While my 3 year old is too young to get the various levels of this book she understands that it’s OK for people to dress how they want and my 7-year-old is old enough to understand that gender is not always black and white. Only Laurel an older girl who accepts Bailey as she views herself calls her a girl. What I love about this book is that while the narrator refers to Bailey as she all of Bailey’s family refers to Bailey as a boy. For me, I saw this as an opportunity to talk about adversity. His family is NOT accepting at all and you must know that. He tries to tell his family about his dreams, but they brush them off reminding Bailey he is a boy and boys shouldn’t dream of dresses. The book goes through all different things families do together and there is a big mix of same-sex parents, single parents, and bi-racial families all doing their thing… being together!ġ0,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert is a story about a little boy who doesn’t feel like a little boy and dreams of the most amazing dresses every night. I love that it’s not out to explain because the families in this book are just being families. This is a great book that normalizes same-sex weddings and focuses instead on the things that matter most to the children- how they are going to be affected.ĪBC A Family Alphabet Book by Bobbie Combs is a great alphabet book that doesn’t aim to explain same-sex families it just includes them. The issues are about how close Chloe is to Uncle Bobby and how she doesn’t want that to change. Now you might think that the issues are around the fact that he’s marrying another male guinea pig but that’s not it at all. Brannen is a sweet book about a little guinea pig Chloe and her issues with her uncle getting married. Here is my list of 21 positive children’s books about LBGT families. The kids that are made to feel shame when they should feel pride, the children who are unable to find books that represent the family they love so very much, and the kids that need books to act as a window to new understanding. The thing is this list isn’t about me, or the people I make mad by publishing it, it’s about the kids. Every year I get emails, facebook posts, and comments telling me why it is wrong to write this list. Every year in June I post a book list filled with LGBT positive books as an easy to access resource for anyone who needs it. This is my Pride Book List for Kids from 2017 for this year’s list of 90 LGBTQ+ positive books for children check out The 2021 Ultimate Pride Book List here.Īll families should be celebrated, all children should have a chance to see their family represented in picture books, and all children should be taught that families come in so many different combinations.
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