Other opposite pairs include soft (a baby clutching a stuffed bear) and sharp (an elderly woman with lavender hair, a nose ring, and a spike-covered leather jacket), and spreads featuring arms and legs showcase bodies with tattoos, freckles, vitiligo, and prosthetic limbs. A young white woman in a goth ensemble represents black, while a brown-skinned woman with flowing white hair and a garland of flowers signifies white. Lovely is different, she writes as a girl with heterochromia looks at herself in the mirror. She answers her own question by introducing a cavalcade of individuals young and old, with an emphasis on individual. Palacio NY Times What is lovely? asks newcomer Hong at the outset of a book that celebrates seeing the beauty in everyone. As the song says, teach your children well - or better yet, inspire them well.-R.J. Stompy works so well: Illustrated with four sets of legs - hairy legs wearing fancy red stilettos, prosthetic legs playing soccer, black legs in pink ballet slippers, and fishnet-stockinged legs in punk-rock platform boots - it shows the multifarious world in all its glory.Tolerance. As with any successful picture book, the art in Lovely doesnt just illustrate the text, it expands it. On other spreads, we see a tall woman walking a short dog (tall) opposite a short man walking with a tall dog (short), and a red-haired girl with a fluffy cat opposite a straight-haired girl with a sleek snake.

On the facing page, the word white accompanies a black woman with white hair. The word Black is next to a white woman wearing black clothes. Then comes a series of illustrative plays on words. A girl with one blue eye and one brown eye looks directly at the viewer.

Lovely explores a world of differences that all add up to the same thing: we are all lovely! From the Back Cover A celebration of diversity, Lovely shows how were all beautiful, lovable, and full of love - lovely! Review Quotes Lovely, a debut picture book written and illustrated by Jess Hong, is a lively ode to being different. Book Synopsis Big, small, curly, straight, loud, quiet, smooth, wrinkly. A beautiful celebration of diversity!-Julie Downing, award-winning author-illustrator (Mozart Tonight).

About the Book This Olovely book promotes the simple message that we are all different and that is lovely.

Lovely by Jess Hong