She read it on the ride home, with her phone flashlight in the backseat of the car, and gave it a resounding 10 out of 10 stars!

The book goes beyond physical descriptors we are born with, such as our skin tone; it includes the *choices* we make regarding our appearance as well, showing that we can not only love the bodies we are given, but we can also proudly claim them. There are no central characters in this book, but the illustrations are full of people joyously participating in diverse community settings.The last bit of the author bio: “Tyler has a round tummy, fuzzy eyebrows, and a mole on her left arm with a little hair growing out of it.

A bustling celebration of body positivity that lovingly features bodies, skin, and hair of all kinds . For this challenge, she let her synesthesia determine the hue of the corresponding ballerina’s outfit.Feder has taken body image and made it accessible to small children but BODIES ARE COOL is reminder to adults reading to them that we have to push so far past the image media has tried to persuade us is ideal for so long. I had moments while reading where a characteristic I share was mentioned and I sort of blinked, realizing that I had maybe never? And with each letter, she’d lean into her grapheme-color synesthesia — a phenomenon where people’s perception of letters and numbers becomes associated with particular colors. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Sincere but not sappy, this bittersweet and affecting meditation on the author’s experiences also serves as a heartfelt celebration of her mother’s life.