Why Create A Gender Neutral Picture Book?

Maya Christina Gonzalez, award-winning author and illustrator, shares why her newest book is gender neutral.

You may or may not notice something different about my new book, ‘Call Me Tree’. Nowhere in the story are boy/girl pronouns used. No ‘he’ or ‘she’ anywhere! I found it easy to write this way because that’s how I think of kids, as kids, not boy kids or girl kids.

Find out more at Lee & Low Books.

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