Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls... Coloring Book

By Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer

Book Overview

This updated edition of the iconic coloring book Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be... by Jacinta Bunnell contains all new illustrations and questions for contemplation. In this groundbreaking coloring book, you will meet girls who build drum sets and fix bikes, boys who bake and knit, and all manner of children along the gender spectrum. Children are tender, vulnerable, tough, zany, courageous, and gentle, no matter what their gender. This coloring book is for all the heroic handsome beauties of the world and for everyone who has ever colored outside the lines--a reminder that we never need to compromise ourselves to fit someone else's idea of who we ought to be.

Featuring illustrations by Giselle Potter, Nicole Georges, Kristine Virsis, Simi Stone, Jacinta Bunnell, Nicole Rodrigues, Richard Wentworth, and many more, this is the perfect book for the gender creative person in your life. The future is gender fabulous.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629635073
• ISBN13: 9781629635071
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.1" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

great book for disrupting stereotypes

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.

Queer theory for beginners!

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!