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Body

Bodies are cool! These fantastic books for young readers share body positivity, neutrality, and acceptance. Add titles like these to your bookshelves - books that show people and families of all kinds with diverse body types, skin tone, body hair, scars, mobility aids, stretchmarks, pimples, tattoos, braces, gender expression, and all things that make our bodies unique!

9 Months: A Month by Month Guide to Pregancy
Van De Paal, Esther
Can you believe that every one of us started as a tiny egg in our mummy's belly? One tiny cell, not bigger than a speck of dust, will grow into a baby in just nine months time. In this book, we follow this amazing process called pregnancy, and see the miracle of a creation of a new life. This fun...
Item No. 9781847809759
$17.99
Sticker-All Bodies are Good Bodies

This weather durable vinyl sticker is designed to celebrate body and gender diversity.

It's a positive reminder to embrace your unique body and feel confident in who you are.

Printed on outdoor-friendly vinyl in full-color in the USA.

...
Item No. 11588286
$4.95
All Food is Good Food
Ehlert, Molli Jackson

From noodles to salad, from congee to pancakes, from dim sum to pizza, author Molli Jackson Ehlert and illustrator Fanny Liem embrace food of all types in this fun and inclusive picture book.

All food is good food. Food fuels your day, nourishes your body, and excites your taste buds. Sweet...

Item No. 9781250854452
$18.99
Beautifully Me
Noor, Nabela


From designer, creator, and self-love advocate Nabela Noor (@Nabela) comes a much-needed picture book about loving yourself just as you are.

Meet Zubi: a joyful Bangladeshi girl excited about her first day of school. But when Zubi sees her mother frowning in the mirror and talking about...

Item No. 9781534485877
$17.99
Big Bath House
Maclear, Kyo
A joyful celebration of Japanese cultural traditions and body positivity as a young girl visits a bath house with her grandmother and aunties

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY New York Public Library - NPR - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Horn...

Item No. 9780593181959
$17.99
Body Actions
Rotner, Shelley

The human body can be astonishing. This book is filled
with energy-packed photographs of kids running, jumping,
riding bikes, and using all five senses. The photos
are overlaid with depictions of the nervous, skeletal,
muscular, respiratory, and circulatory systems and...

Item No. 9780823423668
$16.95
Body Bones
Rotner, Shelley
In this fascinating introduction to skeletal systems, images show how different types of skeletons work. Full-color photographs of people and animals are overlaid with illustrations of bones to show these supporting frameworks. Kids will learn that bones come in all shapes and sizes to serve myriad...
Item No. 9780823431625
$16.95
Curls
Forman, Ruth
A joyfully poetic board book that delivers an ode to African American girls and the beauty of their curls.

Me
Morning

Mirror Smile

Shine big
hair love

This simple, playful, and beautiful board book stars four friends who celebrate the joy of...

Item No. 9781534446311
$8.99
Every Body- A First Conversation About Bodies - Autographed

Autographed by Megan Madison

Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven picture book offers clear, concrete language and beautiful imagery to introduce the concept of BODY LIBERATION...

Item No. 46191543
$15.99
Every Body: A First Conversation about Bodies
Ralli, Jessica
Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body liberation should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.

Developed by...

Item No. 9780593383346
$9.99
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
Ho, Joanna

A New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller - A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year - A School Library Journal Best Book of 2021 - Included in NPR's 2021 Books We Love List - Featured in Forbes, Oprah Daily, The Cut, and Book Riot - Golden...

Item No. 9780062915627
$17.99
Fred Gets Dressed
Brown, Peter


From a New York Times bestselling author and Caldecott-honor winning artist comes an exuberant illustrated story about playing dress up, having fun, and feeling free.

The boy loves to be naked. He romps around his house naked and wild and free. Until he romps into his parents'...
Item No. 9780316200646
$18.99
Hugs Are (Not) for Everybody
Russell, Ella

An upbeat ode to setting and respecting personal boundaries

It's time for a birthday party! On this happy occasion, a friend arrives with hugs for everybody: in greeting, as a way to celebrate perfectly pinning the tail on the donkey and cracking open the piñata, and of...

Item No. 9781771476393
$18.95
It Isn't Rude to be Nude
A beautiful, brilliant debut picture book celebrating bodies in every color, shape, and size

This beautiful and brilliant debut picture book from Rosie Haine celebrates all bodies in every color, shape, and size you can imagine! All bodies are brilliant bodies, no matter what they look...

Item No. 9781849767002
$16.99
Laxmi's Mooch
Anand, Shelly
A joyful, body-positive picture book about a young Indian American girl's journey to accept her body hair and celebrate her heritage after being teased about her mustache.

Laxmi never paid much attention to the tiny hairs above her lip. But one day while playing farm animals at recess,...

Item No. 9781984815651
$17.99
Love Your Body
Sanders, Jessica
* 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Books *

What if every young girl loved her body? Love Your Body encourages you to admire and celebrate your body for all the amazing things it can do (like laugh, cry, hug, and feel) and to help you see that you are so much more than your body....

Item No. 9780711252424
$17.99
Lovely
Hong, Jess

Big, small, curly, straight, loud, quiet, smooth, wrinkly. Lovely explores a world of differences that all add up to the same thing: we are all lovely!

Item No. 9781939547378
$17.99
Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match
Brown, Monica

Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)

Mismatched and fabulous Marisol McDonald celebrates her Peruvian and Scottish heritage.
Bilingual English/Spanish.

Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are...

Item No. 9780892392353
$19.95
Mixed Me
Diggs, Taye

Mom and Dad say I'm a blend of dark and light:
"We mixed you perfectly, and got you just right."

Mike has awesome hair. He has LOTS of energy! His parents love him. And Mike is a PERFECT blend of the two of them.

Still, Mike has to answer LOTS of questions about being...

Item No. 9781250047199
$17.99
Museum of Odd Body Leftovers
Poliquin, Rachel

"Kids and adult alike will love poring over the different sections of this book and will delight in informing their friends and family members of the facts they've learned."--School Library Journal

A perfect book for...

Item No. 9781771647458
$18.95
Our Skin: A First Conversation about Race
Ralli, Jessica
Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.

Developed by...

Item No. 9780593382639
$9.99
Our Skin: A First Conversation about Race (Hardcover)
Ralli, Jessica
Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way. Now available as a hardcover picture...
Item No. 9780593519394
$14.99
Pepper and Me
Alemagna, Beatrice
A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2024
A Kirkus Best Picture Book of the Year
A Kirkus Best Picture-Book Conversation Starter of 2024
A 2024 Kids' Indie Next List pick
A Society of Illustrators 2024 Gold Medal Winner

From three-time NYT Best Illustrated creator of...

Item No. 9781662640506
$18.99
Senses at The Seashore
Shelley Rotner
Item No. 9780761328971
$24.95
Senses in the City
Shelley Rotner

See the tall buildings. Hear a train speeding by. Smell the nuts roasting at a street stand. The city stimulates all of our senses in exciting ways. This book is a wonderful discussion and activity starter for children who live in or visit the city, and also ideal for classroom use in studying...

Item No. 9780822575023
$24.95