Post of the Week: “Read Off Script”
Here’s a helpful and thought-provoking read to start your week: a piece on how to make children’s books, even when not originally LGBTQ inclusive, more inclusive of queer families and diverse parental names.
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LGBTQ-Inclusive Christmas Books for Kids
Looking for LGBTQ-inclusive Christmas books to read with your children? There aren’t many, but they do exist. Check them out (and learn why we still need more)!
Marlon Bundo to Return in (at Least) Two Books Next Year
Marlon Bundo, “the Bunny of the United States” who made headlines when he starred in a book by Charlotte Pence, daughter of Vice President Mike Pence, and in an alternative story produced by comedian John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, in which he marries his boyfriend, will be back next year in two more books.
LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Book Publisher Back for a 3rd Season
Flamingo Rampant micropress is getting ready to launch its third season of “feminist, racially diverse, LGBTQ positive children’s books”! I’ve always loved their joyous approach to inclusivity, and their next set of books looks sure to continue that tradition.
2018 Gift Guide to LGBTQ-Inclusive Children’s and Middle-Grade Books
It’s time for my annual roundup of some of this year’s best LGBTQ-inclusive children’s and middle-grade books and magazine! It was a banner year for such books in many ways, with a high overall volume and a surge in the often neglected middle-grade range.
New Book Box Service Seeks to Serve and Show Need for Diverse, LGBTQ-Inclusive Children’s Books
A new service, launched today by a queer mom and activist, offers subscribers a quarterly, curated selection of children’s books, chosen to include characters who are LGBTQ+, feminist, of various races and ethnicities, and of other under-represented identities. In doing so, it also hopes to show publishers there’s an ongoing market for such stories.
Books on LGBTQ History for Children of All Ages
LGBTQ History Month offers us a wonderful opportunity each October to look at the growing number of books for children and youth on LGBTQ history—including several that are new this year.
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.
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.