Author(s): Kanak Shashi

LGBTQI+ | Early Experiences & Issues

Guthli is everyone's favorite - a happy child who likes to draw fairies, swing, and cycle. But then one day she is told not to wear her sister's frilly frock that she loves, but her "own" boy's clothes. And things erupt. "Why do you keep saying I'm a boy when I'm a girl?" she asks her mother. In that simple question lies all the bewilderment that children like Guthli feel, who don't seem to others what they know they are.

The gentle story about gender identity tells it like it is, reality echoed in the flatness of the vibrant cutout illustrations.