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Reviewed in Canada on July 10, 2019

The book was great! We used it at out local pride events in June. We set up a table with books that could be used to help explain diversity and support children and family that identify on the LGBTQ2S spectrum <3

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eileen

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Reviewed in Canada on June 15, 2015

Cute book..

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eileen

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Reviewed in Canada on June 15, 2015

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Cute book..

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Preachy and misguided

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2019

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I think this book comes from a good place but it is very preachy and almost accusatory in tone. I wanted a book about this subject are as there is a child in my nursery who does exactly this - but the other children do not call him names or refuse to play with him. He just wears dresses and is himself and that is fine with staff and parents; and so the children are fine with it too. I don't need a book suggesting it aught to be a problem!

Why keep referring to his behaviour/dresses as girly? not all girls wear dresses to nursery and he's not a girl so why make that a bigger issue? I'm guessing the author had a difficult experience with her son and is projecting her anger on the rest of us who are not behaving as she predicts we will.

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Anonym

Kam absolut nicht an

Reviewed in Germany on February 21, 2018

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Ich habe dieses Buch für meinen Sohn gekauft, der gerne Kleider getragen hat. Bis er dieses Buch bekam.
Die Bilder von den Kindern ohne Gesicht fand er gruselig. Die Seiten in der Geschichte, die beinhalteten, dass das Kind geärgert wird und blöde Spitznamen bekommt, WEIL er Kleider trägt, haben ihn zum Weinen gebracht. Den Titel "Princess Boy" fand er absolut unpassend. Definitiv nicht empfehlenswert für die angepeilte Zielgruppe.

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Rachel

Preemptive anxiety

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020

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I should have read the back, then I absolutely would not have purchased this book. So that’s 100% my fault. I bought this based on a recommendation from someone who saw a photo my beautiful 4 year old child happily dancing in dressed and chasing rainbows and said he’d love this book. Here’s the thing. My child is my princess boy. We live in a conservative area and not a single person has said a negative thing to us or pulled a face. We have received nothing but compliments and praise for our parenting and his fashion choices and over the top personality. When someone addresses him as she, we don’t correct them because it’s not worth it, and sometime he refers to himself as a girl, so who cares? So when I began to read this story aloud, and the author suddenly introduced bullying, I stopped reading it to my kid. He doesn’t need to know that bullying is a possibility. He doesn’t need to be introduced to the idea shame when he has none. Right now he’s 100% unabashedly himself and there is no need to tell him the world or people think otherwise, or be filled with anxiety when that is not his experience, and may never be. If he is bullied, we will address it.

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Crunchy Mom of 3

It's too bad I didn't love this book

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2017

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It's too bad I didn't love this book... I ordered it for my boy who occasionally likes to wear dresses (1-2 times/week). I also ordered a copy for his classroom.
But a lot of it focused on being made fun of, or other cool boys doing non-"princess" things... My son hasn't been made fun of or bullied at all. I just thought it would be cool to have a book with a character who made him think, "Hey! I'm like that too!"

Maybe this book would be helpful if a dress-wearing boy were being picked on or bullied.

Definitely not helpful for my secure, car-loving, mess-making, non-glittery, dancing, not-bullied dress-wearing boy.

Oh well.

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Amy Catherine

Where are the faces?!

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2017

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I REALLY wanted to like this book. But honestly, the fact that none of these folks have faces (eyes, nose, mouth) was just too disturbing to keep around. I was hoping this would be the book for my very own princess boy, but not with these scary, no facial expression drawings!

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Sean Foley

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2017

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It's a nice book, but not what I was looking for.

Chelseabath

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015

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Great message... Not so great writing.

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Anonamommy

5 for the spirit of the book, 1 for the execution

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2011

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I myself have a transgender child so I am always on the lookout for books that reflect real children (as opposed to animals) who embrace and embody something other than social norms and are framed in a positive light. I wanted sooo much to love this book. I do not regret purchasing this book, if only to support the mom of another trans child who is so accepting of her child. I follow the author on Facebook and I support her intentions and message 150%, BUT...

I have to say there were a few things that I really had a problem with regarding this book. The first and most obvious one was that none of the characters in this book have faces illustrated. Not only that sort of creep me out, I really couldn't for the life of me understand WHY faces were not drawn onto the bodies. If that was lost on ME, I have to think that it is lost on the children who read it.

The other thing i had a problem with was that this book was clearly written by a mom who loves and adores and supports her kid. While that message is endearing and wonderful, again, I have to wonder whether kids would find it interesting at all to basically be reading a MOTHER'S story. It would have been so much more "relatable" to a child who is going through this if the book was written from the child's perspective. If I were a kid, I'd kind of be like "Who cares what you think, Mom? It means nothing to ME." Kids are still developmentally speaking living in their own experiences from their own perspectives. So in that regard, I think this book WILDLY missed the mark.

I have this book in my library, along with several others, which I have similar criticisms about. I would just love it if someone would write a book FROM A KID'S PERSPECTIVE (NOT a penguin's or a ducks, or a...) about what it's like to live outside the norms of society. Hm.. maybe that will be my next project!

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