The 2010 Rainbow Project Bibliography is out!
The Bibliography is a list of recommended titles for youth from birth to age 18 that contain “significant and authentic” GLBTQ content. The titles are chosen by the GLBT Round Table and the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association. This is not a list of every children’s book published with GLBTQ content, but rather a set of books chosen by librarians for both quality and content. The books for this year’s list were published between July 2008 and October 2009.
The Rainbow Project Web site has the full list. Below are the books on the list that I’ve written about here at Mombian, with links to my original posts.
- Lo, Malinda. Ash. Gr. 8+.
- Newman, Lesléa. Il. Carol Thompson. Daddy, Papa, and Me and Mommy, Mama, and Me. Pre-K.
- (The above entries were noted for exceptional merit, along with Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North, and Ed. Michael Cart’s How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity, which I have not read.)
- Polacco, Patricia. In Our Mother’s House. Gr. K-3.
- Walliams, David. Il. Quentin Blake. The Boy in the Dress. Gr. 3+.
- Ed. Mitchell Gold with Mindy Drucker. Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America. Gr. 7+.
- Hart, Melissa. Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood. Gr. 8+.
Congratulations to all the selected authors and illustrators!
Thanks for the post. It’s tough to find “family” books for the kids. I’ll check them out!
Thanks for spreading the word about the Rainbow List! I’m honored that Tillmon County Fire was included and send best wishes to all the other authors and illustrators, as well as readers (and blogger-readers!) everywhere.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Pamela, and congratulations!
We just stumbled on Mommy, Mama & Me in the board book section of our local library! What a cute, sweet, baby-friendly story. (We are on the stage where “Baby!” is the most exciting thing Josie can see, anywhere, at any time.)
We love Mommy, Mama, and Me. Our son loves to finish each rhyming sentence.