The parallel-universe version of the "Dick and Jane" coloring book, Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls is a comic deconstruction of traditional gender roles. This playful, provocative coloring book contains 32 original illustrations guaranteed to give even the most seasoned gender bender a good laugh. Captions like "Calvin, baking is fun and all, but we can make a rad drum set out of these pots and bowls" and "Don't let gender box you in" offer lighthearted, fun ways to rethink gender for both children and adults. Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls makes it OK to step outside the lines.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great book for disrupting stereotypes,
This review is from: Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls: A Coloring Book (Paperback)
My 5 year old son and I had a great conversation just about the cover of this book and what gender each character was and how we can tell. He's a bit young for the rest of it but he'll enjoy coloring it and will grow into the message, I think.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Queer theory for beginners!,
By wildflowerboy (planet earth) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls: A Coloring Book (Paperback)
Given the heteronormativity and reactionary gender stereotypes pervasive in most children's literature, this thought-provoking coloring book is a wonderful intervention, challenging kids to interrogate patriarchal gender and sexual orientation dichotomies. It is also a fun consciousness-raising tool for adults struggling to unlearn a lifetime of sexist and heterosexist (mis)education and media saturation. With sexist, homophobic, and transphobic violence being such a major problem in our schools and communities, not to mention the high number of suicides among LGBT youth, such material is enormously important. Besides buying a copy for yourself and your children, how about donating one to your local school, library, chapter of PFLAG, or LGBT youth group? I'd also encourage you (if you can) to buy some non-toxic, non-GMO soy or beeswax crayons to color it with as petroleum-based crayons are obviously bad for the environment!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Color me disappointed!,
By Passionphd (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls: A Coloring Book (Paperback)
As with their other titles, these authors have little sense of what draws a child's eye or child's ear.
If your child likes to color with microfine pencil, maybe they'd enjoy filling in the tiny spaces on these non-crayon, non-appealing illustrations. The cover is well chosen, as it is about the only fun one in the book. I think they passed around a hat at a senior wimmin's drum circle and in the interest of egalitarian community, printed every single person's suggestion so none would feel excluded. So we have gems like "girls against gender assignment" and "me and tommy got 98% on our man tests. what did you get" and "dad, after we're done cleaning, let's go make some quiche together" plus heartwarming drawings of girl (in wheelchair, of course) shaving boys armpits. Why cant pc be WITTY? Why can't gender awareness, oh, I don't know, have some clever puns or rhymes? Eyerolling aside, the kids -- who would love a chance to color boy ballerinas and kick ass girls -- were bored to death. That is until I noticed the handy worksheet that comes with the book -- imagine how things heated up with the 4-8 year olds when I offered them such hot discussion topics as "what privileges do you or don't you have due to the gender you've been labeled"? You get the picture. Where is our wiccan Dr. Scarry? Our feminist Dr. Seuss?? Certainly not here.
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Once upon a time, there lived two strong, compassionate, and rambunctious young people named Irit and Jacinta. Read the first page New!
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Once upon a time, there lived two strong, compassionate, and rambunctious young people named Irit and Jacinta. Read the first page New!
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- Kate and the Beanstalk (Anne Schwartz Books) by Mary Pope Osborne in Back Matter
- The Brave Little Seamstress by Mary Pope Osborne in Back Matter
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