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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist
£12.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241561904 | ISBN 10: 0241561906
Once there was a girl with a big laugh and a big heart and very big dreams. She grew and grew and grew. And it was good... until it wasn't. When the girl grows big, the world begins to make her feel small. She feels out of place and invisib ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241394335 | ISBN 10: 0241394333
From Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colourism, self-esteem and learning that true beauty comes from within. Sulwe's skin is the colour of midnight. She's darker than everyone in her famil ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913339173 | ISBN 10: 1913339173
An uplifting and empowering book about colourism and sisterhood. Sunflower Sisters is the first in a new, uplifting picture book series by Monika Singh Gangotra, which centres around best friends Amrita and Kiki. While the story offers a w ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241519936 | ISBN 10: 0241519934
This body positive picture book is a vibrant, joyful, and judgement-free celebration of every body shape and size. My body, your body, every different kind of body! All of them are good bodies! BODIES ARE COOL! This heart-warming, inclus ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781401961015 | ISBN 10: 1401961010
Beautiful Girl presents this simple but important message: that to be born a girl is a very special thing and carries with it magical gifts and powers that must be recognized and nurtured. Through these empowering words and illustrations, little gi ... more
View book details£10.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780711252400 | ISBN 10: 0711252408
What if every young girl loved her body? Love Your Body encourages you to admire and celebrate your body for all the amazing things it can do (like laugh, cry, hug, and feel) and to help you see that you are so much more than your body. Bodi ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780316562577 | ISBN 10: 0316562572
An entertaining picture book that teaches the importance of asking for permission first as a young girl attempts to escape the curious hands that want to touch her hair. It seems that wherever Aria goes, someone wants to touch her hair. In t ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571346875 | ISBN 10: 0571346871
My birthday’s coming up so soon, I’ll need new clothes to wear. But most of all, I need to know, How shall I style my hair? Will it be dreads or a twist out? Braids or a high-top fade? Joyous and vibrant, this captures perfectly the e ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781445161105 | ISBN 10: 1445161109
There are all kinds of bodies. They come in different shapes, colours and sizes and every body is completely unique. Our bodies are amazing things! They change as we get older. Different bodies are good at different things. What can your body do? Thi ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474927284 | ISBN 10: 1474927289
Jemima Small is funny and super smart. She knows a lot of things. Like the fact that she’s made of 206 bones, over 600 muscles and trillions of cells. What she doesn’t know is how that can be true and yet she can still feel like nothing... or how ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241406427 | ISBN 10: 0241406420
It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this story of self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters. Zuri knows her hair is beautiful, but it has a mind of its own! It kinks, coils, and curl ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787413757 | ISBN 10: 1787413756
Mai and Rose are best friends but they're not two peas in a pod. Mai has dark hair that is curly and whirly and never stays put. Why couldn't she have perfect hair just like her best friend Rose? Rose has blonde hair, as straight as ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781481477710 | ISBN 10: 1481477714
In the tradition of Judy Blume, debut author Kristi Wientge tackles the uncomfortable — but all too relatable — subject of female body hair and self-esteem with this “sparkling and triumphant tale of a middle school misfit” (Heather Vogel Fre ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781641521666 | ISBN 10: 164152166x
Puberty comes with a lot of changes. Celebrate Your Body (And Its Changes, Too!) will help girls understand (and love) their bodies now and as they continue to grow. For many girls, puberty can be an uncertain time. Celebrate Your Body (And Its ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408897058 | ISBN 10: 1408897059
Fifteen-year-old Virginia feels like a fat, awkward outsider in her perfect family, especially next to her golden-boy big brother Byron. She's got a lot to deal with – her weight, her best friend moving away, the mean girls at school – not to men ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781925089189 | ISBN 10: 1925089185
This book explores consent and respect with children especially in relation to body boundaries, both theirs and others. A child growing up knowing they have a right to their own personal space, gives that child ownership and choices as to what happen ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780749747 | ISBN 10: 1780749740
Dani is ravaged by anorexia and hasn't eaten for days. Fletcher is fighting to stay off the streets and to stay off drugs. Will their attraction to each other save or destroy them? Both patients at the Daisy Bank Rehab Centre, Fletcher wants ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408868409 | ISBN 10: 1408868407
NO! I do not want this BIG CURLY HAIR! It's messy and silly and just plain unfair. All Curly Haired Girl has ever wanted is straight and luscious locks, but when she meets a little girl with the smoothest, silkiest hair, who says all she's ever ... more
View book details£10.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848192218 | ISBN 10: 1848192215
*Silver medal winner in the 'Self-Esteem' category of the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards 2015* Bodies do all sorts of amazing things, like move around, grow bigger and heal themselves. Bodies also come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and w ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781626250185 | ISBN 10: 1626250189
Like most teens, you want to feel good about the way you look. But what happens when the way you look just doesn't feel good enough? Whether it's online, on TV, or in magazines, images of impossibly perfect-and mostly Photoshopped-young women are eve ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780750278027 | ISBN 10: 0750278021
Follow the adventures of the loveable dinosaur, Rex, and his friends, Dachy, Steggie and Emmy. Emmy has eczema. She knows she shouldn't scratch. But sometimes she's so itchy, she just can't help it. One day, she scratches so much she makes h ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780552565974 | ISBN 10: 0552565970
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. ... more
View book details£5.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780861523931 | ISBN 10: 0861523938
Brontorina knows, deep in her heart, that she is meant to be a ballerina. James Howe's lovable dinosaur is of a size outmatched only by her determination, and has talent outmatched only by her charm. Accompanied by Randy Cecil's beguiling ... more
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