My Princess Boy

Title: My Princess Boy

Author: Cheryl Kilodavis

Illustrator: Suzanne DeSimone

Medium: Colored pencils

Genre: Poetry (layers of meanings, verses, and rhythm repetition) and Nonfiction

Theme: To accept and support the children for whoever they want to be

Literacy Elements:

Setting: Outside on meadow with beautiful trees, flowers, and pink sky. It doesn't select a location. On meadow represents a happy environment where everyone is celebrated to support a pink boy to wear dress.

Characterization: This book shows the happy characters without faces to avoid to identify its race. Its goal to apply everyone without any races recognition.

Style: I like how its book offered simple and fun with effective meanings behind for the children to enjoy reading at the same time they are exposed in many ways. This message is to permit boys to explore crossing gender role lines. It shows that the life is much happier when people accept each other for whoever they want to be.

Plot: It's nonfiction about four year old boy who's happy to have people respect his wish to wear dress and jewelry with anything pink. He is a happy person when he does follow up doing the traditional girl things. Parents and people around him accept him for whoever he is.

Evaluation/Reflection: This book is completely different from all the other children books I've read in my life. It brings the acceptance in a new generation where boys and girls are allowed to cross the gender role boundaries. This concept provides people to reconsider their acceptance. Often, I noticed many people are afraid to explore themselves to discover who they really are because the parents expected their kids to follow the society. It's a wonderful message to inform the parents that its healthy to let the kids explore young.