Lyons, M., & Verdi, J. (2020). I'm not a girl: A transgender story. Roaring Brook Press.
Genre: Picture Book Fiction
The diversity discussed in this book is about gender identity. Hannah feels like no one understands him. On picture day, he had to wear a pink dress and his mom picks out a pink pirate costume for him for Halloween. He wishes to be a boy when he blows out his birthday candles and refuses to wear the pink jacket his mother buys for him in the winter. One day when swimming, Hannah talks to a couple of kids. When he tells them he's a boy but nobody believes him, they tell him they believe him and Hannah learns the word transgender. Later, he finally gets the courage to tell his parents and they start to believe him. At the end of the book, he gets a haircut and is finally excited for picture day. This book was actually autobiographical by a transgender boy, Maddox Lyons. Lyons wrote about his own journey with his gender identity and having his family believe him. His mother writes in his author's note that he wrote this book due to there not being a lot of books about transgender boys.
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