Beautifully Me
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From designer, creator, and self-love advocate Nabela Noor (@Nabela) comes a much-needed picture book about loving yourself just as you are.
Meet Zubi: a joyful Bangladeshi girl excited about her first day of school. But when Zubi sees her mother frowning in the mirror and talking about being “too big,” she starts to worry about her own body and how she looks. As her day goes on, she hears more and more people being critical of each other’s and their own bodies, until her outburst over dinner leads her family to see what they’ve been doing wrong—and to help Zubi see that we can all make the world a more beautiful place by being beautifully ourselves.
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It's the first day of school for exuberant narrator Zubi Chowdhury, a round, Muslim Bangladeshi American child. That morning, she witnesses her family bemoaning their weight: Amma calls her tummy "too big," Zubi's older sister Naya turns down parathas because she's dieting for a school dance, and Baba says it's "not good" that he's "up to a large now" in shirt size. At school, a classmate says that a nonbinary student looks fat in their silk dress. Zubi's confusion comes to a head at dinnertime, with an outburst leading to a valuable family conversation: "Sometimes we can be mean to ourselves without even realizing it. And when we hurt ourselves, we hurt the people we love and who love us." Ali adds vibrant, expressive digital illustrations to this candid primer on body acceptance, a salient reminder to guardians of children's emotional osmosis. Back matter includes a Bengali-English glossary. Ages 4–8.
