“For as long as I can remember, my favorite color has been pink. (My second-favorite color is silver and my third-favorite color is green.)” Narrator Jazz’s list of favorites goes on to include dancing and back flips and drawing and, especially, mermaids. She likes wearing high heels and gowns or jumping on the trampoline with her best friends Casey and Samantha. But, she notes, she’s not quite like them. “I have a girl brain but a boy body. This is called transgender. I was born this way!” Elementary-age Jazz’s matter-of-fact account of growing up transgender is upbeat overall, but reflects back on her frustration when she was younger, before her parents understood she was a girl, and how, even at the start of the current school year, the teachers treated her like a boy, while some kids still tease her. “Then I remember that the kids who get to know me usually want to be my friend.” A brief afterword tells more about coauthor Jazz Jennings, now thirteen, and the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation for children born with Gender Dysphoria. (Ages 3–9)

The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere

"This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans or not. I wish I had had a book like this when I was a kid struggling with gender identity questions. I found it deeply moving in its simplicity and honesty."—Laverne Cox (who plays Sophia in “Orange Is the New Black”)

From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers.