Have I bought the wokest book?

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I bought "Stories for Boys who Dare to be Different" for DS7 who has listened to "Bedtime Stories for Rebel Girls" and kept asking for one about boys. Fair enough.

Person number 3 is about a trans man. The first to have surgery apparently to match how he "felt inside".

I skipped that story because it's Christmas and I don't feel like giving a biology and politics lesson to my 7 year old (and his 5 year old sister who is also listening).

We continue.

Four stories later, another trans man. Now really, there are very few trans men out there and I think they're generally courageous, in part because they have to be due to society. However, two out of the first seven men who "dare to be different" aren't actually men!

Interestingly, the second one was a pole jumper who had to stop competing after altering their biology.

Alan Turing was in there and pretty well written up, so it's not all bad.

I'm wondering if there will be any boys who dare to be different by wearing a dress..somehow doubting it...

Mm, I've not seen that one in the flesh yet, so have been witholding judgement. Edutwitter went nuts for it earlier in the year, but I'm wary as that particular crowd can lean rather woke. How have you found it - I'm concerned that it's all rather sparkly and stereotypical-things-that-are-coded-girl.

I bought that shitty Rebel girls book for my daughter then saw they horrific Coy (WTF??? COY??) male person included! So I AM that parent who glued the pages together and wrote the review on Amazon...this book stinks!

Gluing the pages together is awesome! 😎

Realised after reading this thread that DGD has a copy of the Rebel Book for Girls and it's sitting on the bookshelf in my bedroom. I am greatly perturbed by this, due to young Master Coy's presence in the book, and think it may have to be disappeared by the fairies. Before this night is out.

Iam thanks 😀 - there was no other option tbh! A book for girls that celebrates their compelled silence wtf? Not for my girls.

silentcrow to be honest I did extensive googling and review reading to work out what it's premise was but yes on reflection you wouldn't exactly get the same story about a girl so perhaps not so great. I think he wears lipstick to the parade. However, I was pleased his grandmother doesn't appear to pop him on a flight to Thailand.

Cheers. Yes, I thought that might be the case. Still one I'd like to look at.

Oh, I have now completed the Little People, Big Dreams set and heartily endorse the ten currently available - very nicely done. They're aimed at KS1, though, so my quest for the KS2 equivalent of Jenni Murray's books continues...

What a good suggestion to make to Jenni Murray....

Jenni's publishers, maybe. Writing non-fiction for kids is a whole different skillset to writing the books Jenni has, which are really wry memoirs, descriptions of her own feelings and experiences as a journalist. She's historically accurate as far as I can tell, but for KS2 you need to be facts-first as they're not of an age to unpick opinion as much. Something like the Usborne Politics for Beginners book would be perfectly pitched, that's what I'm seeking.