Pack up your duffel, we’re going to camp! Several new, queer-inclusive, camp-themed middle grade books are just the excuse I need to round up a whole cabin’s worth of such novels and graphic novels from recent years, featuring diverse types of camps and campers! Give a rucksack full of them to your favorite tween!
Here’s to the dads, to all who fill that role, and to all who claim today as their own. Let’s celebrate with a roundup of recent picture, middle-grade, and grown-up books featuring queer dads!
The great middle grade titles keep rolling in, and this week we have a two-girl crush, a summer camp graphic novel with a nonbinary protagonist (and a crush), a nonbinary kid making a place for themself (with a little help from some friends), and an autobiography of Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya.
Are your kids getting too old for picture books but not quite ready to tackle middle grade titles? Try these two new, absolutely adorable LGBTQ-inclusive titles with nonbinary representation, aimed at beginning readers!
Three new picture books explore various aspects of family relationships through the eyes of a boy with two moms, a boy with a gay uncle, and a girl with a queer older sibling.
The wave of great new LGBTQ-inclusive middle grade books keeps on coming! Here are some recent ones that show a range of adventure, humor, self-exploration, interpersonal drama, and queer identities.
It’s nearly Mother’s Day (or Mothers’ Day, if that’s how you roll), so here are some great new LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books to enjoy this weekend or anytime.
Pride will be here before we know it, so get a jump on the celebration and check out some of these great new books for young children and middle-grade readers, with themes of LGBTQ Pride, history, and culture!
Kyle Lukoff is a two-time Stonewall Award winner, Newbery Award Honoree, and a former children’s librarian who has given voice to many transgender and other queer characters in his books for kids—and now you can ask him questions for an upcoming virtual Q & A hosted by OurShelves!
For Nonbinary Parents Day today, listen to an absolutely beautiful, brand-new lullaby celebrating nonbinary parents and their varied parental names—a sneak peek from the upcoming album by award-winning children’s music trio Ants on a Log—and learn about two upcoming books and other resources for and about nonbinary parents and what they call themselves.
