silvysartfulness:hrhthebirthdayprincess:alwaysscreechingbasement: This screenshotted thread by sensi
silvysartfulness:hrhthebirthdayprincess:alwaysscreechingbasement: This screenshotted thread by sensitivity reader elainesoup with recommendations for picture books with fat representation can be read on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/elainesoup/status/1450176697156866051 Speaking as a (currently retired) illustrator of children’s books, this is so important! One of the things I’ve gotten the most positive feedback on is how I designed the love interest Princess in a queer retelling of Cinderella that I worked on:She’s big, she’s brown, she’s radiant. And people loved her.Here’s another diverse crowd I had tons of fun with, from a gender-swapped Beauty and the Beast book from the same series:Both the transformed-back Beast and Beauty’s mom are big women, but of different body types. There are some bigger guys in the background, too, and people with big natural hair, sleek hair, no hair, tons of different sorts of bodies, skin tones, genders - and they’re all fucking gorgeous.I think these books are only currently published in Swedish, but I really hope the publisher will translate and release them internationally one day. -- source link