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One of 10 Best Indie Picture Books of 2014, ForeWord Reviews Runner-Up, 2014 New England Book Festival: Children's Books 2014 Distinguished List of the Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California CCBC Choices 2015 An affirming story about gender nonconformity. Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants? This heartwarming story speaks to the unique challenges faced by children who don't identify with traditional gender roles. Read more
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company; Reprint edition (March 1, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 32 pages
ISBN-10 : 0807563757
ISBN-13 : 55
Reading age : 3 - 8 years, from customers
Lexile measure : AD540L
Grade level : Preschool - 3
Item Weight : 4.5 ounces
Dimensions : 8 x 0.25 x 10 inches
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As a transgender adult who is also a clinical professional who works with transgender folks and their families, this is a great read for transgender children, their siblings, parents, grandparents, teachers, peers. The day I received the book my 7 year old granddaughter was with me and we cracked the book together and she read it to me hesitating only briefly when she came upon the word Transgender. That's when she finally had a word she read for herself that helped her understand her transgendered grandmother even more. She's known about my "difference" since she was three. Now as a second grader she'll have a story to explain not and support her peers who have begun to express gender identity variance. Thank you so much Hoffman family and friends for writing such a clear story!! Though I'm over 65 now, I knew about my gender dysphoria since I was Jacob's age. Though my transition and support for same was absent until my mid-forties. This book is one of the efforts by the wide GLBTI community to start taking down the bricks the binary gender wall that separates. All of us are gifts to the world. Children need to learn this early so their minds have a shining light to go about their goodness and true natures; to lift their future to new levels of beauty, love, and creativity. Please buy an extra copy for your local public library.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2015 by ANNE R HARRIS
Very very sweet book! Even the bully in it is treated nicely. I highly recommend it. It teaches compassion for someone who thinks differently (even the bully).
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2023 by Timothy R.
Though this may be an illustrated book for children, I think parents can also gain insight in reading this book.
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024 by MYShioda
I love Jacob and his new dress. It's tough to be the kid in the group who doesn't toe the line in some way. For Jacob, it's his desire to wear a dress. Thank goodness he is surrounded by loving and thoughtful adults who carefully allow him to express himself and help him find the strength to say (in essence) to his detractors, "I am myself and proud of it." The authors tell the story in a way that is both heart-stoppingly real (how Jacob finds it hard to breathe when he is waiting for his parents' reactions) and aspirational (that Jacob is so effortlessly happy so quickly can only happen in books). The illustrations are colorful and joyful, like Jacob himself. Best of all, Sarah and Ian Hoffman have turned a seemingly single-issue book into a series of universal truths: love and support who your kids are, help people be their best selves, there are lots of ways to be a boy/girl/person, embrace diversity, be fearless in yourself -- the empowerment message goes on and on, but it's so gently and lovingly administered, the reader drinks it in without resistance. Delicious.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2014 by ECrane
Jacob is fortunate as he has a good friend at school, Emily. They dress up together each day and Emily even speaks up to Christopher when he makes fun of Jacob for wearing girls' clothes in the dress up corner which of course upsets Jacob whose teacher suggests he might want to imagine being a firefighter or policeman. Emily also complements Jacob on the dress-thing he made which he wears to school and says she wants one like it. When Christopher yanks off Jacob's dress thing, Emily says Christopher is mean and makes a face at him. When the next day Jacob wears the purple dress he helped his mother make to school, Emily found purple clothes in the dress up area and they played on the monkey bars together.Later she runs after Jacob during a game of tag. This book could help children realize how important it is to have a friend and to be one. This book and Michael and Me by Margret Baker Street could be shared with young children so*** they**** may learn about children who are gender creative and/or transgender and why it is so important that they be understanding of and friends to them. Unfortunately, many gender creative and transgender children do not have friends like Emily.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017 by Elizabeth H. Rowell
Not sure why anyone wants to write a book for 4-5 year olds discussing the possibility of being "transgender". God doesn't make any junk ... which means a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl. This book simply confuses the issue ... even one of the characters in the book is confused to the very end!
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2015 by Karen M
My son is 6, he likes to dress up as various animals, a pirate, a ninja, and sometimes he wears his sister's old dresses. We don't care if he's following a different path and we'd like to support him as best we can in becoming a moral and upright citizen however that path takes him. After an incident where he was questioned and laughed at in school, we bought this book to help reinforce what we've told our kids, that clothes do not define gender and it's ok to dress as he wants as long as it's clean and covers the appropriate bits. The younger kids appreciated this book, and the boy in question liked that Jacob liked to wear dresses like he does. Thankfully, the school principal was dismayed to hear about the incident and we feel that it will be handled appropriately as a teaching moment). But to further help educate other student on tolerance and acceptance, I've also offered to purchase this book for the school library as well as for the classroom libraries of each kindergarten and first grade teacher at the school. I'm hoping they'll take us up on the offer.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2017 by Jen S.
I love the overall message of the book, but I wish books like this didn't have to have extensive descriptions of teasing of kids who are different. My son does not know anything about boys being bullied for wearing dresses (or their parents feeling uncomfortable about it), and I'd rather if he got the message that it's okay to wear dresses, without the message that you might be teased for it. I realize that there need to be books that address teasing and exclusion, but it seems that every single book that discusses gender-nonconformity in boys spends a lot of time talking about how boys get teased for it. This gives kids who may not have even thought about the issue before a really mixed message. This is not the message my son needs to hear now and so I edit those passages out, but it makes for a more stilted reading.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016 by M. Rastegar