Teaching tolerance and respect to children is challenging and essential. I Can't Play With You sheds light on many of the attitudes children pick up from various sources and addresses them head-on. The greater the list of Lorraine's prejudices, the larger the impact until life is mostly gone from the surrounding world. Only the rabbit and the fox, natural prey and predator, see what ingratitude yields-and when the book concludes, it is they who sow the seeds to repair the world.