Featured Review in “Snapshots of LGBTQ Kid Lit” by Professor Jennifer L. Miller, PhD., author of The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books,
June 23, 2021 at 3:42 am,
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Kerri Mullen’s Eli’s New Clothes (2020) is a sweetly illustrated story about a young girl named Chloe and her relationship to her favorite dolls. Chloe loves Elizabeth, Vanessa, and Caroline. She enjoys dressing them up in beautiful clothes and playing tea party. Unbeknownst to Chloe, when she leaves for school, her dolls come to life. This adds a generous dash of whimsy to the story and serves as a unique vehicle to explore gender expression and identification while positioning a child, Chloe, in a quasi-parental role vis-à-vis her dolls... Click to read more!