I Am Jazz

The story of a transgender child based on the real life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere.From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl s brain in a boy s body She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn t feel like herself in boys clothing This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way Jazz s story is based on her real life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers. Free Read [ I Am Jazz ] author [ Jessica Herthel ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Okay, issues.I think it s great that they made this book Truly I just have a few issues with it 1 Jazz is not white So don t make her white Why the fuck is she white in this book 2 Please don t use terms like boy body and girl clothes Please Don t enforce the binary and gender stereotypes on small children.Okay, those are my main problems with this book.Firstly, making a non white person white in this book invalidates her story to an extent Jazz is an activist who has greatly inc Okay, issues.I think it s great that they made this book Truly I just have a few issues with it 1 Jazz is not white So don t make her white Why the fuck is she white in this book 2 Please don t use terms like boy body and girl clothes Please Don t enforce the binary and gender stereotypes on small children.Okay, those are my main problems with this book.Firstly, making a non white person white in this book invalidates her story to an extent Jazz is an activist who has greatly increased trans awareness to the general public it is very important to note...I am Jazz is a story about a girl who says she has a girl s brain and a boy s body It s a true story, and pretty inspiring It s for kids to help understand the issue, andimportantly, to understand and accept kids like this in their classes I fully recognize it is not safe for such kids in almost all of the world, but in my neighborhood, and in my world and family, this story is a pretty familiar one and one they have learned is just part of life.Chicago is a big blue city where transg I am Jazz is a story about a girl who says she has a girl s brain and a boy s body It s a true story, and pretty inspiring It s for kids to help understand the issue, andimportantly, to understand and accept kids like this in their classes I fully recognize it is not safe for such kids in almost all of the world, but in my neighborhood, and in my world and family, this story is a pretty familiar one and one they have learned is just part of life.Chicago is a big blue city where transgender politics ...I m really glad this book exists and I hope it opens the door forkids books with trans characters What s great about it is that it s clearly one girl s story, so it s not universalizing her experience She s just saying what it s like for her, which gives kids who are reading it a chance to think, what about me Is this my story too and to identify with some things and not with others Some reviewers criticized her explanation I have a girl brain and a boy body I understand that it I m really glad this book exists and I hope it opens the door forkids books with trans characters What s great about it is that it s clearly one girl s story, so it s not universalizing her experience She s just saying what it s like for her, which gives kids who are reading it a chance to think, what about me Is this my story too and to identify with some things and not with others Some reviewers criticized her explanation I have a girl brain and a boy body I understand that it does not address the complexity of gender and how we approach and categorize ourselves and each other But it works for Jazz, and this is her story I am a trans guy and I hate saying I m female bodied because in my brain I m male, so no matter what my body looks like, to me it s a male body Period But this book isn t about me And sometimes concessions mus...My only problem with the book is one of the early pages where Jazz is talking about how she has always felt different she didn t like firetrucks and superheroes and fire trucks or whatever, but preferred ballerinas and princesses If they had just left out that page, I would have given the book another star As it is, a book about acceptance of different gender identities accidentally reinforces gender stereotypes The way the book is written, Jazz s preference for dance over superheroes is giv My only problem with the book is one of the early pages where Jazz is talking about how she has always felt different she didn t like firetrucks and superheroes and fire trucks or whatever, but preferred ballerinas and princesses If they had just left out that page, I would have given the book a...This is the true story of Jazz She has a girls brain with a boys body A very sensitive subject told with great respect and gently for young children.This book is one of the highest rated banned book of 2015 due to it being about a transgender child I personally loved the book because I think it is important to teach children at a young age about differences and how we should treat other people even if they are different...This is a tricky book to write The idea of gender identity for a child is not something easy to explain not that it s really that much easier for adults I think the author did the best she could to get the idea across on a level that would make sense to another young child But, as other reviewers have said, the examples of why she must be a girl weren t quite solid enough and I could see them confusing some younger readers who are comfortable with their gender but don t like the things that This is a tricky book to write The idea of gender identity for a child is not something easy to explain not that it...A book whose moment has arrived Sweet and simple, it still treats gender as a binary understandable, since the idea of a gender spectrum may be challenging for kids still in the concrete thinking stage , but sensitively explains the bare bones of what it means to be transgender ...This book is on the banned book list this year Every year I celebrate banned book week by reading a book off the yearly list At our library we like to have the freedom to read I thought this book was well spoken and tackled perhaps a confusing subject for kids, very nicely and respectfully I didn t particularly like the stereotypical society boy stuff and girl stuff bits, though I felt it still was a good introduction Ashley It was nicely illustrated, but after reading some reviews it...

• English
• 07 November 2017
Jessica Herthel
• Hardcover
• 32 pages
• 0803741073
• Jessica Herthel
• I Am Jazz