Thrilled to see this book out. It's a stereotype-busting picture book aimed at 3-6 year olds, to counteract the nonsense being put out by TRAs and encourage kids to be comfortable in their own bodies. I've ordered a copy for my daughter and another for her school.
The Times said:
Children’s author pens antidote to books peddling ‘wrong body’ myth
A children’s author has written a book to counteract “the explosion in gender ideology” that teaches children they can be “born in the wrong body”.
Rachel Rooney’s My Body is Me addresses concerns about the new sex education and relationships lessons that start next September.
Rooney says there has been an “explosion” over the past three years of books such as Introducing Teddy by Jessica Walton in which an apparently male toy tells a child it has always known it is, in fact, a girl. Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall features a character that feels red despite being blue.
“I’m concerned children who may grow up to be gay or who are discovered to be on the autism spectrum are learning that the reason they may feel confused or different is because they were born in the wrong body,” said Rooney, a former special educational needs teacher. “It’s impossible to have the ‘wrong’ body. It’s a very worrying message we’re sending to children."
Rooney’s book focuses on healthy acceptance of bodies. It is being distributed through the website of Transgender Trend, a group that produces resources for schools dealing with children declaring themselves to be transgender. The number of adolescent girls being referred to gender identity services has risen 4,400% in the past decade.
It's only for sale via Transgender Trend I think. www.transgendertrend.com/shop/
The website says:
RacheI Rooney is a trained teacher in Primary and Special Education. She taught for many years across a range of school settings and has particular interest and experience working with pupils with ASC (Autism). She is now an award-winning children’s poet and picture book writer. www.rachelrooneypoet.com
Jessica Ahlberg has been illustrating books for children for 18 years.
(And, they don't say, but she's the daughter of Janet & Allen Ahlberg who wrote & illustrated Each Peach Pear Plum, Burglar Bill, the Jolly Postman etc etc!)