Like a miniature Scarlett O’Hara, he transforms the window curtain into a long skirt, tying its end to resemble a mermaid’s tail. When Julián’s grandmother goes to take a bath, an idea alights to his enchanted mind: He sheds his boy-clothes and fashions a headdress out of a fern. “Abuela, I am also a mermaid,” he tells his grandmother shyly, the way one whispers a closely guarded innermost truth. One day, on the subway ride home, he glimpses three beautiful women dressed as mermaids. Whenever Julián goes to the swimming pool with his grandmother, he dreams of being a mermaid. “If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.” Both the vulnerability and the courage of that world-telling are in direct proportion to our sense of otherness - to how far the teller diverges from society’s centuries-old, dogma-proscribed, limiting ideas about the correct way to be a human being.Ī lovely celebration of the courage to tell the world who you are comes in Julián Is a Mermaid ( public library) by Jessica Love - a sweet story of loving acceptance and the jubilant inner transformation that takes place when one is welcomed to be and to dream beyond society’s narrow templates of being and dreaming. “You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you,” James Baldwin argued two decades later in his fantastic forgotten conversation about identity with anthropologist Margaret Mead. Cummings offered in his advice to aspiring artists.
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 0.4 x 10.“To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E.E. But what will Abuela think about the mess he makes - and even more importantly, what will she think about how Julián sees himself? Mesmerizing and full of heart, Jessica Love’s author-illustrator debut is a jubilant picture of self-love and a radiant celebration of individuality.
When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he’s seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the world. Julián Is a Mermaid Hardcover – Apby Jessica Love
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