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Gay picture book

I love that more and more LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books are not just “about” being LGBTQ, but instead show LGBTQ people in the fullness of their lives. The downside is that sometimes these books can be complicated to find. Here are 10 picture books you may own missed because the queer inclusion isn’t evident from the cover or title and aren’t on many lists of LGBTQ-inclusive books. These are all tales of daily life and gentle heartfelt lessons — but just transpire to have queer protagonists or families!

“Too Green!” By Sumana Seeboruth, illustrated by Maribel Castells (Barefoot Books). A young child declares his dislike of the grassy vegetables his mama brings house. He’d rather have the bread his mum is making. But after his mama involves him in making soup from the vegetables and persuades him to try a sip, he discovers he actually likes it, and joyously asks for more. Also available in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.

“Awake, Asleep,” by Kyle Lukoff, illustrated by Nadia Alam (Orchard Books). In his first volume for young children, Lukoff — a two-time Stonewall Award winner and Na

LGBTQIA+-Friendly Picture Books

 

The James P. Adams Library is proud to be the abode of the LGT–Friendly Children’s Book Collection.  With Professor Rowell's help, the Library has been fit to collect and preserve this extensive, historical collection of gay-friendly picture books for young children.

 

“Today, most early childhood programs and elementary schools offer a wide array of multicultural and multiracial books so that children can observe themselves as adv as learn about others.  The next step is for programs and schools to choose a wider range of materials that portray children from all family configurations, including those having lgbtq+ and lesbian and transgender parents. Some children will notice confirmed and others will learn about families different from their own.

The two moms or dads are referred to as parents, and sometimes they are portrayed showing outward signs of warmth, such as one having an arm around the other’s shoulder.  Young children from same-sex parent families can acknowledge themselves, and

University Libraries

19th and even 18th century adults wrote about their fears of same-sex relationships, especially between young people, in medical and psychological texts.  Remember that true children's literature is a late 19th Century invention, and most books that children read were actually written for adults. While childhood is still supposed to be an age of innocence from any sexual knowledge, many novels include teen relationships that seem to modern eyes homoerotic (Tom Brown's Schooldays (), Ragged Dick (), Little Women(), Huckleberry Finn(), Anne of Green Gables (), A Separate Harmony ()), but acknowledged LGBTQ characters do not appear until . . . .  

  • Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman
    Call Number: PZ7.N He
    Publication Date: (2nd ed.) ()
    Amazon ‘Look Inside this title’ here

    First published in , and often hailed as the "first homosexual book for children," Heather was also for many years the most frequently challenged children's book. The most common theme in picture books is still the happy family with L

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    As advertised above, the covers are magnificent! Cool sticker with the fridge magnet letter font too. The book was edited by Michael Emory and published by Contemporary Books Inc, Chicago,  
     


    Not sure what you noticed first? For us it was the Union Jack flying on the building next door. Excellent photo composition whichever way you look at it. Perfect escapism from this British winter that's for sure. 
     


    Photo by Michael Emory. That is a really, really good shirt - twice. 
     


    This way up to tan your soles. Very seventies patterns and colours. 
     


    What can you say? Even more novelty in the one to the right. 
     


    This is what this book is. Visual history. There is a message. But that's done with in a few pages. Then it's just snaps. Pictures you can read. 
     


    Back cover lovers. 

    We have two copies of The Homosexual Picturebook. That's one more than we have had at one time