Pink, Blue, and You by Elise Gravel
Release Date: March 8th, 2022
Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada – Anne Schwartz Books
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Pages: 40
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Synopsis
Simple, accessible, and direct, this picture book is perfect for kids and parents or teachers to read together, opening the door to conversations about gender stereotypes and everyone’s right to be their true selves.
Is it okay for boys to cry? Can girls be strong? Should girls and boys be given different toys to play with and different clothes to wear? Should we all feel free to love whoever we choose to love? In this incredibly kid-friendly and easy-to-grasp picture book, author-illustrator Elise Gravel and transgender collaborator Mykaell Blais raise these questions and others relating to gender roles, acceptance, and stereotyping.
With its simple language, colorful illustrations, engaging backmatter that showcases how appropriate male and female fashion has changed through history, and even a poster kids can hang on their wall, here is the ideal tool to help in conversations about a multi-layered and important topic.
Review
Thank you to TBR and Beyond Tours and author Elise Gravel for sending me a copy of this book to read to my baby sister.
Reading this book to my little sister was such an enjoyable experience. This type of content is so important to instill in kids at a young age. My little sister is 3 and she perfectly understood what each page was trying to tell her within this story, the pictures were so succinct and the additional commentary from the different characters fit the story so perfectly. This story features so many important talking points regarding the inclusivity of all personalities, genders, and other human qualities. I will for sure keep this book on my shelf for years to come.
TikTok Post
https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js@justiceforreaders Thank you so much to TBR and Beyond Book Tours for providing me with this truly magical read: Pink, Blue, and You by Elise Gravel ❤️📚 #childrensbooks #booktok #tbrbeyondtours #elisegravel #pinkblueandyou ♬ i still love you – niko 🌟
I was born in Montreal in 1977 and I started drawing not very long after I was born. In kindergarten I was popular because I was able to draw princesses with long spiral hair. Then, in high school, the girls would ask me to draw their ideal guy in their diary. I became very good at drawing muscles and hair, which I used later when I illustrated my book The Great Antonio . On the other hand, I am always just as bad when it comes time to use a diary correctly.
Later, I studied graphic design at Cegep and that’s when I understood that I wanted to do illustration. After my first book, the Catalog des Gaspilleurs , I wrote and illustrated about thirty others . One of my books, The Wrench , won the Governor General’s Award in the Illustration category, and since that time I have a big head and I brag all the time.
I live in Montreal with my two daughters, my husband, my cats and a few spiders. I am currently working on various projects in Quebec, English Canada and the United States. My books are translated into a dozen languages. I hope to live a long time so that I can still make lots and lots of books because I still have lots and lots of ideas.
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