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babayagareads's review against another edition
2.0
What's up with the taxidermy? That felt like it came out of nowhere.
arantzazureads's review against another edition
5.0
YES! Another picture book that challenges gender norms!!!! Yet, it's still sweet and fun, not a "message" story and not heavy-handed at all.
In short... Seamus is short. He tries a lot of funny, goofy, unviable approaches to being taller, but ultimately he finds a fun & creative way to get tall: using shoes with a bit of a heel!
I can already imagine some people going "children shouldn't wear heels, male or female, it'll mess up their back and sexualize them and blah blah blah." Guys, he's playing dress up! Little girls (and fyi, little boys, too) have been doing it for ages. Chill. It's a good story to take the gender-specificity out of using heeled shoes (which, by the way, were originally made for men to wear). And a fun way to induce giggles in a child. Super cute illustrations, too. That's it.
Want to raise less sexist, homophobic, & transphobic kids? Read them books like this one!
In short... Seamus is short. He tries a lot of funny, goofy, unviable approaches to being taller, but ultimately he finds a fun & creative way to get tall: using shoes with a bit of a heel!
I can already imagine some people going "children shouldn't wear heels, male or female, it'll mess up their back and sexualize them and blah blah blah." Guys, he's playing dress up! Little girls (and fyi, little boys, too) have been doing it for ages. Chill. It's a good story to take the gender-specificity out of using heeled shoes (which, by the way, were originally made for men to wear). And a fun way to induce giggles in a child. Super cute illustrations, too. That's it.
Want to raise less sexist, homophobic, & transphobic kids? Read them books like this one!
witchofthemountains's review against another edition
3.0
As one other reviewer said, this book was cute but ultimately forgettable. If it is notable that is because it features a little boy named Seamus who becomes tall but wearing his mother's high heels.... and the fact that it is a boy wearing high heels and nobody says anything. It's a non-issue - not something to be seen as brave or seen as weird. It just...is. More books underlining the fact that clothes don't have gender would be nice, but they still need to have something of a story.
It's a cute enough story and the illustrations look like something between crayon and water color which is interesting. And it has a nice pacing that will be easy to read out loud.
It's a cute enough story and the illustrations look like something between crayon and water color which is interesting. And it has a nice pacing that will be easy to read out loud.
raoionna's review against another edition
4.0
Rich gouache and colored pencil style illustrations tell the tale of a boy who comes to terms with his height.
rrrrj's review
3.0
I really liked that this was a story about a boy who likes high heels for purely practical reasons and there's zero content on other people's judgements about it, and the illustrations are stellar. There is, however, a weird conceit in the middle of the book that he owns a taxidermied zebra, among other animals? I dunno, that made me feel like maybe I had misread the tone.
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