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Oh, the pain of being different, especially when you’re a kid - when you want nothing more than to fit in, be “normal”, be part of the crowd. If the kids in your life are starting to hit that age where they’re longing to just be like everybody else, I can highly recommend Freckleface Strawberry.
Written by a real freckleface strawberry, actress and first-time children’s author Julianne Moore, and illustrated artfully by LeUyen Pham, Freckleface Strawberry is a lively and cute (but not cutesy) new picture book. It’s full of cheerful drawings, comic book-style dialogue bubbles and easily accessible vocabulary and details all the humorous things one little red-headed girl will try in order to make her freckles disappear. But what happens when she succeeds isn’t exactly what she’d hoped for – now nobody recognizes her!
It’s a charming story about learning to accept differences and perhaps value the parts of you that make you unique: “After all, the things that make you different also make you you,” claims the inside front cover, and who can really argue with that?
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Freckleface Strawberry