The Name I Call Myself

Description:


Age range 5 to 9

A sweet and moving picture book depicting
Ari's gender journey from childhood to adolescence in order to discover who
they really are.

Meet
Ari, a young person who doesn't like to be called by their birth name Edward: "When I think of the name Edward, I imagine old
kings who snore a lot." Throughout this beautiful and engaging picture book, we
watch Ari grow up before our very eyes as they navigate the ins and outs of their
gender identity; we see how, as a child, they prefer dolls and princess movies,
and want to grow out their hair, though their father insists on cutting it
short, "because that's what boys look like." At nine, they play hockey but wish
they could try on their mother's dresses; at fifteen, they shave their face,
hoping to have smooth skin like the girls. At sixteen, they want to run away,
especially from their father, who insists, "You're a boy, so you have to act
like one." Who will Ari become?

Moving from age six to adolescence, The Name I Call Myself touchingly
depicts Edward's tender, solitary gender journey to Ari: a new life
distinguished and made meaningful by self-acceptance and unconditional love.


Full-colour throughout.