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Title: Tomboy
Subtitle: A Graphic Memoir
Author: Liz Prince
Narrator: full cast
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-19-16
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Teens, Fiction & Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Growing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl, dressing in pink tutus or playing Pretty Pretty Princess like the other girls in her neighborhood. But she wasn't exactly one of the guys either, as she quickly learned when her Little League baseball coach exiled her to the outfield instead of letting her take the pitcher's mound. Liz was somewhere in the middle, and Tomboy is the story of her struggle to find the place where she belonged.
Tomboy is a graphic novel about refusing gender boundaries, yet unwittingly embracing gender stereotypes at the same time, and realizing later in life that you can be just as much of a girl in jeans and a T-shirt as you can in a pink tutu. Tomboy explores Liz's ever-evolving struggles and wishes regarding what it means to be a girl.
Members Reviews:
Great
This book was a very good read. Though I will say this, this book should be more for thirteen year olds because there is some content not for younger readers, such as drugs and Liz smoking at the age of fifteen (I believe) and some snogging and sex (but it doesn't get onto all the details, it only mentions it). But the book is great, and it really opens your eyes on how society puts up expectations for girls that seem very unfair.
Graphic Childhood at the End of the 20th Century
SO GOOD!!! This should be required reading in sixth grade. I would say kindergarten but most parents want to put off any talk of reproduction and drugs till later on, though such related history seems fairly mild to me in that department and is necessary in that it moves the story and the reader along Liz's tale of growing up a Tomboy with great empathy, charm and reliability to the business of growing up. It's good to be yourself. It's good to stick to your guns. It's good graphic noveling!
Great comic for girls of all ages (and boys, too)
Cute and funny autobiographical comic about Liz Prince's childhood and youth as a Tomboy. Given that I did not grow up in the U.S.A., this comic gives me a somewhat daunting image of schools in America... seems like bullying and making fun of other people for being different is considered acceptable behavior....!
It's a great book to reassure kids and grown-ups that one does not have to conform to what the majority of society dictates, and it's the best book for girls/women who don't enjoy dressing up in pink, wearing make-up, being super-Disney-princess-like girly, and who prefer pants to dresses!
It really makes you hate gender roles in general
Without being preachy or victimizing (and with high doses of laugh-out-loud humor), Liz Prince manages to tell her coming-of-age story growing up as a not-feminine person in a world which seems to take high regards in the adherence to gender roles.
What I really liked about this story is how the whole absurdity of genders "creeps" silently on you. By following Prince's highly-adorable vision as a growing kid you feel as if you discover each new facet of society along with her.
Excellent in all fronts.
Perfectly captures the angst of school-age years
Graphic novel where Liz tells about her growing up preferring boy things and to literally be a boy and all the challenges not conforming to gender stereotypes presented in school. She perfectly captures what grade school and high school were like.
