Celebrate International Non-Binary People’s Day today with these recent picture, chapter, and middle grade books! (They make great reading year ’round, too!)
Note that these aren’t the only books from 2026 with nonbinary representation, just ones with nonbinary sole protagonists (plus one whose whole point is to dispel the gender binary). You can filter my Database of LGBTQ Family Books by tags for nonbinary children or adults to find other titles with nonbinary representation, as well as titles from previous years.
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Picture Books
With silly, bouncing rhymes and bold illustrations heavy on pink, purple, and blue, this delightful book celebrates self-expression and ability regardless of gender.
Some people are confused about whether Pete is a boy or girl, but Pete is confident in simply being who they are, in this slice-of-life book with a cheery vibe and helpful modeling of self-awareness and parental support.
This sweet story shows that gender fluidity exists in nature, emphasizes the importance of seeing such examples, and shows how easy it is for children to welcome genderfluid peers.
Ellis has a lot of worries, like losing their puppy, Peanut, but also has strategies that help them manage them. Their nonbinary identity is incidental to the story, which focuses on feelings and responses that may resonate with any child who has anxiety.
Chapter Books
The beginning of a Batcat graphic novel always amuses me, while the end always moves me. This fourth volume in the delightful series starring nonbinary friends Batcat and Al the Ghost is no exception. Puns, breaking of the fourth wall, and general silliness abound, yet the story never makes light of Batcat’s deepest feelings.
The third volume of this engaging chapter book series continues to bring us interlinked stories about Little Blue, a witch-in-training, who helps out their Mama Moon at the magical Witchycakes bakery.
Middle Grade
Maia Kobabe, author/illustrator of the award-winning (and much banned) young adult book Gender Queer, teams up with debut author/illustrator Swati “Lucky” Srikumar for this graphic novel starring an Indian-American nonbinary tween who comes out with the support of their family (and their Hindu heritage).
This graphic novel sequel to the terrific Ink Girls can be read as a standalone story, and lives up to its predecessor’s excellence. Again set in the city of Siannera, loosely modeled on late medieval Sienna, this volume stars a nonbinary youth named Vale who must resist the oppressive guilds of the city.
Diné author/illustrator and librarian Julie Fiveash’s graphic novel debut is engaging, quirky, and surprisingly moving as it follows Anura, a young nonbinary frog who is spending the summer with their grandmother in Soggy Stump, a (fictional) Navajo community in the southwest.