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• Commended for OLA Best Bets 2021 (Canada)

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The strongest element of the book is the gripping and gorgeous illustrations, which capture Marie-Noelle's emotions and magnify the spare dialogue and descriptions. ... A touching story about love, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. * Kirkus Reviews * [W]ell told and beautifully illustrated ... a book that needs to be read. * CM Review of Materials * [A] raw, cathartic debut graphic memoir. * Publishers Weekly * Hebert's illustrations in graphite pencil ... are not only breathtaking but also searing. ...My Body in Pieces reminds young readers of all genders that perfection doesn't exist and encourages them to both accept and love them-selves without apology. * Quill & Quire * H]eartbreakingly honest. * Montreal Review of Books * This dreamy, visually acute remembrance of reclaiming one's body in its complex beauty is powerfully personal. * School Library Journal * [T]his graphic memoir presents an honest look at how quickly advice given with love can start to feel like hate. * Booklist * A striking debut and an impressive graphic novel that deserves a home on your shelf. * Cloud Lake Literary * I was touched by this story that refuses to be decorous or falsely resolve the questions it poses about inherited shame and self acceptance. Marie-Noelle Hebert takes the violence of fatphobia and creates something truly vulnerable and unapologetic: a book that takes up space and that confronts the beauty dogma and body hatred bequeathed to girls from a very young age. -- Kyo Maclear, award-winning author of Operatic

The strongest element of the book is the gripping and gorgeous illustrations, which capture Marie-Noëlle’s emotions and magnify the spare dialogue and descriptions. … A touching story about love, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. * Kirkus Reviews * [W]ell told and beautifully illustrated … a book that needs to be read. * CM Review of Materials * [A] raw, cathartic debut graphic memoir. * Publishers Weekly * Hébert’s illustrations in graphite pencil … are not only breathtaking but also searing. …My Body in Pieces reminds young readers of all genders that perfection doesn’t exist and encourages them to both accept and love them-selves without apology. * Quill & Quire * H]eartbreakingly honest. * Montreal Review of Books * This dreamy, visually acute remembrance of ­reclaiming one’s body in its complex beauty is powerfully personal. * School Library Journal * [T]his graphic memoir presents an honest look at how quickly advice given with love can start to feel like hate. * Booklist * A striking debut and an impressive graphic novel that deserves a home on your shelf. * Cloud Lake Literary * I was touched by this story that refuses to be decorous or falsely resolve the questions it poses about inherited shame and self acceptance. Marie-Noëlle Hébert takes the violence of fatphobia and creates something truly vulnerable and unapologetic: a book that takes up space and that confronts the beauty dogma and body hatred bequeathed to girls from a very young age. -- Kyo Maclear, award-winning author of Operatic

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MARIE-NOËLLE HÉBERT lives in Montreal. Largely self-taught, she studied advertising illustration at Collège Salette. She did a series of illustrations for the documentary Carricks, dans le sillage des Irlan­dais by Viveka Melki (Tortuga Films, 2017) and illustrated the children’s book Le voyage de Kalak (Cuento de luz, 2018). The French edition of My Body in Pieces, her first graphic novel, was awarded the Prix des libraires du Québec in 2020. SHELLEY TANAKA is an award-winning author, translator and editor who has written and translated more than forty books for children and young adults. She is faculty emerita at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Shelley lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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