A richly illustrated celebration of pronouns and the various people who might use them. Each spread offers a pronoun and beautiful images of people with differing gender expressions. It starts with “me”—a nice touch to connect with the reader, and proceeds to he, she, they, ze, and even “tree” (a nod to their later suggestion that readers can create their own pronouns). They finish with the community of “we.”
That alone would be enough to make this a wonderful book, but the authors add six pages at the end with simple, affirming explanations about pronouns. “Pronouns can be a way to share how you feel on the inside. Because this inside part is the most important part of you, it cannot be about outside ideas of how people think she or he is ‘supposed’ to act. It has to be about how you feel,” they say. They also encourage people to create and play with pronouns. “Use your imagination to play with how characters in movies and books could feel on the inside,” they suggest. “Begin by using they for different characters. Or change a main character from he to she or from she to he…. Playing like this gives you even bigger ideas about he and she and gives you bigger ideas about how people feel on the inside, including you.”
A creative and interactive approach to the topic.
