During the ceremony, they kiss as Julián and Marisol stand by. We meet the two brides, both Black women, one in a white dress with flowers throughout her Afro and the other with locs and a white suit.
He’s not showing up in a trim masculine suit with pants and a tie.Īs they arrive at the wedding, they meet Marisol, a young girl whose own abuela is switching out Marisol’s baseball cap for a crown of flowers-another moment in which gender expression shows itself and that we’ll return to later. I like that Love went for something different here, but one that still feels true to what we know of Julián’s self-expression from the first book. There are happily now a growing number of books about gender creative boys who wear dresses or skirts, but gender creativity can take many forms. His sense of fashion has a distinctly feminine flair-but there are many ways to convey that. The tails of his suit flare at the waist, almost skirt-like.
As the story opens, we see Julián and his grandmother, both Afro-Latinx (as Love has stated), preparing to be in a wedding, which is “a party for love.” Today, he is wearing a lavender suit with shorts, along with fuchsia shoes that match his abuela’s dress and a fuchsia ribbon tied at his throat.
Julián at the Wedding, by Jessica Love (Candlewick), is as beautiful as its Stonewall Award-winning predecessor, with Love’s watercolor, gouache, and ink illustrations on warm tan kraft paper driving the story forward, helped by the few well-chosen words. Julián is back! In the sequel to the acclaimed 2019 picture book, Julián Is a Mermaid, Julián and his abuela are attending a wedding, where Julián meets a new friend and shows that he’s still full of imagination and a creative sense of style.
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