#queer kids books

[zenaidamacrouras1]

My 6 year old son looking at this picture:

"I think those two boys are just very very very good friends who love each other like friends, because two boys can only fall in love and get married in real life, not in books or shows."

(while reading Prince and Knight and the sequel, Shadow King, which are wonderful childrens picture books where the two male main characters are definitely gay and get married. We have read these books before a hundred times, but apparently he doesn't remember because he went on a year long binge of only reading books about kids who have their own unicorn, which, fair.)

Please share me your queer kids books! We have a stack of books about boys who wear dresses (by request from my boy who wears dresses) but apparently not enough with queer romance!

#Everything needs to be more gay #Gay childrens books #Send me your queer childrens media #No he hasn't seen Nimona it's too scary for him #My kids are huge babies about scary stuff #I'm going to have to write them myself #Queer kids books #Prince and knight

[diversityinkidsbooks]

All You Need Is Love By Shanni Collins

All families come in different shapes and sizes, but they are all special when they love and respect each other. These rhyming stories are a celebration of the diversity of families and encourage inclusion and acceptance in a child's relationships. By promoting diversity and understanding in family life and elsewhere, these stories support a positive approach to life at a young age, which fosters strong mental health and well-being. Each page is dedicated to a different family, with stories exploring adoption, fostering, disability, race, gender, and illness. Filled with humour and delightfully illustrated, children will love reading these stories with friends, family and in school again and again. 

#trans books #queer books #queer kids books #kids books #childrens books #disabled characters

[crunchycrystals]

this makes me want to cry

#crunchyposts #pjo #pjotv #guys i also have been obsessed with this series for years it means so much to me that the actors are also fans of the book #it doesnt mention it here but i know leah's said that she was so excited to play annabeth to be 'the girl in her brothers books' #since she got his old copies when he left for college (?) #this means absolutely everything to me rep in media means so much to me bc of how little i understood myself as a kid since i never saw #anyone like me and pjo was the first time i saw someone whse brain was kidna like mine and so many things clicked into place after that #and as a queer girl and someone who's south east asian i rarely saw anyone like me on tv and ive still never seen any demiro char on screen #but now they actually have a non white nd character and its /my/ favorite character and its gonna mean so much to younger black girls #100 #150 #200 #300 #400 #500 #1k #1.5k #2k

[transbookoftheday]

Leave Trans Kids Alone

Inspired by David Tennant's "Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks" shirt, here are some amazing trans middle grade and picture books you should read:

Book titles:

99% Chance of Magic by Amy Eleanor Heart, Abbey Darling and Luna Merbruja

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith

Jamie by L.D. Lapinski

Camp QUILTBAG by Nicole Melleby and A. J. Sass

Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

Moonflower by Kacen Callender

Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley and Lisa Bunker

Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass

Girl Haven by Lilah Sturges, Meaghan Carter and Joamette Gil

Obie Is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino

The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson

Both Can Be True by Jules Machias

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O'Neill

Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff

Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley

Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee

The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean

Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth Lapensee, KC Oster and Aarin Dokum

Skating on Mars by Caroline Huntoon

Tally the Witch by Molly Landgraff

The Beautiful Something Else by Ash Van Otterloo

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith

The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

The One Who Loves You the Most by medina

Me and My Dysphoria Monster by Laura Kate Dale and Hui Qing Ang

When Aidan Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita

Calvin by J.R. Ford, Vanessa Ford and Kayla Harren

#trans books #middle grade books #picture books #trans book of the day #queer books #transmasc #transfem #nonbinary #david tennant #good omens #leave trans kids alone

[pisshandkerchief]

why do you mean you have trouble discovering new music. back in my day we got our obscure music recs from the welcome to night vale weather and we fucking liked it

#welcome to night vale was the first place I ever heard songs with swearing and references to sex. it was literally life changing #especially for a queer kid like me #incidentally welcome to night vale was some of the first media I ever consumed #(aside from educational children's books) #that had out queer characters #Welcome to night vale is fucking magical. #The main character is a gay Jewish dude with aids who is just. Peak queer joy. #He loves his husband so much it literally drives the story sometimes. also he's probably nonbinary #This generation is missing out #welcome to night vale

[bodhrancomedy]

I got a suggestion from someone in the industry that I should write a tv pilot for a folk horror comedy about twenty-somethings set in my home village (or a version of my home village), but I very much have a hankering to start a kids fantasy detective book about a bunch of servants/low ranking apprentices solving a murder in a rural castle.

#deaf #queer #writing #folk horror #kids books #kid detectives #polls

[hurymurry]

#wings of fire #wof #dragon enjoyers 👀👀👀 diagonsed with gay unfortunately #books #gay #queer books #creditionals: little kid with a library card and burgeoning gender identity crisis #legit was in there every day #the librarian had a lizard how could I not #I realize I misspelled two thing but that will not stop my truth (do not want to correct it)

[theartofangirling]

part 1 of the 2023 version of this post: middle grade books!

part 2: young adult books | part 3: adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇️

the tea dragon society by k. o'neill

mooncakes by suzanne walker and wendy xu

the witch boy by molly knox ostertag

the deep and dark blue by niki smith

the magic fish by trung le nguyen

the hidden oracle by rick riordan

strangeworlds travel agency by l.d. lapinski

ellie engle saves herself by leah johnson

ivy aberdeen's letter to the world by ashley herring blake

hurricane season by nicole melleby

ana on the edge by a.j. sass

the ship we built by lexie bean

the pants project by cat clarke

#lgbtq+ books #queer books #middle grade books #lgbtq+ kids books #book recommendations #book flow chart #gay books #part 1 of 3! #mp

[mkzmerryfriend]

Highly recommend the Seaweed Brain podcast for anyone that doesn’t understand the importance and impact of the sun and the star, they go into such deep detail through each chapter and what each decision in the story means and why it is the way it is, I genuinely couldn’t fully appreciate tsats before I listened to their podcast episodes about it

I already loved it, but I had fried my brain reading so much leading up to tsats and so much went over my head until I listened to those episodes

#tsats #the sun and the star #solangelo #please for the love of the gods listen to their eps on tsats and then form your opinion #this book is really important for queer kids to have access to #and non queer kids too tbh #you might just not fully appreciate what it’s doing because you’re used to something else

[itgetsbetterproject]

Oh look, another student crushing the competition to help support LGBTQ+ kids on their school board.

