Oh, what a delightful, colourful and cute kids' LBGTQ+ fairy tale picture book!
I'm not usually into animal stories - much less the often disingenuous and insincere 'animals as metaphor in place of social issues' stories - but this is lovely, infectious and irresistible.
Among its many adorable features are rainbows, an owl, a bear, a lizard wizard (heh), dragons, unicorns, mermaids, princesses, and a ladybug on every page. The rhyming is adorable, too.
(How clever, also, that no gendered pronouns are assigned to Hopp the frog throughout the book.)
'I Am NOT a Prince' - one of the best, most charming LBGTQ+ children's picture books out there, alongside 'A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo', 'And Tango Makes Three', 'Prince & Knight', 'My Magic Family', 'My Shadow is Pink', ''Twas the Night Before Pride', 'Steven Universe: The Answer', 'The Big Day', 'Cinder & Ella', 'Maiden & Princess', 'Heather Has Two Mummies', 'Molly's Family', 'Love, Violet', 'Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn', 'Marley's Pride', and 'ABC Pride'.
Anyone can be a hero. And a hero for self-acceptance, self-love, and pride.
And I think I really like frogs. They're cute, aren't they?
Free cheers for diverse princesses! Hip hop hooray!
Hops away!
Final Score: 5/5
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