3 New Picture Books Starring Gender Creative Characters
The LGBTQ-inclusive picture books just keep on coming! Here are three new ones with gender creative protagonists that variously offer beauty, inspiration, and silliness.
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4 New Drag Queen Picture Books
Four—yes, four!—new picture books are out this year that celebrate drag queens—kid drag queens, dad drag queens, librarian drag queens, and more! These queens are serving books!
“The Gender Identity Guide for Parents” Offers Advice for ALL Parents
A thoughtful and practical new guide is intended to help all parents understand gender identity and expression, have healthy conversations with their children about gender, and create an affirming environment, whether their children are transgender, cisgender, nonbinary, gender expansive, or questioning.
A Girl in a Suit and a Boy in a Tutu: New Picture Books Celebrate Gender Creativity
A cheery new picture book stars a girl who has a vision for the suit she wants to wear, complete with tie and slicked-back hair; another one stars a boy who loves to dance in a tutu!
More New Picture Books on Gender Identity and Expression
Coming out this week and next are two picture books featuring transgender girls (one told from her sibling’s perspective), one about a kid whose mom is a transgender man, and one about a boy who wants to dance ballet!
Gonzo of “Muppet Babies” Is Gender Creative
Gonzo, the blue alien character in Disney Junior’s Muppet Babies reboot, is gender creative! An episode last week showed him donning a princess dress, with his friends offering unconditional acceptance.
“Jacob’s School Play: Starring He, She, and They” Introduces Nonbinary Character to Popular Series
Jacob and Sophie are back! The gender-creative children we met in Jacob’s New Dress and Jacob’s Room to Choose appear again in a third book of the series, as we’re introduced to a new character who uses “they” pronouns.
“My Shadow Is Pink” Shows the Love of a Dad
A young child, assigned male at birth but whose “shadow is pink,” finds acceptance and love from his burly, masculine, blue-shadowed dad in a new picture book inspired by the author and his child’s real-life story.
Nonbinary, Gender Creative Children Summon Courage in New Picture Books
Two new picture books, including one in English and Spanish, show nonbinary and gender creative children being proud and confident even as they face bias. This post is also my contribution to Multicultural Children’s Book Day today! #ReadYourWorld
Imagination and Community in Two New Picture Books with Nonbinary and Gender Creative Characters
Two new picture books show us nonbinary and gender creative kids having imaginative adventures in their fun, welcoming, queer and sometimes magical communities.