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Book cover: A background of soft blues and greens. The title of the book drops like a vine and attaches to Kamal's braid. (Kamal is a young Sikh girl wearing a yellow sleeveless dress with flowers in her braids). Leafy plants and flowers fill the bottom of the cover. Written and illustrated by Baljinder Kaur.
  • Book cover: A background of soft blues and greens. The title of the book drops like a vine and attaches to Kamal's braid. (Kamal is a young Sikh girl wearing a yellow sleeveless dress with flowers in her braids). Leafy plants and flowers fill the bottom of the cover. Written and illustrated by Baljinder Kaur.
  • Page spread from Kamal's Kes. On left side you see the face of a south-asian girl with eyes wide and a golden hair comb on the right side of her hair. Leaves swirl above her face. Text reads: One evening, as Kamal combed her keys, she noticed a shadow above her lips. The next morning, the shadow had grown darker, and soon, she found it growing in all sorts of new places. On the spread to the right, the top image shows Kamal wrapped in her long black hair, her left arm raised and looking at her hairy armpit. The image below shows a spot illustration of her hairy legs with her feet curled across each other. A swirl of long black hair continues to the next page.
  • Page spread from Kamal's Kes. Dark sage green background with bare trees. On the left, Kamal appears to have grown claws and horns and is sat on some sandy ground, wearing a white sleeveless top and red shorts. Her long black hair winds onto the next spread, in which Kamal appears to trip over her long hair and begin to fall. Text on the left reads: She yanked, clawed and scratched at her body, but the more she pulled, the faster it grew back.

Kamal’s Kes

$24.95

Written and Illustrated by Baljinder Kaur

Kamal’s Kes is a body-positive picture book, rooted in dismantling standards of beauty that harm the mental health of young persons. With such few representations of body hair in picture books, cultural conditioning sends the message of feeling ashamed of natural hair. This Own Voices story offers young girls an empowering choice when it comes to their developing body hair. Kamal will have to confront her deepest thoughts to reimagine what beautiful means to her.

PLEASE NOTE: Canada Post does not provide tracking for shipping a single copy and they continue to experience transit delays. Please consider ordering a bundle if you are able, to ensure tracked delivery.

(To save on international shipping costs, please consider purchasing 2+ books or check out our International stockists and help support a small business). For single copies, please consider ordering from your local library or bookstore – our titles are available in bookshops and stores all across Canada.

 

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More Details:
Size: 11.25”(h) x 8.5”(w)
Pages: 40 pages
Format: Hardcover
Publication: First edition, September 16th, 2021
List Price: $24.95/Contact us for international wholesale orders
Printed on responsibly sourced FSC paper

ISBN: 978-0-9812412-3-4

Features:
Decorated endpapers; A Letter to my (older/younger) Self keepsake page

Themes: Social Themes, Adolescence & Coming of Age, Emotions & Feelings, Depression & Mental Illness, Standards of Beauty, Body-Positivity
Own Voices text

SOCIAL IMPACT: Every book purchase helps break the cycle of poverty and gives access to opportunity for some of the 1.4 million children around the world living with treatable vision loss.

 

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