When Panda Was a Boy: A Collection of Stories on Gender Identity for K-8 - Paperback

by Connie Dunn (Author)

When Panda was a Boy is a collection of stories on Gender Issues, such as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual and Questioning. The stories are meant for K-8. Each story is clearly labeled for the appropriate age group. In When Panda Was a Boy, Grandma has come to visit. Grandma wants to have a tea party. She is wearing her tea-party hat, but Lisa clearly is not interested. She wants to go out with Panda and jump into mud puddles. And when Grandma suggests that she play indoors and wear a pink frilly dress, Lisa makes it clear that she wants to be a boy. She wants to wear comfortable clothes like t-shirts and jeans. In Amara's Birthday Request, Amara asks for a boy part for her birthday. It seems that her friend, Kamal, tells her that she cannot go sailing, because she's a girl. Mom assures her that girls can do anything boys do, if they choose. In Drew and Lester, the two boys are neighbors and best friends. They love to dance and do acting. They also play soccer, but their love is clearly dance. When the boys grow up, they become Life Partners. Other stories include: A Boy Named Sue, Brazos Dances, Charlie Is a Girl, and others.

Author Biography

Connie Dunn is an author, speaker, and educator. She specializes in working with fiction writers to help them get their book written and published. Connie writes both books and courses to help her students and coaching clients. She has more than 25 years of experience in writing for magazines and newspapers. She had a regular column in the Dallas Morning News, which focused on small and home-based businesses. For this column, she won an award from the SBA (Small Business Administration). Connie also developed courseware for a number of start-up technology firms and with publishers, such as Prentice Hall Developmental (content) Editor. She self-published her first book in 1981, and developed a collection of stories with a collaborator in the 1990s. She writes children's books, non-fiction, and fiction. Connie believes that everyone has a book in them and her greatest joy is in traveling with her students on their writing journeys. Connie lives in Franklin, MA, with her wife, Joyce, and their plus-size cat, Sophie, and their tiny 5 1/2 pound Chihuahua, Rusty