Congratulations to Cheryl, winner of yesterday’s Monday is One Day giveaway! Here’s the second of three giveaways this week. If you missed the info yesterday, here’s the scoop: Monday Is One Day, by Arthur Levine, is a gay-inclusive (but not exclusive) poem from a working parent to a child. “The hardest part of going to work is being
It’s always exciting to share news of a brand-spanking new LGBT-inclusive children’s book, especially one as good as Monday is One Day, by Arthur Levine, the U.S. editor of Harry Potter—and I have three copies to give away this week!
For the fourth time, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s And Tango Makes Three, based on the real-life story of two male penguins who raise a chick from an orphaned egg, tops the American Library Association’s (ALA) latest Top Ten list of the Most Frequently Challenged Books. The penguins take over again after slipping to number two
There is a veritable slew of LGBT-inclusive children’s books, young adult books, and books about parenting coming out right now (a “slew” being more than a “bevy” but less than a “flood”). I will be covering some of them in more depth for my newspaper column, but I wanted to mention a few new young adult books here. They’re a little outside my usual parenting focus, but I liked them enough to give them a mention.
Have you spoken with your kids about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan? We’ve touched on it with our seven-year-old, trying to provide some insight into the world beyond our borders—but also wondering whether too much detail will just scare him. So far, I think we’ve managed a balance, though we’ve avoided talking about nuclear
Let’s talk about books. Not just LGBT books, but kids and young adult books in general. What are your kids reading now? Please share in the comments (along with their ages and/or grades, as a guide for others). My second-grade son is very into the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. I’m
There’s a new children’s book out featuring a same-sex couple getting married: Eric Ross’ My Uncle’s Wedding. “Wait a minute,” some of you may say. “Wasn’t that book published a while back?” No, but a similar one about a same-sex couple getting married, Sarah Brannen’s Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, came out from Penguin Book in 2008. Therein lies the problem.
Happy birthday to the good doctor, who was born Theodor Seuss Geisel on this date in 1904. While we may not be able to celebrate quite like they do in Katroo, we can celebrate Read Across America Day, an annual “reading motivation and awareness program” run by the National Education Association (NEA). I feel obliged to point
With all the recent media attention about the need to support LGBTQ youth, it is notable that the American Library Association (ALA) is in its fourth year of giving librarians the tools to do just that.
Passing along this information from Keshet, the national organization for GLTBQ Jews: Keshet, a national nonprofit that works for the full inclusion of GLBTQ Jews, just launched a Jewish Children’s Book Writing Contest. While there are many great Jewish books for kids, Jewish children’s books that feature GLBTQ families or characters are extremely rare. The winner
