Jodie Patterson activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board shares her transgender son s experience in this important picture book about identity and acceptance. Penelope knows that he s a boy. (And a ninja.) The problem is getting everyone else to realize it. In this exuberant companion to Jodie Patterson s adult memoir The Bold World Patterson shares her son Penelope s frustrations and triumphs on his journey to share himself with the world. Penelope s experiences show children that it always makes you stronger when you are true to yourself and who you really are.