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Sometimes The Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon

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In Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon you will find anecdotes of real kids’ lives and true-to-life fairy tale characters. This book pushes us beyond rigid gender expectations while we color fantastic beasts who like pretty jewelry and princesses who build rocket ships.

Celebrate sensitive boys, tough girls, and others who do not fit into a disempowering gender categorization.

We have the power to change fairy tales and nursery rhymes so that these stories are more realistic.

Sometimes the Spoon...aids the work of dismantling the Princess Industrial Complex by moving us forward with more honest representations of our children and ourselves. Color to your heart's content. Laugh along with the characters. Write your own fairy tales. Share your own truths.

Re-creating nursery rhymes and fairy tales, this radical activity book takes anecdotes from the lives of real kids and mixes them with classic tales to create true-to-life characters, situations, and resolutions. Featuring massive beasts who enjoy dainty, pretty jewelry and princesses who build rocket ships, this fun-for-all-ages coloring book celebrates those who do not fit into disempowering gender categorizations, from sensitive boys to tough girls.

This coloring book is SFW and appropriate for all ages.

"These coloring books are beautiful and visionary." —Jennifer Berger, About-Face

"Coloring this would be a very meditative way to remind yourself about self-acceptance and diversity." —Zine World

"As moving and funny as Walter the Farting Dog, with pictures you can color however your heart desires, Sometimes the Spoon... is appropriate for children of all ages, especially those who grew up without it."
—Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist of The East Village Inky

"For some people the sky's the limit. For Jacinta Bunnell it's a place to put a rainbow. There are no limits in Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon—just fun and love. Jacinta Bunnell invites you to "Step right up!" to the wonderful world of you!"
—World Famous *BOB*, Ultimate Self Confidence! Coach

Jacinta Bunnell is an artist and writer living in New York's Hudson Valley where she enjoys makes coloring books for a gender-defiant new world. Jacinta is a rehabilitated and reformed cheerleader who now has pep rallies for all sorts of freaks.

When Nat Kusinitz was in 6th grade he saw a painting of Frida Kahlo with all of her hair chopped off and was never the same again. He currently resides in New Orleans, where he spends his time riding the streetcar around and staring wistfully out of windows.

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 2 reviews)

Lucy O. ★★★★★

My kid kept asking why the princess had to be saved, so this book was a perfect find — the anecdotes feel real and the fairy tales actually challenge stereotypes without being preachy. We've read it three nights in a row now, and it sparks such good conversations.

Kevin ★★★★★

I picked this up for my niece and we both ended up laughing at the "true-to-life fairy tale characters" who break all the old stereotypes. The anecdotes feel exactly like conversations I've had with kids, which makes the message about gender expectations land so naturally.