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What I Want to Be When I Grow Up is picture book about gender stereotypes in jobs. Each page is a different male dominated profession, for example: doctor, race car driver, and astronaut. The main character dreams of becoming each of these professions when they're older. Each worker throughout the book is gender neutral until the very last page where you find out it is a girl dreaming about working in these male dominated fields. Gender stereotypes exist in the themes, texts, and illustrations of many children's books. The point in a child's life where they are reading picture books is also the time they are creating their self-image. Therefore, children's development and views are affected by the messages they are reading. throughout the story line. The main focus of this book is to break away from the gender stereotypes seen in most picture books. But rather than that being the only focus, it is subtly hidden. The aim of this book is to teach students the value of gender diversity, the awareness of gender barriers and that they are breakable, and to start a conversation about equality and justice.