Reviews for I look like a girl

The average rating for I look like a girl based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-05 00:00:00 Elena Aladina Can't evaluate quite fairly, because my only experience with the book is a shaky video on youtube. I like it until the end, but like the other reviewers I do agree that some girls might still like princess things, indoor things, and that's ok too as we're not all wild beasts inside. Still, it seems like an attractive book, and could be empowering for the right audience.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-15 00:00:00 Patrick Garcia I was so excited about this book from the cover and the blurb ("In her imagination, a young girl assumes many shapes and forms, from dolphin and condor to wolf and jaguar."). The illustrations turn out to introduce a different girl for each animal -- which was unexpected, given the blurb, but it does mean that girls of a variety of ethnicities get represented. I'm really over the anti-femme/princess rhetoric, so was really jarred out of the book by "Throw out those glass slippers/ / Send the fairies to sleep. / No prince is waiting for me." near the end. I get that it's rejecting heteronormative women-need-men narratives, but, like, girls can have glass slippers and have princes waiting for them AND be tigers, dolphins, wild horses, jaguars, condors, wolves, tigers. And the ending feels a little trite -- "I just need the forest / the mesa, the jungle, / the stars dreaming over the sea. // to free what is wild, / in the heart of a child--- / so I can be me, just me." Partly, admittedly, I've never felt a great connection to The Great Outdoors, so I am not the target audience for the book. I want to like this book, but I feel like (to steal a term from gymnastics) it doesn't really stick the landing.