A Normal Pig

This charming picture book celebrates all our differences while questioning the idea that there is only one way to be “normal.”

Pip is a normal pig who does normal stuff: cooking, painting, and dreaming of what she’ll be when she grows up.

But one day a new pig comes to school and starts pointing out all the ways in which Pip is different. Suddenly she doesn’t like any of the same things she used to...the things that made her Pip.

A wonderful springboard for conversations with children, at home and in the classroom, about diversity and difference.

K-Fai Steele is an artist based in San Francisco, California. Some of her many interesting jobs and experiences include installing The Starry Night at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, joining an artist collective and living in an old coffin factory in Philadelphia, building archival enclosures for very old books in a library, launching maker space programs for urban libraries, and advising educators nationally on ways that libraries and museums can be places of learning for youth. She is a Brown Handler Writer in Residence at the San Francisco Public Library, and is the 2019 James Marshall Fellow at the University of Connecticut. She is a recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats/Kerlan Memorial Fellowship. A Normal Pig is her debut as an author-illustrator. You can learn more about her at k-faisteele.com.