It is about a gender-creative white boy who wants to wear a dress to school and who ends up making a dress with his mom. My student told me about Julián is a Mermaid the day we read Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah and Ian Hoffman, which is one of my favorite children’s books about children’s gender nonconformity. This weekend I also had the opportunity to attend a panel at NWSA about children’s literature, which included a presentation on Julián is a Mermaid and I will end this post with some of the main points from the talk and the Q and A afterwards.īut first, my class and our discussion of queer children’s books. I am eager to share this book with others, and today I want to write about some of the some of the key themes of this book as I understand them, as well as my thoughts on the books Jacob’s New Dress and My Princess Boy. In my class The Queer and Trans Child we always start or end class by reading children’s books that focus on topics of gender and sexuality and this semester my students’ introduced me to one I had not heard of before, Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. One of my favorite things about teaching is that I learn so much from my students.
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