X, a Fabulous Child's Story

by Lois Gould

Book Overview

X is loved by its classmates but despised by adults because no one knows if it is a boy or girl. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913780219
• ISBN13: 9780913780213
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Daughters Pub. Co.
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is just the best way to raise a child

I read this in one of my textbooks for class. I then proceeded to read it to my girlfriend. Then I read it to all my best friends. Then I read it at open mic. Then I bought it outside of my textbook. This book was absolutely awesome. I am going to name my child Francis or Junior and declare its gender X. I am, of course, going to have to buy a copy of the 85,000 page instruction manual for how to work it. :-)

Fun and Eye-opening

Baby X is a book that make us Xamine our selves and our culture. It is funny and touching and a must for little children. I think this is one of the best books to teach our children a kinder, more open way of being.

Tom boy? Jane girl? Gender Roles Tickled Here.

With an entertaining story about a mystery-gender child named X, Lois Gould prompts us to question our most deeply held convictions about "boy-stuff" and "girl-stuff." Kids and adults of all ages will smile at the outlandish details and alliterative descriptions used to create a world where a child might thrive based on his/her individual needs, interests, and abilities without respect to gender. Gently prodding us to examine our own long-held stereotypes, the slim volume challenges us to "be all we can be," no matter our gender, and without requiring a visit to our local recruiter! This is a great gift at baby showers!