A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Written by Marlon Bundo with Jill Twiss Illustrated by EG Keller

Chronicle Books fights for a lot of rights. Born in 1967, it does it with its books, words, colors, adding  beauty in this world. Original, clever, this publishing house makes the difference also regarding social thematic.

This time protest passes through A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo written by Marlon Bundo with Jill Twiss Illustrated by EG Keller.
This children's book was born in collaboration with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, sponsored by The Trevor Project, an association born for preventing suicides in the young LGBTQ's community and for helping  people. Last Week Tonight's proceeds will be donated to the Trevor Project and AIDS united. This one is an association born for fighting against AIDS thanks to policies of prevention, access to care, harm reduction and advocacy.
The CEO of AIDS united Jesse Milan Jr "By celebrating Marlon Bundo's differences, the book's authors have created a powerful tool for teaching young people the value of diversity."

I start to tell you that this children's book is absolutely adorable, cute, sweet, tender. Illustrations are amazing and they penetrate the adorable soul of this sunny animal.
This one is the story of Marlon Bundo. He lives alone, he doesn't share his life with anyone. He lived in Indiana but then the family afforded to Washington D.C.
One day, going out he meets a beautiful, brown rabbit called Wesley and the two discover a lot of things in common ending up to love each other.

Their happiness with a proper marriage sounds improbable. Someone will try to ruin their happiness, although the rest of animals all united will sort out the problem.  The love-story between Marlon and Wesley will end very happily.

I suggest this book to all that parents who want to start to introduce to their children a thematic like the one of homosexuality and marriages between couples of the same sex. It's crucial and important that all children would be prepared to this reality, because it is becoming always more known and always more real in every country. Marriages included.

Questions will be many, children are curious, and you must be prepared.
First of all you should explain what sex is, why it exists.
Then, proceedingly gradually, why sometimes someone in the body of a male, feels that he is more close to the brain, body of a woman, and so feeling special sentiments more for another man similar to him than not to a woman, because substantially he couldn't love a woman as she would deserves, because he feels he is a woman himself, falling in love for a man that will be a woman to him; it will be an intriguing conversation because love is not just sex but feelings, sentiments in grade to make the difference.

I thank Chronicle Books for the physical copy of this children's book.

Anna Maria Polidori