'Biggest, Baddest Book of Bugs' (2012) is written by Anders Hanson and Elissa Mann.

Seven-year-old Parker Dains, from Milpitas, CA, enjoys books about insects and wants to be a circus owner where she "would treat the animals nicely." During an April 2014 visit to the Milpitas Public Library, she was reading the Biggest, Baddest Book of Bugs (2012), from Abdo Publishing, only to discover the title was part of a series called the "Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys," according to the Guardian. Outraged, the second-grader at Joseph Weller Elementary School soon followed up with a letter, dated April 2, to Abdo, in which Parker, who was six-years-old at the time, wrote (excerpted from The Mary Sue):

"Dear Publishers: I am a six-year-old girl and I just read the 'Biggest, Baddest Book of Bugs.' I really enjoyed the section on Glow in the Dark bugs and the quizzes at the end. When I saw the back cover title, it said 'Biggest Baddest Books for Boys' and it made me very unhappy. It made me very sad because there's no such thing as a boy book. You should change from 'Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys' into 'Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys and Girls' because some girls would like to be entomologists too."

Abdo responded with a letter, dated April 22, which read (excerpted from Inside Bay Area):

"Dear Parker ... We love the way you decorated the envelope -- you must be a very creative person! While the envelope was eye-catching what you wrote inside caught our attention even more so. You brought up a very good point: there should certainly be a 'Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys' for everyone. After all, girls can like 'boy' things too!"

The letter went on to inform Parker they would be changing the series' name to "Biggest, Baddest Books." Parker received a box of books, courtesy of Abdo, under the newly titled series "Biggest, Baddest Books" on November 7. "I think it was so awesome...they took my advice," said Parker to a local publication. "If boys want to, boys can have long hair, and girls can have short hair, just in case they like to keep hair safe from headlice like some of my friends did in my class." Her "victory in the United States is the latest in a series of changes made to children’s stories" in the publishing industry, says the Guardian, following momentum from the UK campaign Let Books Be Books and the worldwide We Need Diverse Books. Stateside, at the Brooklyn (NY) Public Library, Rachel Payne, the coordinator of Early Childhood Services, tells SLJ, "From my experience, kids usually know in about five seconds whether or not they want to open a book or not. Gender labels are just going to limit their choices. And if adults don’t know what books to get the kids in their lives, they can always turn to a knowledgeable librarian or bookseller." Among Parker's select reads are "The Dork Diaries" (Aladdin) by Rachel Renée Russell, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" (Amulet Books) by Jeff Kinney, and "Amelia Bedelia" by Peggy Parish, according to Inside Bay Area.