Everybelly by Thao Lam [HARDCOVER]

Winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize, a joyful celebration of the belly!

Maddie and her mom spend a sunny day at the local public pool where she meets and greets friends and neighbours. Maddie is waist-high on most of them, and she knows there’s an interesting person behind every belly she passes, like Jackie, the artist with a splatter of ice cream across their belly.

The poolside belly parade keeps Maddie musing: How bellies can make excellent tables, how hard some people work to keep their bellies flat when Maddie prefers her belly full, and how you should never, ever stick your hands in other people’s bellies, no matter how soft and doughy they might look. (Maddie’s cat taught her that the hard way.)

As Maddie dances, swims and makes the long climb up to the diving board, Thao Lam’s celebrated cut-paper collage portrays bellies and bodies of all shapes and sizes – bellies with scars, tattooed bellies, growing bellies, growling bellies, bellies with six-packs, stretch marks, insulin monitors, freckles and more – proving that every belly deserves its place in the sun.

11 in x 7 in
40 Pages
For ages 3 years and up
Author: Thao Lam
Illustrator: Thao Lam
ISBN: 9781773067643

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