The Jewish High Holiday season is this week, so let’s take a look at some new stories that feature queer, Jewish families, including a children’s picture book and a grown-up memoir by a woman with four lesbian moms.
A new children’s picture book about human bodies includes transgender and gender nonconforming people as well as same-sex parents. That’s a rare and wonderful thing, making this a welcome book, despite a few caveats.
It’s Banned Books Week, the annual event from the American Library Association (ALA) that “draws national attention to the harms of censorship.” This year, the ALA’s Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books list is once again full of books with LGBTQ content.
A girl and her two moms travel to South Africa in a new children’s book, the second of a series featuring this Black family—and adding some much-needed color to LGBTQ-inclusive picture books.
Looking for LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books? Try some classics that are available free online.
A new book adds to the variety of family structures shown in children’s literature by featuring a child whose mom and dad divorced and are now each dating women.
In the aftermath of Orlando, I have been thinking anew about how to explain prejudice and hate to children. Here are three children’s books that may help.
A new children’s video puts a new spin on fairytale tropes to give us a heroine who has smarts—and a girlfriend. And The Fosters’ Teri Polo gives her a voice.
They’re back! The four boys, two dads, and assorted pets who romped through Dana Alison Levy’s award-winning middle-grade novel The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher return in The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island.
Get ready for a fun-filled month of Pride with these books to help our kids better understand what it’s all about—and the history behind it.
