Unless they come back and read it as adults, with some sort of understanding of disability, they end up never realising it's a dystopia for disabled people and they keep on recommending it as a really good book for kids with a positive message about disability.

Real question: do disabled people who encounter the book young come back to it with the same kind of double vision, or do they flag earlier that there are problems with a narrative that, despite what I assume were its best intentions, categorizes them as "things"? [edit] I encountered things that were hella misogynist as a child and in some cases it took me decades to notice, but I don't know that this happens along all axes. Stuff I encountered as a child that was anti-Semitic, I generally noticed, even if the definition of "noticed" was sometimes "felt weird about and years later went aaaaagh."