Go with the Flow is a fun, feminist narrative paired with a friendship story, all delivered in a colourful and thoughtfully created graphic novel. I wish it was a book I'd had growing up and the friendships in this one are some of the best I've seen in YA. When we do not provide stories like that of Go With The Flow or any of the other amazing books on the NBC Texas Banned Books list, we limit readers ability to be seen, heard, and build empathy.

Periods are a fact of life for about half the world's population, and yet there is still shame, and secrecy, and lots of other BS surrounding this natural cycle. Established friends Abby, Brit, and Christine swoop in and introduce themselves, whisking her away to the bathroom to calmly inform her that her period has leaked through her white pants.The first is, we should not be teaching kids that authority is to be followed blindly without question, but instead teach them to question the world around them to become strong thinkers. It mentions several medical issues with no further explanation, like toxic shock syndrome [i] [sudden possibly fatal; caused by growth of certain bacteria; mainly from ”super-absorbent” tampons; < 20,000 people/year in U.

New girl Sasha Chen worries she’s marked for life when her first period stains her white pants for all to see.Abby starts a crusade to end the stigma surrounding periods and the school administration's belief that menstrual hygiene products in the girls' restrooms aren't that necessary. Parents need to know that Go with the Flow, a graphic novel by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann, takes on the often taboo subjects of menstruation and "period activism" with heart, humor, and a maturity just right for young readers. Watson and Holmes: A Scandal In Harlem reprints the previous second collection of stories with a new, short (seven [. It’s a lengthy book, over 300 pages, because the authors touch, if only briefly, on a wide variety of related subjects. The one who cares so much about a cause that she brings it up in every conceivable situation (“But have you guys heard about Toxic Shock Syndrome?

Lily Williams is the author and illustrator of the If Animals Disappeared nonfiction picture book series and graphic novels Go With The Flow and Look On The Bright Side (co-written with Karen Schneemann). I also really enjoyed all the factual details sprinkled throughout the blog and the notes afterwards. Period stigma and period poverty are addressed head on in this entertaining graphic novel that's about so much more than menstruation. You’re just kind of throwing it out there like, “Oh, yeah, the tampon tax is a thing people talk about!Readers this age are often shy to talk about their crushes, and the panels here show the varying levels of understanding about their same- and opposite-sex attractions. She decides to take action for the half of the school that bleeds, but her protest goes too far and alienates her friends. I so wish I could have read this book when I was a young teenager, I think I would have loved it even more! Good Guys and Bad get just deserts in the end, and Stanley gets plenty of opportunities to display pluck and valor in this rugged, engrossing adventure. Then came the election of 2016, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Women’s March, and any number of other factors that suddenly made those old “protest novels” look downright quaint.

This warm, candid friendship story isn’t shy about the message it’s trying to send―that periods need not be a dirty secret. Weeks of punishing labor later, Stanley digs up a clue, but is canny enough to conceal the information of which hole it came from. Lily Williams is the author and illustrator of many books including the nonfiction picture book series If Animals Disappeared, and graphic novels Go With The Flow and Look On The Bright Side .High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow . this is such a necessary read, showing how important it is to talk about periods, having proper support for those who menstruate incld.