Calvin
Author(s) | JR FordVanessa Ford |
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Illustrator(s) | Kayla Harren |
Age Group | 4-8 |
Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
ISBN | 978-0593108673 |
Year | 2021 |
Calvin has always been a boy, even if the world sees him as a girl. He knows who he is in his heart and in his mind but he hasn't yet told his family. Finally, he can wait no longer: "I'm not a girl," he tells his family. "I'm a boy--a boy in my heart and in my brain." Quick to support him, his loving family takes Calvin shopping for the swim trunks he's always wanted, back-to-school clothes and a new haircut that helps him look and feel like the boy he's always known himself to be. As the first day of school approaches, he's nervous and the "what-ifs" gather up inside him. But as his friends and teachers rally around him and he tells them his name, all his "what-ifs" begin to melt away.