This book normalizes AND celebrates the beauty of all bodies without needing to explain or justify any bodies (as other children’s books on diversity have been prone to do); the bodies in this book just ARE, and that’s beautiful.

Seeing bodies of all sorts of sizes and shapes with freckles, scars, and imperfections is a tonic for today's often-airbrushed images of perfection posted on social media and in magazines.

There’s a story Tyler Feder says she’s told in countless interviews, but she’s going to tell it again anyway. Much of Feder’s work today is about making all kinds of bodies and people more visible and normalizing a more accurate depiction of society as it truly is, rather than focusing on one small slice of it. More importantly, in a book about body positivity, the drawings represent people as they are in real life, “tall, short, wide, or narrow. Some readers may be shocked and even offended by a few of the body parts on display here, but those who are in agreement with Feder's message will appreciate her visual honesty.

All bodies are treated with dignity, including bodies that are not routinely portrayed positively like fat, trans, nonbinary, disabled, hairy bodies, etc. 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.Our downloadable pack has been created with a series of fun, body image boosting activities for kids. begins this engaging picture book, extolling the variety and splendor of human bodies in gentle, singsong text. I get the point they are trying to make that people come in all sizes, but I could but help having a creepy feeling the whole way through. Check out all of the different types of people out there in this very colorful community that is DEFINITELY a lot like your own.