Lifetime sales over 17K Nearly 30 years in print Colorful, bold, DIVERSE new illustrations and text! Diversity and inclusion celebrated throughout this new edition to build early childhood acceptance of body types, sexualities, based on input from experts Strong sales track for Kathy Stinson’s previous picture books: The Dog Who Wanted to Fly, Harry and Walter, and her collaborations with violin-legend Joshua Bell The Man With the Violin and The Dance of the Violin in recent years, as well as the classic Red is Best, and more Text and illustrations were reviewed and revised on the basis of equity, diversity, and inclusion by j wallace skelton. j wallace skelton is an equity consultant, educator, writer, activist, and parent. j has consulted for organizations such as The Girl Guides of Canada, The Ontario Human Rights Commission, The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, and numerous schools and school boards. j’s commitment is to making more room and more possibilities for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, with a strong commitment to intersectionality, and a knowledge that we can only achieve justice together. j is a co-founder of Flamingo Rampant Press (feminist, racially diverse, LGBTQ+ picture books that are real stories). j is a PhD candidate at OISE at U of T, where j’s research is working with young children, using visual facilitation to imagine what queer and trans cultural education spaces could be like.