8 New LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books for Mother’s Day
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.
Books for Kids
14 New Pride Books for Kids
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!
Ask Award-Winning Author Kyle Lukoff a Question!
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!
Celebrate Nonbinary Parents Day With a New Lullaby and New Books Featuring Nonbinary Parents
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.
9 LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books for National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, and these recent books in verse for young readers (including a brand-new one out this week!) prove that LGBTQ-inclusive titles can be as beautiful and powerful as any today.
7 of 2023’s Top 10 Most Challenged Books Have LGBTQIA+ Content
Seven of the American Library Association’s annual list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books were challenged for their LGBTQIA+ content—and Gender Queer, a memoir about growing up nonbinary and asexual, topped the list for the third year in a row.
13 LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books for the Solar Eclipse
Whether you’re heading out to see the solar eclipse tomorrow or staying away from the fuss, check out these stellar LGBTQ-inclusive picture, chapter, and middle grade books that feature astronomy and space travel! (I was an astronomy major, so this was an especially fun list for me to pull together.)
6 New LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books About Identity, Community, and Adventure
This week brings us great new LGBTQ-inclusive reads including picture books, a chapter book, and middle grade titles!
14 Recent Kids’ Books With Transgender Protagonists
This Sunday marks Transgender Day of Visibility, so let’s showcase some middle grade and picture book titles from 2023 and 2024 with transgender protagonists, great to read all year ’round!
Book Challenges Rise to Record 4,240 Titles in 2023 (and 2024 Doesn’t Look Good)
Last year saw a record 4,240 book titles challenged in schools and libraries, according to the American Library Association. This year looks set to be similarly bad, with censorship triggering firings and protest at an Alabama library—and a Virginia school reading program halted after complaints about a book that includes a nonbinary tree.
