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Bold and beautiful, loud and proud, All Bodies are Good Bodies is an uplifting book about different body features and types. Through playful rhyme, it promotes the development of body acceptance and celebrates inclusivity and individuality.
I love hands!
Hands that are white and hands that are brown,
Freckles mean sunshine has sent kisses down.
Short fingers, long fingers, bendy or straight,
Hands to clap, or high-five your mate.
Reviews (3)
Bookseller Publisher Review
All Bodies Are Good Bodies is a rhyming picture book that champions bodies of all shapes and sizes. Charlotte Barkla¿s words are written to be read out loud as one by one she sings the praises of various body parts: `Hands that are white and hands that are brown/Freckles mean sunshine has sent kisses down¿, `Long arms, short arms, chubby or twiggy/Some are muscly and others are jiggly.¿ Erica Salecedo¿s illustrations, too, are a tribute to diversity, depicting a group of children at play, all with a variety of skin tones and hair colours and styles; there are bodies in wheelchairs and eyes adorned with glasses. The book is a riot of movement: all the children are seen doing typical kid activities, using all their senses and enjoying all that their bodies can do¿reading, crafting with playdough, hanging upside-down on play equipment, washing dogs. For preschoolers upwards, there¿s nothing especially unusual about all these pastimes and that¿s the whole point of the book. It¿s a reminder that all too easily we take our bodies for granted when¿ look!¿they can jump and twirl and shake and laugh. Thuy On is a freelance arts journalist and reviewer, and the books editor of the Big Issue
School Library Journal Review
PreS--Bodies of all shapes and sizes are celebrated in this delightful Australian import geared towards toddlers and preschoolers. Body parts are reinforced with body-positive statements on every double-page spread featuring a white redheaded girl with flying pigtails who points to something. On the opposite page, a crew of children of various types--of different races, multi-hued, and differently abled--point or gesture to their own bodies. The rhyming text is simple and the message easy to understand. Deliberate inclusion makes this book easy to share in the classroom or for story hours. VERDICT A solid introduction to body positivity and awareness for toddlers and preschoolers, this should make for lively sharing.--Jennifer Knight, North Olympic Lib. Syst., Port Angeles, WA
Kirkus Review
Told in rhyme, this book celebrates body parts such as hands, eyes, and noses. "I love hands. Hands that are white and hands that are brown. / Freckles mean sunshine has sent kisses down," begins this simple story of body acceptance. Barkla's well-meaning effort describes a range of body parts and offers examples of how they might appear. Children with a variety of skin tones, hair textures, facial expressions, and racial presentations fill alternating pages. Though an effort is made to uplift marginalized attributes, the messaging is shallow and keeps conventional characteristics squarely in the center. Illustrator Salcedo's art places a White-presenting child with mostly normative features as the protagonist, with non-normative bodies coming across as an afterthought. For example, in the spread celebrating "giant legs, tiny legs, hairy or smooth," Barkla writes that "some legs are really quick, others don't move." An accompanying image shows a yoga-posing child wearing a prosthetic leg; as the joints reveal, the leg is certainly in motion. Meanwhile, of the five other kids rendered in the spread, four are slender and pale-skinned; the child who uses a wheelchair elsewhere in the book is nowhere to be seen. Readers looking for an accessible, body-positive picture book will find Tyler Feder's Bodies Are Cool (2021) to be an excellent choice. (This book was reviewed digitally.) All bodies are absolutely good bodies; unfortunately, not all books on the subject are. (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.