You simply love to see it. :')

#itgetsbetter #queer youth #lgbtq youth #queer kids #book banning #school board #vote #student leader #student activist #climate activism

[prince-liest]

I’m reading Witch King by Martha Wells, and now that I have read more than one (1) series by this author, I have been suddenly brained with a two-by-four sharpied over with “realizing that I really enjoy novels by Martha Wells because they live in the specific niche created by the intersection of casually and thoroughly queer casts and non-romance storylines”

I am as ever a sucker for non-human main characters struggling with their very human feelings, which is why I jumped on Witch King the moment I saw “the author of Murderbot wrote another book with a main character that’s non-human,” but I live in this dichotomy where I can really enjoy reading queer romances but I don’t really identify with non-ace characters (which is not actually something I figured out how to differentiate until I was Last Week Years Old). so there are lots of books out there that I enjoy reading but it’s comparatively rare for me to read something that feels like it was written For Me and Martha Wells does that very well

anyway, give me more ace it-pronouns human-spliced robot main characters and people-eating demons who consider rank over gender when finding new bodies to inhabit

#text posts #martha wells #witch king #personal #her castes and universes are also very culturally and ethnically diverse but I've had ace-ness on the mind lately #so it was relevant to my ongoing thoughts #I never really read books that are advertised as specific types of diversity representation #especially with queer books what I like to read is books that are very queer but aren't ABOUT being queer #so I tend to steer clear when people are like read this the mc is a nonbinary lesbian witch without even really saying what the plot is #but martha wells writes books that are queer and brown and INFLUENCED by being queer and brown but #the characters still get to have their stories be ABOUT whatever fun sci fi fantasy shenanigans are ongoing #((inb4: this is my preference not an overal value judgment)) #((I just want to read the same books I read when I was a little kid and have them just ALSO be lovingly diverse)) #((and I only really read SFF)) #in other news I was trying to figure out how to name my flavor of ace #and then I looked up the difference between demi and gray #and I realized gray is what I am looking for #very very dark gray

[zenaidamacrouras1]

Are you aware of the Prince and Knight book by Daniel Haack?

There's also a sequel:

Spoiler alert: The Shadow King is not actually evil, just sad because he wants to wear dresses and date men and wasn't allowed to. Important to know because this book deeply troubled my children who could not understand why the Shadow King wasn't allowed to wear dresses and why it was a problem that he loved a squire.

#Strong stucky vibes #queer kids books #I try to avoid queer kids books where the characters have negative repercussions for being queer #my kids have honestly no idea that there is a world out there where it's strange to be queer #and I am very curious how long they can make it in life without them realizing #because more and more kids just don't give a fuck #And if you don't set them up to notice gender policing comments they honestly don't even notice most of them because they make no sense

[diversityinkidsbooks]

Being Me In Penguin Land: Non-Binary By GIRES

Blur’s story is about an identity that is neither boy nor girl (non-binary, gender queer).

#trans books #queer kids books #kids books #childrens books

[ukarimo]

"I have no sense of myself anymore besides the fact that I am not what I once was. I'm too tired to see my body from the eyes of others, in the terrible way trans-ness demands—always existing both inside and outside of myself, judging as an observer." Andrew Joseph White.

Please read Hell Followed with Us!!! It's a new favorite of mine.

#Its about queer kids killing white christians nationalists... #Like come on thats amazing! #Also monsters #Hell followed with us #Benji #Seraph #Andrew Joseph white #Book fanart #Digital #Ukarimo

[harryzroze]

Fem Wukong that appeared in my figure study prac >:)

#art #fanart #drawing #digital art #my art #sketch #sun wukong #lmk #lmk sun wukong #Lego monkie kid #lmk fanart #the monkey king #fem wukong #fem sun wukong #u can read this as trans fem if u like #or gender queer all headcanons r fun in my books #drawings #monkey king #monkie kid #soft #warm #macaque #six eared macaque #OMG WAIT I FORGOT HIS EARS TF #HOW DID I JUST NOTICE WHAT

[archivlibrarianist]

"'I grew up a queer teen on the fringes, and didn't feel like the world was made for me,' [New Jersey librarian Jenna] Ingham tells Yahoo Life. 'The goal is to be there for the teens, to make them feel seen, to make them feel valid.' Because, Ingham adds, "When you see yourself reflected back at you in the book, you feel like there is a place for you.'

"...'I had a teen tell me I was the only adult in their life that respects their pronouns,' Ingham shares. 'I recently had a trans teen come out to me. I had only just met them, but after 25 minutes of conversation they felt comfortable. I believe I was the first person they said it out loud to.'"

#libraries #librarians #library workers #tumblarians #teen services #YA services #banned books #censorship #school libraries #public libraries #LGBTQIA+ #protect queer kids #protect queer youth