These three recent queer-inclusive middle grade novels variously explore personal growth, friendship, crushes, gender, and more. Share them with the young people you know (and read them yourself to marvel at the great stories being told today)!
As we start the school year, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at four picture books from the 1970s and 80s showing queer families and children in school and daycare settings. Such books have been around longer than you might think.
Pride isn’t the only holiday that LGBTQ families and individuals celebrate! These two brand-new picture books and a chapter book show queer families and people finding joy with their communities and traditions during a variety of holidays.
One of the most delightful things about trying to review every single LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ book is that sometimes I spot fun combinations—like these two recent middle grade novels, each very different, but both involving goats—and both great. I kid you not!
Today is Gay Uncles Day—and gay (and other queer) uncles have been featured in children’s books since 1989! Here are more than two dozen of them (and a few for grown-ups), including some brand new ones, to help you celebrate these special people today and any day!
Two brand-new chapter book series star nonbinary protagonists and aren’t “about” being nonbinary. One features a witch-in-training at a magical bakery, while the other centers a kid who wants to create positive change for their friends, their school, and themself.
Five picture books and five middle grade titles are among the finalists announced yesterday for the 37th Lambda Literary Awards. Let’s take a closer look at the titles and the significance of the awards.
Happy International Drag Day! Get into the mood and keep the glitter going all year with these 18 board, picture, chapter, and middle grade books featuring drag performers.
Today is International Nonbinary People’s Day, but you can keep the spirit going all year long with these great board, picture, early reader, and middle grade books that have nonbinary protagonists.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision saying that parents have the right to opt out their children before LGBTQ-inclusive books are read in public school classrooms is awful for many reasons. I want to focus here, though, on one that may feel amorphous but that should be at the heart of our response: its attack on queer joy.
