{"id":42176,"date":"2022-01-10T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=42176"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:35:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T13:35:22","slug":"cech-spotlight-julian-is-a-mermaid-by-jessica-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2022\/01\/cech-spotlight-julian-is-a-mermaid-by-jessica-love\/","title":{"rendered":"CECH Spotlight: Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CECH Spotlight highlights recommended books in the the UC College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services (CECH) Library.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Julian is a Mermaid<\/em> \/ written and illustrated by Jessica Love \/ 2018<\/p>\n<p>On Saturdays, Julian and his Abuela go swimming at the community pool. One Saturday, Julian sees several women wearing beautiful mermaid dresses and is totally entranced. He decided he wants to be a mermaid himself, but what might his Abuela think of this?<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Love&#8217;s <em>Julian is a Mermaid<\/em> is an absolutely breathtaking picture book. It follows the story of a gender non-conforming child, which is a rare but very welcomed sight, who dreams of becoming a mermaid. This heartwarming story is full of vivid and magical illustrations that beautifully depict a child&#8217;s imagination and embrace diversity with a broad range of body types and skin tones. With each turn of a page, you will feel the anxiety, the love, and the acceptance Julian feels through subtle details in facial expressions and body language. Along with Julian, readers of all ages will learn that anyone can be a mermaid, and all it takes is acceptance, creative expression, and unconditional love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uclid.uc.edu\/record=b6701555~S39\"><em>Julian is a Mermaid<\/em>\u00a0is available from CECH Library<\/a>,\u00a0 as well as the OhioLINK and Search Ohio lending networks.<\/p>\n<p>Review by Sadie Matthews, CECH Library Student Assistant | Elementary Education, CECH 2023<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CECH Spotlight highlights recommended books in the the UC College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services (CECH) Library. Julian is a Mermaid \/ written and illustrated by Jessica Love \/ 2018 On Saturdays, Julian and his Abuela go swimming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2022\/01\/cech-spotlight-julian-is-a-mermaid-by-jessica-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[1291,1815,2048,2271,2272,2270,986,2063,1981,2023,2064],"class_list":["post-42176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cech","category-uclibraries","tag-book-review","tag-cech","tag-cech-book-review","tag-cech-child-ya","tag-cech-collections","tag-cech-library-blog","tag-childrens-literature","tag-collection-spotlight","tag-college-of-education-criminal-justice-and-human-services","tag-lgbtqia","tag-picture-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42180,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176\/revisions\/42180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}