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Books for Kids

From Penguins to Chicken Butts: Diversity and Subversion in Children’s Books

“Guess what?” “Chicken Butt!” The classic schoolyard gag has found new life in Chicken Butt!, a picture book by critically acclaimed children’s author Erica Perl. There is nothing LGBT-specific about the story, but Perl’s illustrator is Henry Cole, the prolific artist who also did the drawings for Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson’s And Tango Makes […]

Penguin Three-peat!

For the third year in a row, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s And Tango Makes Three, about two male penguins who care for an orphaned egg and raise a chick, tops the American Library Association’s (ALA) Top Ten list of the Most Frequently Challenged Books. This despite the fact that the book is based on

“She Got Me Pregnant”: Episode 64

This week, Helen and I are celebrating 16 years together! We also discuss the joys of classic Disney films (with or without a young Angela Lansbury), and how children’s movies have changed over the years, not necessarily for the better. For bonus points, we demonstrate the fun fold-out action of the Panorama book I blogged

A Book Recommendation for National Poetry Month

It’s National Poetry Month, and while I dislike the idea of constraining poetry to one month (same for women’s history, black history, etc.), I see no reason not to use it as an occasion to celebrate. I’ll be doing a variety of poetry-related pieces throughout the month. Stay tuned. I’ll start with a book recommendation:

Lambda Award Finalists: Children’s/Young Adult

The 21st Lambda Literary Award finalists were announced this week. The six finalists for the LGBT Children’s/Young Adult category are fine books all, although I’m a little disappointed none of them show LGBT parents—as important as it also is to show LGBT kids. Actually, Hit the Road, Manny, is about a gay male nanny, so

Book Recommendations: Shape; The Coloring Book

Here’s my third book-recommendation post in honor of the Share a Story – Shape a Future Blog Tour for Literacy. (Here are the first and second.) Today’s books take an artistic turn. Both are from Abrams Books for Young Readers, and published in conjunction with Britain’s Tate Museum. David Goodman and Zoe Miller’s Shape has

Book Recommendations: All In a Day; City I Love

Here’s my second book-recommendation post in honor of the Share a Story – Shape a Future Blog Tour for Literacy. (The first is here; if you count my mention of the Harvey Milk book yesterday, then this is really the third book post this week.) I’m going to highlight two new picture books today, both

Book Recommendation: Panorama

As promised, I’m going to be doing a bunch of book recommendations this week to help promote the Share a Story – Shape a Future Blog Tour for Literacy. Thanks to Green Dads for alerting me to the event. As it happens, the fine publicity department at Abrams Books for Young Readers sent me a

Children’s Literacy Blog Event

Thanks to Steven at Book Dads for letting me know about Share a Story – Shape a Future: A Blog Tour for Literacy, which will kick off one week from now on March 9. The tour is “an ensemble effort not only to celebrate reading among those of us who already love books, but to

10,000 Dresses” Celebrates Transgender Children

Beginning with the vibrant sunburst and smiling child on its cover, Marcus Ewert’s 10,000 Dresses is a joyous book about self-acceptance and identity. It is also the only children’s picture book that features an openly transgender protagonist, and does so with both sensitivity and celebration. Young Bailey dreams of 10,000 beautiful dresses made of crystals,

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