Pigletts by Clémentine Beauvais

Deemed the three ugliest girls in their school, Mireille, Astrid and Hakima embark on a cycling adventure together from the Bourg-en-Bresse to Paris for three different reasons.

Horrible boys exist. They do awful things like create ‘Pig Pageants’ to identify and shame girls they see as ugly with no regard for the effects of their actions. Fortunately, this isn’t a story about girls who lie down and take this kind of abuse without doing something about it. And what they do is cycle to Paris selling sausages, creating a media storm around the ‘three little pigletts’.

Funny and lighthearted, this book about the serious issues of body image and the social pressures to be beautiful and slim, throws the social rule book away. I just couldn’t make these girls ugly in my head because their roles in the story were so wonderfully packed with positive traits. Perhaps this proves that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

A book for promoting #doingyourownthing and #overcomingobstacles

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