Reading with Kyle Lukoff
When I discovered that Newbery Honoree and Stonewall Award winner Kyle Lukoff would be doing a reading at a nearby children’s library last Saturday, I immediately changed my plans and went to hear him. I wasn’t disappointed.
Books for Kids
3 New LGBTQ Family Books for Kids and Grown-Ups
There’s something for little kids, middle graders, and grown-ups in three great new LGBTQ-inclusive books out today! Check them out—especially because the queer content in the kids’ books isn’t immediately obvious!
10 LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books for World Read Aloud Day
Today is World Read Aloud Day, and while reading any children’s book aloud with your kids on any day is a great idea, here are 10 LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books whose rhythms and wordplay make them particularly fun to read aloud!
A Record 190+ Books Selected for 2023 Rainbow Book List
The 2023 Rainbow Book List from the American Library Association includes a record 190+ librarian-approved books with“significant and authentic” LGBTQIA+ content for children and teens. Let’s look at the books—and at some charts showing how such books have increased over the years!
Youth Media Awards Highlight Quality and Scope of LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books
LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books not only offer needed representation, but can also take their place with some of the best children’s literature around, bar none, as this year’s Youth Media Awards once again proved.
10 Recent, LGBTQ-Inclusive Books for Multicultural Children’s Book Day
Today is Multicultural Children’s Book Day, so I’m showcasing 10 recent picture books that are LGBTQ inclusive and celebrate a diversity of cultures!
An Intersectional Celebration of All Families in New Picture Book
Picture books about different types of families are increasingly common, but a new book gives us a take on the subject that feels particularly varied and intersectional, with a rarer—and emphatic—acknowledgment of chosen families.
“World Made of Glass” Is Heartbreaking and Hopeful
The first must-read, LGBTQ-inclusive middle grade novel of 2023 is set in 1987 at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., and centers on a girl whose father is dying from complications of AIDS.
A Roundup of LGBTQ Kids’ Book Roundups: An End-of-Year Extravaganza
I’ve added nearly 200 new items to my Database of LGBTQ Family Books and More this year—so here’s a roundup of some of the roundups I’ve done, highlighting various identities, topics, and themes: Baking! Cats! Drag queens! Science! Bedtime stories! Board books! Queer kids! Queer moms! Queer dads! Trans and nonbinary parents! and much more.
Great British Bake Off Winner’s New Kids’ Cookbook Is Seasoned with LGBTQ Pride (and Here’s a Sneak Peek)
David Atherton, winner of the 2019 Great British Bake Off, has just published a new kids’ cookbook full of tasty recipes, seasoned with a dash of LGBTQ Pride! Here’s an exclusive sneak peek! (And if you missed the two-dad family in his previous kids’ cookbook, I have a look at that, too.)