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Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat

Cassandra Newbould

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An intersectional, feminist YA anthology from some of today's most exciting voices across a span of genres, all celebrating body diversity and fat acceptance through short stories.

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food, and music, and art. They are flirting and falling in love. They are loving to themselves and one another.

With stories that feature fat main characters starring in a multitude of settings, and written by authors who live these lives too, this is truly a unique collection that shows fat young people the representation they deserve.

With a foreword by Aubrey Gordon, creator of Your Fat Friend, and with stories by: Nafiza Azad, Chris Baron, Sheena Boekweg, Linda Camacho, Kelly deVos, Alex Gino, Claire Kann, amanda lovelace, Hillary Monahan, Cassandra Newbould, Francina Simone, Rebecca Sky, Monique Gray Smith, Renée Watson, Catherine Adel West, Jennifer Yen.

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Fat Forward Books\ \ Samantha Puc\ \ • Jun 8

Pride Recommendations 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Pride from #FatForwardBooks! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ If you’re looking for fat & LGBTQIA+ books to add to your TBR this summer, we’ve got you covered—and if you’re looking for even MORE fat & LGBTQIA+ books, be sure to check out our 2025 recs in our highlights!

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Fat Forward Books\ \ Samantha Puc\ \ • Jul 26 2025

Fat Forward Books: Disability Pride Recommendations

Happy Disability Pride Month! 🙌 Today marks 35 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law. This year especially, disabled people and our allies are fighting for our rights with everything we have—and as fervid readers and advocates for more and better intersectional disabled representation in media, we know how much of an impact reading disabled stories can make. 📖

In collaboration with author and fellow fat, disabled babe @laurelhollbooks, #FatForwardBooks presents 36 books with intersectional fat and disabled representation! 📚✨

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Fat Forward Books\ \ Samantha Puc\ \ • Aug 14 2024

Fat Liberation Month: YA & MG

Anti-fatness is ingrained in the way we think about bodies, but it doesn’t have to be. Books for young readers that feature characters with a variety of bodies are important not just for kids and adolescents to feel seen in the media they consume, but so they can appreciate diversity instead of mocking or repudiating it. If you want to add more body neutral content to the shelves of young readers in your life, start here! #FatLiberationMonth is the perfect time to pick up these titles.

YA & MG: 📚 The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall 📚 Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram 📚 The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado 📚 I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee 📚 No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding 📚 The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow 📚 The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora 📚 Every Body Shines edited by Cassandra Newbould 📚 Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy

Picture Books: 📚 A Kids Book About Body Image by Rebecca Alexander 📚 Big by Vashti Harrison 📚 Your Body Is Awesome by Sigrun Danielsdottir and Bjork Bjarkadottir 📚 Everybody Has a Body by Molli Jackson Ehlert and Lorian Tu

Stay tuned for more fat book recs in other genres and age groups, and check our stories for a refresh of what we recommended last year! ✨ You can shop everything via @bookshop_org at the link in our Story and bio.

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