called "Lippy the Lion"

In my quest to find a book that would relate to college students with Cleft Lip and Palate's I realized that there is not a go to book. Books that come up are only books about academia on Cleft Lip and Palate's or about young children and their parents. "Lippy the Lion" by Joanne Green is one of these books. When reading "Lippy the Lion" I became angry. How could I only come up with a book with cartoons in it, that really was for parents rather than adults with Cleft Lip and Palate's? The book explained why it is hard to go through the first years of being born with the birth defect; however, what happens after that? What about all the doctor appointments, missed school, special classrooms, teasing, countless surgery's, dental and orthodontic work and most of all jealousy. At the end of the book it has Cleft Lip and Palate facts that describe how many people are born with the birth defect. What about the people that already have the problem? More relevant facts should include the median number of surgery's, years of dental and orthodontic work, number of ear infections college students with Cleft Lip and Palate's get in a year and so on. Once you are born with the defect most people including myself don't care why they were the one's chosen to live out that life path, but rather, what can they do to make their lives be the best it can be. The best it can be does not in any way shape or form mean to be normal, which is what the book explains as to why people with the defect go through all the pain and suffering.