A Queer-Inclusive Children’s Book Inspiring Peaceful Protest for Change
Here’s a beautiful, new, queer-inclusive children’s book that encourages taking action to create positive social change.
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New Children’s Book Is a Bilingual Love Song from One Boy to Another
Continuing my National Coming Out Day week of new picture books, coming out today is a gorgeous new bilingual children’s book in English and Spanish that honors the Mexican serenata tradition even as reframes it to include one boy creating a love song for another, with the help of his father.
New Children’s Book Explains “What’s ‘Gay’?” Download It Here!
Brian McNaught, called “the godfather of gay diversity and sensitivity training” by the New York Times, has written a children’s book explaining “What’s gay?” in a simple, engaging rhyme—and he’s kindly making it available here free to Mombian readers.
Girl Learns to Understand Her Transgender Brother in New Picture Book
National Coming Out Day is this week, and I’m celebrating with reviews of several new LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books that are coming out! The first—part of a partnership to increase LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books—is about a girl learning to understand her transgender sibling.
A Queer-Inclusive Kids’ Book for Indigenous Peoples’ Day (or Any Day)
It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day today, so I want to highlight the one queer-inclusive children’s book I know of that centers on an indigenous family—while also celebrating the many types of families in our world today.
A Queer, Middle Grade Love Story Set in 1977
A new middle grade book gives us a queer romance set in the U.S. South in 1977, long before gay-straight alliance clubs, marriage equality, or any kind of LGBTQ-inclusive books for children and youth. It will likely still resonate with young people today, however (and maybe some of their parents).
Second Time’s the Charm: Queer-Inclusive Middle Grade Sequels and Sophomores
I know we’ve made progress towards increasing the number of LGBTQ-inclusive middle grade books when three come out within weeks of each other that are not just new books, but sequels or sophomore efforts. The authors are also all queer themselves!
Banned Books Highlight LGBTQ Content
Today marks the start of Banned Books Week, the annual event from the American Library Association (ALA) celebrating the freedom to read. Half of the books in the ALA’s latest Top Ten Most Challenged Books list contain LGBTQ content—to me, that’s a shopping list.
A Tree Narrates Middle-Grade Book on Inclusion and Friendship
September always makes me think of trees–between fruit harvests and color changing, it’s their time to shine. This year, I’m also thinking of a middle-grade book, narrated by a tree, that’s one of the most charming stories of inclusion and acceptance I’ve read lately.
New Picture Book about a “Princess and Pirate” Expands Views of Gender
When I first received a new book about a girl who likes to pretend she is both a princess and a pirate, I was very excited. A book with a broad view of how girls imagine and play? Might this be a book that would have spoken to me, growing up as a tomboyish girl?