Diverse Books for Children: LGBTQ+ Booklist
Joshua Jernigan
Expanding Horizons: LGBTQ+ Books for Young Readers
Kids often experience the world for the first time through books. Having diverse books for children available to them helps expand their world in magnificent ways! Books help expose children to new ideas, new concepts, and new people they may have never known of otherwise. This booklist offers lgbtq+ books that are fun, whimsical, and diverse. Please check them out and enjoy watching your young readers see the world in a new perspective.
Diverse Books for Children: List
Age recommendations on this list were pulled from publisher listings and/or author interviews.
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When We Love Someone We Sing to Them by Ernesto Javier Martínez
Recommended for ages 6 to 10
Aalfred and Aalbert by Morag Hood
Recommended for ages 3 to 7
Stella Brings the Family by Miriam B. Schiffer
Recommended for ages 4 to 8
Be Amazing: A History of Pride by Desmond Napoles
Recommended for ages 3 to 7
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Little Miss Hot Mess
Recommended for ages 3 to 8
Keesha and Her Two Moms Go Swimming by Monica Bey-Clarke and Cheril Clarke
Recommended for ages 4 to 8
The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived by Daniel Errico
Recommended for ages 5 to 8
The Answer by Rebecca Sugar
Recommended for ages 8 to 12
Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
Recommended for ages 8 to 12
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Recommended for ages 8 to 12
Middle School’s A Drag by Greg Howard
Recommended for ages 10 to 13
The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
Recommended for ages 9 to 13
Riding Freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Recommended for ages 9 to 12
Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O’Neill
Recommended for ages 8 to 12
Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
Recommended for ages 10 to 13
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