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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.

Compiled by Samantha Puc (@theverbalthing)

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Fat Liberation Month: YA & MG

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Samantha Puc (she/they) is a fat, disabled, lesbian writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on LGBTQ+ and fat representation in pop culture. Their writing has been featured on Polygon, Refinery29, Bitch Media, them., and elsewhere. Samantha is the Community Voices Blog Editor at NAAFA, the co-creator of Fatventure Mag, and a contributor to the award-winning Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. They graduated in May 2025 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction from The New School. When Samantha is not working or writing, she loves spending time with her cats, reading, and perfecting her grilled cheese recipe.

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