Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book

Overview

Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book was published in 2009 by Reach And Teach / PM Press. Public publisher materials describe it as a coloring book that examines female gender stereotypes and asks readers to rethink the roles assigned to girls in children's media. It is not a same-sex-parent picture book. Its place in the collection comes from a related question: how did books, activity sheets, resource lists, and social-justice publishers teach children to question gender expectations? Read beside Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon, Operation Marriage, and other Reach And Teach / PM Press items, it documents a broader ecosystem around LGBTQ-inclusive and feminist children's materials.^{[1][2][4][5][7][8][9]}

Feminist Coloring-Book Form

PM Press frames Girls Are Not Chicks as a coloring book that examines how pervasive gender stereotypes are in children's media. Its form is important: readers color, look, and discuss rather than simply follow a plot. That makes it a useful collection item for understanding child-facing feminism and gender education as practices of participation, not only representation.^[2][4][5]

Gender Rather Than Family Structure

The collection has many titles centered on parents, households, and family formation. This item works differently. It addresses gender stereotypes, girls' roles, media expectations, and feminist self-description. That difference strengthens the collection by showing that LGBTQ-adjacent children's publishing often overlapped with feminist, gender-expression, and classroom-resource materials even when a book did not tell a family story.^[1][2][4]

Teaching Tolerance Context

A Teaching Tolerance review, reposted by PM Press, placed the book in a PreK-5 classroom setting while noting that some vocabulary may require adult explanation. That mixed assessment is useful: the book was child-facing, but it also depended on adult mediation. It records how gender-diversity materials moved between homes, classrooms, activist shops, and resource lists.^[5][4]

Shared Bunnell And Reach And Teach Sequence

Girls Are Not Chicks is strongest when read with Bunnell's related coloring books. Reach And Teach's Pride page and PM Press author pages connect it to Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon, Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be, and The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book. That sequence places the item inside a larger social-justice publishing practice.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

Timeline

1. 2004Reach And Teach LaunchesReach And Teach traces its work to peace and social-justice education.^[7]
2. 2007PM Press FoundedPM Press product sheets describe the publisher's independent and activist publishing mission.^[4]
3. 2009PublicationPM Press and product-sheet records date Girls Are Not Chicks to 2009.^[2][4]
4. 2010Teaching Tolerance ReviewA Teaching Tolerance review, reposted by PM Press, framed the book for classroom and child-facing use.^[5]
5. 2010Sometimes the SpoonSometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon followed in the same Reach And Teach / PM Press sequence.^[10]
6. 2015The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring BookBunnell's later PM Press title extended the coloring-book network into explicitly queer alphabet-book form.^[11]

Reach And Teach / PM Press Context

The item belongs to a sequence of feminist, gender-diversity, and LGBTQIA+ activity books.

Citation

Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book. Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak. Reach And Teach / PM Press, 2009. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-101.

Sources

Cover image from PM Press.

1. Tarpey-Schwed catalog seed record · catalog
2. PM Press page for Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book · publisher
3. Reach And Teach product listing for Girls Are Not Chicks · publisher retailer
4. PM Press product sheet for Girls Are Not Chicks · publisher PDF
5. Teaching Tolerance review reposted by PM Press · review
6. Museum der Moderne queer/fem list of works · exhibition list
7. Reach And Teach story page · organization history
8. Reach And Teach Pride page · organization resource
9. Jacinta Bunnell PM Press author page · publisher author page
10. PM Press page for Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon Coloring Book · publisher
11. PM Press page for The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book · publisher
12. PM Press product sheet for Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be · publisher PDF