Pansy Boy

• Supported by agency-led marketing campaign and strong advertising, targetting trade pubs and email subscriber lists.
• An active podcast tour, on the LGBTQ+, Anti-Bullying, and Children's book theme, focused on such international sites as: Outsiders Talk Podcast; Be a Better Ally; Your Queer Story; My Big Gay Podcast; Queer Words Podcast; LGBTQ&A; Breaking Bully; Anti Bullying 101; Anti-Bullying with Owen and Bella; The Children's Book Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Point Perspective, This Creative Life.
• Social media campaign to include new live animated films / readings / trailers / magazine coverage.
• Features in US libraries at DragStoryHour.

A graphic novel in rhymed couplets, in which a boy combats homophobia in schools by planting flowers at the scene of attacks.

Pansy Boy is a stunningly beautiful picture book about a child's journey to overcome bullying and be proud of who he is.

Told as rhyming poem, the story comes to life with vivid graphic art.

Out in the natural world, a boy is in love with its beauty. Flowers and birds in flight amaze him. But school beckons, and with it bullying from other children. How can he defend himself? Among the wonders of London’s Kew Gardens, Pansy Boy learns the language of the flowers. Where bullies pinned his life with their hate, he plants a pansy. He hopes his plan will empower the school to value what is delicate and different.

Pansy Boy is inspired by the childhood of author and illustrator Paul Harfleet, the founder of The Pansy Project, a worldwide movement which plants pansies at the sites of homophobic attacks around the world. The book comes complete with a field guide to the flowers and birds contained in its pages.

"In the garden of Kew he read for hours, and learned the language of the flowers..."