What did you read this year?
Melissa’s
average rating for
2024
4.2
4.2
A useful and quite beautiful book about the external and internal journey of a child who moves from being praised for being a 'big girl' to being shamed for being 'too big'. I appreciated that this covered both both body shaming/anti-fat bias and the negative attention big kids receive as a result of the adult status their size allows. There is a moving series of wordless images at the center when the child crouches and curls constrained by the p
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