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		Norma Fleck Award for Children's Non-Fiction 2005 (Canadian Children's Book Centre) In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You Shari Graydon Toronto: Annick Press, 2004. 176 p. ISBN 1550378570 (bound) ISBN 1550378562 (paperback) Ages 12 and up
In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You Source

As former president of Media Watch and a university teacher of media literacy, Shari Graydon is well aware of the marketing that underlies the cult of beauty that today's youth embrace. In fact, she wrote this book to make adolescents aware of the fantasies of youth, beauty and health that are promoted every day in our media.

In 11 chapters, Graydon explains the foundation of the culture of beauty. She is critical of our perceptions and also describes accepted standards. She clearly wants to demonstrate that beauty is subjective and that who you are is much more important than what you simply look like.Though her arguments and conclusions are predictable, Graydon never falls back on clichés. She develops her line of argument using familiar words and examples that are easy to understand.

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