Jessica Love is an illustrator and Broadway actress. She has a BA in studio art from the University of California, as well as a graduate degree from Juilliard. Julian Is A Mermaid is her first picture book. Find her online at jessicalove.org/art.
A vibrant, witty celebration of tolerance.
*BBC Culture*
“celebratory and ground-breaking”
*The Sunday Times Culture/The Sunday Times Ireland*
“The stand-out title this month is a picture book, Julian Is a
Mermaid by Jessica Love. […] In the bravura feat of understated
storytelling, the richness of Julian’s free-floating imagination is
caught in images layered with colour, movement, muscle and life,
celebrating black and Latino experience. Julian invents a tail and
flowing hair, and Nana’s acceptance, as she accompanies him on a
wild parade of mermaids, will leave the reader filler with
joy.”
*The Guardian*
This is Jessica Love’s debut picture book, and every choice she
makes — the spare text, a color palette both muted and lively,
full-bleed pages that make even subway cars and apartment rooms
feel as expansive as the ocean — imbues the story with charm,
tenderness and humor…Alongside Julián, readers learn that anyone
can be a mermaid: All it takes is love and acceptance, a little
imagination and a big swishy tail.
*The New York Times Book Review*
Beautiful [...] Magnificent [...] Lovely [...] Magical [...]
Gorgeous
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