How beautiful all children are! If we set aside social conventions, locations, religions—everything that can shape, influence, or distort—children remain pure and beautiful.
This book is wonderfully illustrated by Bece Luna, showcasing diverse faces, each child unique, special, happy, and full of potential. How I want to believe that they will stay that way, that they won’t be broken by the world, won’t turn bitter or greedy.
For me, this book is a symbol of hope—a belief in miracles, in the possibility that our beautiful children can keep their light and souls intact. And, perhaps, make the world a better place.

This book celebrates human diversity with remarkable thoughtfulness and artistry. The vibrant illustrations showcase a rich tapestry of faces, features, and cultural elements that invite young readers to see themselves and their world reflected on each page. I watched my niece excitedly identify familiar features, "This one has my nose!" - making those vital connections that help build self-awareness and appreciation for diversity.
What sets this book apart is its skilful balance of wonderful images as well as the introduction of activities and things the characters features do, like "eyes crying" that help expand vocabulary.. The reflection exercises at the back transform a simple read into a springboard for meaningful conversations with young ones. Though brief, the story plants seeds for deeper discussions about identity, belonging, and variety in our human family.

Only feedback is the font in black is very small and easy to miss when getting the children to read alone.

Thanks NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Playful and vibrant, This Is My Wonderful Face shows just that: wonderfully unique faces doing and feeling all sorts of wonderful things! This is a perfect way to introduce children to the features of their own unique faces, and to acquaint them with faces that may be different from theirs. The illustrations are so expressive and fun, and I love that the back pages encourage the reader to do some reflecting on what they've seen in the books' faces.

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for providing me with a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was ADORABLE, I loved the artwork! It was such a visually stunning book with a great message! I will definitely want to add this to my kiddos permanent bookshelf when it is available, and would recommend it to others 100%!

"This Is My Wonderful Face" was a quick, and entertaining short story that teaches a message all young children should learn. Through a limited amount of on page text and vibrant illustrations, this story helps show that while there might be differences between each person, we all have similarities as well. The author goes through each of the five senses while highlighting different features we have on our faces - mouth, nose, eyes, ears, and surface area (cheeks, forehead). I think this story is a great way to help young kids learn about scent, smell, sight, hearing, and touch while also helping them learn diversity and loving all the different pieces of ourselves.

Additionally, I enjoyed that the illustrations were colorful and simple, as well as entertaining with the different facial expressions to match the actions of the words. The book ending with discussion/activities for kids to identify parts of their own faces and discuss differences and similarities between others was a great way to add additional educational moments even once the story was finished.

Overall, definitely recommend this for all preschool/kindergarten age classrooms and homes as it is so important to teach children that we all have differences and similarities and each of us our wonderful just as we are.

Overall, the book was well written and I did really enjoy it. Thank you for this advance reading copy!

What a wonderful books with so many different faces & features!

Faces come in different shapes, sizes, colors, & textures and it was beautiful to see so many represented in this book! I especially loved seeing the cochlear implant on an ear!

The illustrations were amazing and really steal the show in this book!

This is a great book for little ones learning about their face - the only critique I have is I wish there was a clearer pattern for each feature shown - perhaps an equal number of pages/feature statements for each.