![]() Love uses simple sentences and incorporates many pages that have no words at all. ![]() This is a beautifully illustrated book about love and acceptance. ![]() Knowing that not all families fully and openly love and accept each member, this is a much-needed story to show what it could and should look like. There are countless examples in our world where children and adults are shamed and outcast for not falling into the cisgendered, heterosexual narrative. “Julián Is a Mermaid”, written and illustrated by Jessica Love, provides a role model of a grandmother who loves and affirms her grandson and his exploration of his interests. Her actions thereafter send a powerful message to Julián and all of us in the LGBTQ+ family - you are accepted, loved and worth celebrating. What will she say? What will she do seeing Julián - a boy - dressed this way? He imagines himself as a mermaid and as soon as he gets home, dresses himself up just as spectacularly. ![]() While riding the subway, Julián is mesmerized by three people dressed as spectacular mermaids. ![]()
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