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Beachbody Challenge

Júlia Barceló / Camille Vannier

Through examples and thoughts contesting fatphobia, beauty standards and the diet culture, this vibrant and fun YA book will empower readers to feel comfortable with their body far beyond its appearance, appreciating the life experiences that it allows us to have.

SYNOPSIS

My phone vibrates. Incoming message. It’s Jana. She suggests that we celebrate her birthday on (surprise!) the beach. WORST NEWS IN YEARS. KILL ME.

Here is where Sol, the main character, starts her journey. Despite being a current girl, she wants to change her body at all costs. And she want to do it in record time because the beach party is now. She’ll follow the steps she’s been taught: not eating much and going to the gym. But what about if there is a more liberating way to live?

Some eye-openers that Sol, the protagonist, learns throughout her path towards a more liberating and happy self-awareness:

«Beauty standards are a very efficient way of curtailing our freedom.»

«Non-normative people will suffer much more social rejection and oppression.»

«Believing that being skinny is the only way to being loved […] is one of the best socially constructed lies and it must be dismantled at all costs!»

Grant & sample translation available.

Word count: 12.500 words.

SELLING POINTS

  • Helps young adults shift their relationship with their own body, shifting the focus away from beauty and appearance.
  • Encourages intuitive eating.
  • Ideal to work on self-awareness and self-care, listening to what the body needs.
  • Contests and problematizes beauty standards, fatphobia and the diet culture.
  • Intersectional approach and diverse characters.
  • Excellent for parents or educators to share with young adults.
  • Hilarious stories behind each character.
Title Beachbody Challenge
Author Júlia Barceló
Illustrator Camille Vannier
ISBN (Original Version) 978-84-18304-11-8
Pages 136
Age Range 12+
Rights sold Simplified Chinese, Danish and Korean.

Júlia Barceló is an actress and stage director and she was a founding member of the theatre company Companyia Solitària. She is also a feminist activist, both online and offline: she promoted the hashtag #SerActriuÉs (#BeinganActresIs) to denounce sexism in the cinema and theatre industries and she is an advocate for the body neutral movement.

Photo © Kiku Pinyol

Camille Vannier is a French illustrator based in Barcelona since 2004. She currently works as a freelance illustrator and collaborates with magazines. She has authored and illustrated various books where humour is central. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and awarded national prizes.

Photo © Lydia Metral

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