Though this could be read just as a story of a bat wanting to be a butterfly, it’s also a gender-affirming conversation starter that should be supported by books with human characters such as Kyle Lukoff’s When Aidan Became a Brother or Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings’s I Am Jazz.
Very clear in its didacticism, this empowering book is an intended tool for caregivers and teachers wanting to explore social emotional learning with the very young.