Lgbtq preschool books

20 Must-Read Picture Books With LGBTQ+ Families To Examine For LGBTQ+ Pride Month by Margaret Kingsbury

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, a time to bust out rainbow clothes and celebrate queer culture, history, identities, and families. It’s also the perfect time to stock up on picture books with LGBTQ+ themes to read for the entire year. In bright of the pervasive attempts of far-right groups to ban children’s books with queer characters, it’s even more critical to back these authors and illustrators.

The Washington Post recently reported that most book bans and challenges occur over books with LGBTQIA+ characters. A small contingent of the United States is attempting to erase entire identities by banning books. While most Americans are against book bans, bills that support them are being passed. Queer families exist, queer kids exist, and they deserve to see themselves in children’s books. It’s crucial for kids, regardless of their family structure, to see queer families in picture books to normalize LGBTQ+ identities, and to teach compassion and acceptance.

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15 LGBTQ Books From Preschool To High School

Editor&#;s Note: Our hearts are with the victims and families of the Orlando tragedy. This list of resources can help spark the conversation around love and acceptance for families and schools. 
The vast majority of the time, I write about makerspaces and learning through &#;making&#; and tinkering. But another part of my role at school is faculty advisor for our SAGA club&#;that&#;s our Sexuality and Gender Alliance club.
Once a week, my gaggle of middle schoolers gather to discuss LGBTQ issues and have &#;snowball fight&#; discussions (students anonymously write discussion topics or questions on Post-It notes, then we all crumple them up and fling them around the room&#; snowball fight!&#;to spread the questions around).
This spring, SAGA wanted to host a table at our school book fair, with books focused on LGBTQ characters. Given the potentially sensitive nature of LGBTQ storylines, I plowed through several dozen LGBTQ children&#;s and young-adult books to &#;vet&#; our recommendations for the table. Though it was incredibly

LGBTQIA+ Booklists and Resources

A collection of booklists and resources that highlight the LGBTQIA+ community and experience. This list provides resources and educational materials for kids of all ages and their caregivers to promote respect and understanding, including guidance on pronouns and identities. 

To recognize and celebrate the activism, culture, and history of the LGBTQIA+ community, the CBC has curated an up-to-date list of new and backlist books. This list was created in June of and we will add books throughout the year.

You can also download the list as a spreadsheet!

Discover books that celebrate love in all forms and underline LGBTQIA+ icons and activities. Allies welcome!

Young Adult and Children&#;s Booklists

Educational Resources

  • GLSEN’s Rainbow Library offers to verb out free LGBTQIA+ books and ebooks to schools in most states. Other states are welcome to submit an application and join. They also provide Elementary Lesson Plans (with Additional Curricular Resources below) for teachers. 
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide: LGBTQ+ You

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    • A cute board novel that goes into the colors of the rainbow flag and little promises from a parent to love their child, no matter their identity.

    • This publication gives a quick introduction to different types of genders.

    • The best way to describe this noun is as a metaphor for non-binary individuals. There once was a being who didn't fit into the binary of "this" or "that." Those who fit into the binary of this or that decided that the being who didn't fit must be…

    • This book is about the identity of a boy and how he chooses to express himself through his love of dresses. It shows the uncertainty of his parents at first and their movement to be supportive. The book is warm, wonderfully illustrated, and hits on…

    • "Pride" focuses on the story of Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay people to be elected into political office in the United States. One of the biggest symbols in this book is the apply of a rainbow flag during Milk's campaign to fight for…

    • All his family and friends believed he was a red crayon,