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Title: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Author: Lucy Knisley
Illustrator: Lucy Knisley
Primary Health Topic: Pregnancy
Secondary Health Topic(s): Birth, Miscarriage, Preeclampsia
Special Considerations: Trauma, Miscarriage
Publication Date: February 26, 2019
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 9781626728080
GM Review: Review by Kevin Wolf
Annotation: Kid Gloves is a memoir about pregnancy and birth. Knisley tells the story of a miscarriage followed by a pregnancy which goes full term. She includes some history of medicine regarding old beliefs about pregnancy and birth. At a particularly climatic part of the story, the art style changes completely to reflect a change in the storytelling. It adds significantly to the emotions surrounding the events. Although Knisley is telling her individual story, the situations relate to circumstances many other women have faced as well. She presents subjects other people might want to “sweep under the rug.”
Annotated By: Alice Jaggers