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Vashti Harrison‘s self-illustrated picture book is a beautifully executed look at fat bias and its impact on young children. The text is sparse with the focus on the images of the nameless little girl as she endures the taunts and well-meaning but still hurtful comments from adults. It‘s wonderfully done and very moving such that I am still thinking about it. I‘d definitely read more of Harrison‘s work on the strength of this.

Transcendent, radical, and kind, The Body is Not an Apology deconstructs the damage that our shared delusion of body hierarchies does to our communities.

Taylor gives us a chance of a different way of being, with a hope that it will spread to create a more loving and equitable future.

If I could persuade just a few of you to buy this book, read it and pass it on, I'd be chuffed to bits.

CATS AGAINST BODY SHAME! 💕💕💕

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Please take a moment to read this page about our learned responses of body shame.

"It may not be a memory you can access at all, but just knowing that there was a point in your history when you once loved your body can be a reminder that body shame is a fantastically crappy inheritance.

We didn't give it to ourselves, and we are not obligated to keep it."

I‘m so glad this picture book won some ALA Youth Media Awards today! It‘s a fantastic and beautifully illustrated story of how words can hurt, but how we can also work to control our self-image. Many of my students picked this as the Caldecott winner! *Graphic via Little, Brown Books for Young Readers‘ instagram

I‘m doing a “Mock Caldecott” unit with my students in the library, and these are the books we are reading. They are so beautiful! We‘ll find out the real winner next week! #schoollibrarian

I love Harrison‘s other books and this did not disappoint. I adored this book‘s illustrations and message. Everyone should read it. 💕💕💕

I wish I would've come across this earlier in my recovery. Even now I felt so seen and understood, at some points I had to stop because what Megan is talking about was exactly what was going on in my mind and life. This book is like a hug from a close friend and I think that's what Megan went for. What I especially love are her tipps to accept and appreciate one's belly more. I really need to do these, since I'm still struggling...

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This book is about the author‘s memories of her time spent in Japan. Where big group baths are common. This story is lovingly told and would be fantastic at story time if Americans weren‘t such small minded people who bring shame to everything. Because this book has illustrations of naked women. It‘s not to glorify and it‘s not to be lustful. It‘s to say bodies are human, bodies are normal. And that being around others bearing your