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Jamie
£7.20
What happens when you don’t have a fairy godmother to grant your every wish? Jamie doesn’t. So she finds her own way to go to the ball. A story of determination, hard work and transition. With some clever mice and a pumpkin car, join Jamie as she becomes… Jamie.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Oliver Pike (19 Nov. 2015) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 40 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0993340733 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0993340734 |
| Dimensions | 21 x 0.3 x 21 cm |
by Essex throughandthrough
Just like Olly Pike’s other books, Jamie is a story that aims to normalise the idea that some people are LGBT+. It does this using fun illustrations, relate-able characters and appropriate language. In Jamie’s case, Jamie is a character who, through the help of the princess’s ball, Jamie finds an identity that brings his true self to the fore. You / your child doesn’t have to be LGBT+ to enjoy Olly’s stories – you just have to like stories!
by Musicals Fan
I really enjoyed this book (even if I did struggle to read one of the pages: I find that black text on a coloured background is hard to read!).
The book is funny and very positive: I loved how Jamie fixes everything. She is a very positive role model for girls.
It’s Jamie who solves all the own problems without the aid of a fairy (who helps her two spoilt and lazy older brothers).
It’s a Cinderella story for the 21 century: Jamie gets to go to the after an incredibly positive trans-formation!
by Mel L.
Superb book for introducing the idea of not feeling right in the body you were born into and finding your way to being yourself..
Jamie doesn’t have a fairy godmother to help her to grant her every wish, so she finds her own way to the ball (with a little help from the mice), making her own clothes, creating her own transportation and cutting her hair so she finally feels right. Jamie has never felt like a girl, so he is delighted to attend the palace ball and fall in love with the princess. He is honest with her about who he is and she falls in love too. Jamie loves the fact that he no longer needs to wear a disguise and he can be himself.
This is another fantastic book by Olly Pike – just great for introducing younger readers to the concept of gender and being true to how you feel inside. Left me with a warm glow!
by Amazon Customer
This book is awful. I would only ever share it with my child as an exercise in spotting sexism and lesbophobia.
It promotes the idea that humans can somehow change sex, which is of course impossible.
It associates the stereotypes of short hair, wearing a suit and liking women with “being a boy/man” rather than telling impressionable young readers that girls can like/do/wear all these things.
When Jamie becomes a “he” she is liberated from being bullied by her brothers and gets to have a fun time at the party etc. It just promotes the message that being a girl is rubbish and that rather than considering how much this might have to do with societal expectations based on sex, the answer is to buy into the delusion that if one likes “masculine” things one is actually a boy.
Given that we are putting girls with these feelings on puberty blockers and encourage the damage of healthy breast tissue via binding and surgery I find this book to be quite dangerous.
by Flo
Oh for goodness sake! Stop perpetuating this utter nonsense to children. “the person that Jamie always was inside” has potential to damage children, my boy has been, in turn, a bunny rabbit, a dog and a chicken. He wasn’t always a bunny inside….