This is a cheerful, empowering book written by a lady who tells us she was the tallest in her class and felt self-conscious. Later through sports and hiking she learned that a tall body had advantages. By showing us line drawings (by a Brazilian lady) of all sorts of girls with all sorts of differences and abilities, she tells girls to celebrate their growing body whatever shape, colour or form.

Midway through, we get messages that anyone can feel down at times but finding a positive quote, journaling (bad idea if you have siblings who would sneak a read), learning art or photography, or talking to someone, can help. Well, these days it should help to talk to someone; when I was growing up, children were not supposed to be capable of being bored or depressed or isolated. Few adults would listen to children and you would just be told to be quiet and do your homework. Now the wider community is much more aware of the difficulties young people face while living the necessarily restricted life of a pre-teen. I hope that a parent or teacher giving this book to a child will take the message from it that they have a part to play in helping young people to grow up healthy, positive and confident.

I like the overall positivity and inclusivity of this book and the drawings. The age I would suggest is pre-teen, 10 up, to young teen.
I downloaded an e-ARC from Net Galley. This is an unbiased review.

Love Your Body by Australian author Jessica Sanders is an empowering little book for girls. It conveys an important message to young women about self-love and self-care. I like the list of things to do when you're feeling down and think the illustrations are wonderful. I just wish this book had been around when my own daughter was younger! With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my copy.

The title says it all. Love Your body has a simple specific message for girls to love their bodies and themselves. We are all unique. The illustrations on every page feature many girls with all different body types and of different races. This book is empowering individuality and encourages readers to not buy in to the stereotyped beauty often embraced by society as perfect. Everyone is perfect as they are.

This books reads like one aimed at young readers, but the subject may be more suited for those that are approaching the difficult teenage years. It's not a plotted story, more a celebration. It's never too early to teach children to love themselves as they are and to celebrate life. This book is a step in that direction.

I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Love your body by Jessica Sanders is a must read for girls of all ages. A perfect birthday gift for a young lady. Carol Rossetti's illustrations are beautifully unique and towards to back there are links for free printable and activities.

A very important book for young girls infact all age groups.Body shaming so common in society that it's considered normal.But the way it effects a girl's personality,it can't be explained.
So basically this book gives the girls confidance on how to be comfortable in their own skin.

This was a beautifully written book exploring diversity of females and those that identify as female. There is diversity with race and culture and body shape and interests. It opens up the world to explore the concept of loving yourself and your own body. It teaches confidence, but you don’t feel overwhelmed with information and cheesy overused messages. This is adaptable for girls from elementary through high school even. Great messages, a quick read, and promoting love for all bodies and people.

I received an electronic copy from Quarto Publishing Group through NetGalley.
Sanders has created a go-to book for young girls and women to support positive body images. She emphasizes that bodies come in all shapes and sizes and each is unique and terrific. The illustrations support her points as they show a broad spectrum of young girls and women. Each is unique and none are shamed for how they look. This is a critical message to share with girls and young women as it honors individual talents and abilities along with body styles.
It's a bit wordy at times but the message comes through.

Wow, this was amazing. I want to buy hundreds of copies and give them to all the women I know. Although this book is short, it comes with such an important message: that no matter your differences, your body is beautiful and strong. It gives such important information on self-care and simply loving yourself. I'd recommend this to every woman.

5/5 stars for everything in this book. Realistic body representation? Check! Inspirational themes? Yes, absolutely! Entertaining and engaging text? That's an understatement!

Did you know that acupuncture in your foot can heal pain in your ear? Everything is connected, just like this book teaches. LOVE YOUR BODY not only promotes body positivity to preteens and teens, but inspires confidence, open mindsets, and jubilance as an aftermath of learning to love yourself. This is the feature that stuck out most to me - if I realize that I am wonderful the way I am, my mental health will improve in other ways. There's nothing else I can say about LOVE YOUR BODY - it is thematic, motivational, inclusive, and thought-provoking. I believe this book can solve the problem many young girls AND boys are facing!

I recommend this book to primarily preteens and teenagers, but in reality, anybody can learn how to love and accept themselves from this book! Also, don't assume only females experience self esteem problems. Boys also need body-positive influences, and LOVE YOUR BODY supplies it!

So empowering and such a fantastic message, especially for young women!

I want to give a copy to every to every woman I know! Yes, we are all different but we all deserve to feel good about the skin we're in!

Amen and amen!

Thank you to Jessica Sanders, the publisher and NetGalley for giving me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Review to be posted on my blog/goodreads tomorrow.

A body positive books for kids! I love it! I am not a kid but I can tell you that even I need a book like this, my body positivity varies day by day but generally... not really healthy. :( So I was eager to read this book and see what we would see and read.

And this was a very sweet and positive read. I loved seeing the kids grow up to teens and then to adults. I love the diversity in bodies and colours. I was thinking this would just be a book about kids and how they could stay body positive but instead it features older girls/women. So while I still would recommend it to kids I think I would recommend it to an older age group than I had originally planned.

