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 book for children. It takes on the issue of bullying and lets a child feel proud for being different. As a beloved extra, it gives children their first field guides to bird s and flowers. Out in the natural world, a boy is in love with its beauty. Birds in flight amaze him. School squats at the end of summer. Bullies attack him. How can he defend himself? In a rhyming poem, the story comes to life in vivid graphic art. The boy takes strength from the flowers he loves. Where bullies pinned his life with their hate, he plants a pansy. The power of his actions empowers his school to value what is delicate and different. AUTHOR: When young, Paul Harfleet felt that tug between the world's natural beauties and a world that could be vicious to gay children. Paul Harfleet conceived and runs The Pansy Project, an artwork and an activist movement which since 2005 has planted pansies at the sites of homophobic attacks around the world. Canal+ filmed Paul and his work for the multi-award winning documentary Les Pensees de Paul (2016).
"Written and illustrated beautifully... the kind of book that celebrates difference" - The Guardian
"Beautiful, heartfelt, uplifting... Pansy Boy is a story of childhood innocence told through stunningly detailed illustration" - James Wong, Botanist, TV personality and author
"Heartfelt and Powerful" - Rachel Holmes, Chair of the Judges for the Polari Prize 2018
"Beautiful and thoughtful" - Kirklees Libraries (Huddersfield, UK)
"Pansy Boy acts as a platform for discussing the nuances of homophobia and bullying" - Let's Talk Picture Books Blog
Paul Harfleet is an award-winning, London-based interdisciplinary artist that has exhibited internationally. He conceived and runs The Pansy Project, an artwork and an activist movement which plants pansies at the sites of homophobic attacks around the world. Starting in his home city of Manchester (UK), The Pansy Project has spread from New York to Berlin and beyond. Paul Harfleet’s short documentaries, closely tied to specific cases of Pansy plantings, have been shown at various institutions and festivals including the Everybody’s Perfect Festival (Geneva), The Spencer Museum of Art (Kansas), and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). Canal+ filmed Paul and his work for the multi-award winning documentary Les Pensées de Paul (2016).With travel restricted during the pandemic in 2020, Harfleet began Birds Can Fly, a queer exploration of ornithology. This ongoing project is a manifestation of Paul’s life-long love of birds and reflects a resurgence in the cultural appreciation of the natural world, post-pandemic. Pansy Boy comes with a field guide to the flowers and birds contained in its pages.Paul Harfleet wrote and illustrated his picture book, Pansy Boy. It is inspired by the author’s childhood, where he felt that tug between the world’s natural beauties and a world that could be vicious to gay children.
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