The first half of the book focuses on social skills like how to greet someone, how to stand up for yourself, how to show gratitude and how to apologize. “What Can I Say?,” written by Catherine Newman (the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine) and illustrated by Debbie Fong (who also collaborated with Newman on “How to Be a Person”), is a primer for tweens on healthy communication and boundaries, how to be an ally, how to care for your community - basically, as Newman spells out in her introduction, “how to talk to the other people in your life.”
