Guthli has Wings

Guthli is a happy child, everyone’s favourite. Then one day she is told not to wear her sister’s frilly frock, but her ‘own’ boy’s clothes. And things erupt. “Why do you keep saying I’m a boy when I’m a girl?” she asks her mother. In that simple question lies all the bewilderment that children like

Guthli feel, who don’t seem to others what they know they are. The gentle, bold story about gender identity tells it like it is, reality echoed in the flatness of the vibrant cut-out illustrations — Guthli’s sparkle and sadness, her family’s confusion, the big question mark that hangs over them all… Selected for the 2020 White Ravens Catalogue