Pittsburgh author Howard Shapiro likes to help kids deal with the hard stuff that he remembers suffering through — like being bullied which was the subject of his second book, Destructo Boy and Spillerella…We Are Who We Are! Shapiro, whose debut children’s book Hanukkah Counts Too! was about being a minority during holiday time, takes a straightforward approach to these issues? His direct way of storytelling and the memories he shares of his own experiences are refreshing and useful to young readers.

He just tells it like it is.

Pittsburgh Magazine Review,
November 2006