Beautifully Blemished: Learning and Celebrating Skin Differences

Winner of the Literary Titan Gold Award!!!

An inclusive and celebratory children's book about embracing skin differences and educating readers on skin conditions.

Whether it's a birthmark, eczema, vitiligo, moles, scars or other markings...it can be difficult to find the beauty in being different. Beautifully Blemished helps children see the unmatched beauty in their uniqueness and provides understanding to various skin conditions. Come along on this heartfelt journey as, together, we discover that whether speckled or spotted, bumpy or blotted, there is beauty in our "blemishes".

The colorful and brilliantly illustrated pages within this book, done by the lovely Traci Allison, showcase a diverse group of children from around the world with different skin conditions. The poetic use of words will inspire introspective thinking, social emotional learning and a joyful outlook on the world. This book will encourage important conversation around:

• Diversity and acceptance
• Birthmarks and skin conditions
• Self love and self confidence
• Showing empathy towards others