We're all works of art by Mark Sperring and Rose Blake (Pavilion Children's Books)

We love it when we start to review a book that does a neat twisty-turn serving up the unexpected...
In "We're all works of art" by Mark Sperring and Rose Blake, we're invited to appreciate a fine work of art indeed.

Our own bodies.

Yes, you might be staring down at your post-christmas spare tyre, stare fixedly into the mirror at your slightly wonky ears or one eye being bigger than the other.

But through this book, Mark and Rose help us appreciate what we've got, for the wonderful biological mechanism it is.

You see beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, and in a world where the media serves up the perfect photoshopped vision of mannequin-like beauty, it's quite something to have a book show that it's absolutely OK not to resemble those horrific automatons you'll see in beauty magazines.



Through thoughtful text and some awesome illustrations, that message is gently delivered. And a vital message it is indeed.


We particularly loved some of the homages to famous artists' works in this book, subtle but definitely there.

What a fantastic and positive book to kick off 2018 with!

C's favourite bit: Wonky noses!

Daddy's favourite bit: A hugely positive message and one that children definitely need to hear and absorb even more than ever as pressures on our interpretation of body positivity come to the fore earlier and earlier in their lives.

"We're All Works of Art" by Mark Sperring and Rose Blake is out today, published by Pavilion.