I loved that we get tips on how to get more body positive, how to do selfcare, what you can do with your body, to listen closely to it. Some of the tips aren't going to be working at the moment in stay at home situations, but many still work now, and the rest will work when the world is back to normal.
Sadly, I know the tips don't work for me, or only work temporarily. I still keep trying, but I do wonder if I ever will have the positivity these girls in this book have. I would love to.

There are also resources and help lines. While the US (as expected) gets a lot of info, I am happy that they link to their site. But, I have to say, yeah, that turned pretty useless in the end. Just the big English speaking countries (US, Australia, Canada, UK) are featured. I know you may not be able to do all the countries in the world, but you can do some more effort in it. Pick a couple of countries per continent and post help for that.

The illustrations are gorgeously done and I loved seeing them. Again, I love the diversity and how the illustrator captured all the girls in their fierceness and uniqueness.

All in all, this was a great book full of positivity. Again the only minus point is the fact the helplines don't extend to more countries over the world. I would have loved to see that for once.

This is such a lovely book and will be perfect for small group work or just to have in the classroom. The illustrations are beautiful and depict women and girls of all shapes, sizes, colours and abilities. There are practical, easy suggestions for how to care for yourself physically, socially, emotionally and mentally. There are also websites at the back, which are great too.

5 out of 5 stars

This book is so important to girls and even women can take something from this.

The explanation of the difference in women’s bodies is beautiful. Giving this book to girls who don’t understand why they don’t look like other ‘pretty girls’.

I would of loved something like this. This also is not only for girls I believe that any child will see that there’s hairy women, there’s ‘manly’ women and women who’s body aren’t like the ones in the movies.

This was beautiful.

I appreciate the message of Love Your Body: you are unique! This inclusive and diverse "girl power" picture book gives examples for offering yourself loving kindness as you mature into a teen. It has such a positive message and also includes resources listed at the back for the reader to seek out help with a reminder that "you are not alone". It would be an excellent resource for health classes in upper elementary school or in a counselor's office.

I rate this book 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4. Even though I love the theme and message of this picture book, the reason I didn't rate this as 5-stars is two-fold. While it is inclusive of all shapes, ethnicities, and sexual identities of girls, it is not inclusive of trans youth who identify as female. Also, the book is written like one meant for younger readers (grades 2-3), but the subject matter is more relatable to those in grades 4 and up, so I wasn't completely sure who the target audience is. I think a graphic novel format would have had a bigger impact and would draw in more independent and older readers.

I was gifted this book courtesty of NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review.

I saw the cover of this book and I knew I needed to have it for my two daughters. Honestly, I needed to be reminded of the author’s message in this book too.

Jessica Sanders does a beautiful job writing the importance of self-love and acceptance. I appreciated the author’s note in the beginning; and my favorite quote was:

“There is no size, ability, or color that is perfect. What makes you different makes you, you-and you are amazing!”

Jessica explains to her readers that a body is more than just it’s appearance and gives excellent practices to incorporate in your daily routine that will help you grow towards self-love and acceptance.

My daughters and I loved the message, as well as the illustrations. Carol Rossatti’s illustrations portray various skin tones and body types that went so well with the author’s words and overall message.

A lovely little picture-book about self-love, acceptance and self-care! This book has an important message, and I love the diversity of the characters drawn in it! Fantastic to show bodyhair too, since it is not done nearly enough! I was also glad this included some disabilities, although I wish maybe it had included even more pictures./examples of them, especially the group drawings before the page about disability. The thing I appreciated the most in this is the good advice about self-care and self-love, as well as explaining that if it does not work, you should talk to someone!

I thought that this was a great book

The images are lovely and I loved the message that was told throughout the book – you are unique and to accept and love yourself exactly as you are – it was a very positive book

It is 5 stars from me – very highly recommended and a great message to drive home

Wow. Just wow. I am speechless. This book is so perfect, illustrations and all. There are so many things that I loved about it.

Although a little wordy I think it was necessary! Self-esteem is a huge issue for women today, and more importantly some parents are not able to instill in their daughters the confidence that every woman should have. This book certainly does the job for those who can’t.

Acknowledging the difference, and importance, between self-care and self-love was something I enjoyed. Both extremely important factors together and apart.

This book is moving and certainly the new standard for young girls. How I wished a book like this existed for me when I was a young girl, and even a teenager. The messages conveyed in this book honestly would have been important for me to know and read at age 16. Reminding a young girl to love her body, the skin she is in, is honestly one of the most important messages today. I absolutely can not wait to give a copy of this book to each and every single important young lady in my life.



Many thanks to Quarto Publishing Group and Netgalley for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest opinion

I seriously loved this book. The illustrations were entertaining and truly showed that they were trying to show. What I loved most about this book though was the explanation and examples of self-care and self-love, focused on teaching young women these things at an early age. I would highly recommend this to friends with young daughters as a way to teach these important things in a way that is also fun and entertaining.

As an eating disorder survivor, I wish that this book had existed when I was young. This beautiful, thoughtful, and engaging book is perfect for every young person, but especially for young women growing up in the age of Facetune and Instagram celebrities. I can't wait to buy this for the young women in my life!