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Emma and the Magic Moose
Jvala Devi
2006
Book
A fantasy picture book about a girl, a magic journey, and a return to her two mothers.
Overview
Emma and the Magic Moose is a 2006 picture book credited to Jvala Devi and listed in a public checklist of children's books featuring LGBT family members. The local catalog describes a colorfully illustrated fantasy in which Emma travels into a rainbow to meet a magic moose, then returns because she misses her parents and wants to share her happiness with them. The parents are two women. With little outside bibliography available, this record stays close to the local description. Its importance lies in how it places a two-mother family within a fairy-tale or dream-journey pattern rather than in a problem-centered account of family difference.[1][2]
Fantasy Frame
The local description emphasizes movement into a rainbow, an encounter with a magic moose, and a return home. That fantasy frame gives the book a different tone from many family-diversity titles that begin by explaining what makes a family. Here, the two mothers appear at the end as the home Emma misses and wants to include in her happiness.[1]
Rainbow And Return
Rainbow imagery can carry many meanings in LGBTQ contexts, but this record does not assume symbolic intent beyond the local description. What can be said carefully is that the rainbow journey gives visual and narrative shape to movement away from and back toward family. The book belongs in the collection because the parents waiting at that return point are two women.[1][2]
Small-Press Fragility
The public checklist places the title among 2000s books from Lulu.com and other small or self-publishing channels. Those books often met specific community needs but can leave little stable metadata behind. A collection record for Emma and the Magic Moose therefore does two things: it identifies the title for search and it preserves a trace of a family-representation book that may otherwise be hard to reconstruct.[2][3]
Timeline
Object Trail
The public trail identifies the title, creator, date, publisher, and two-mother family category; the held copy can add fuller physical detail.
2006
Lulu.com picture book
The title appears in a public LGBTQ-family children's-book checklist.
Explore Connections
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Linked records
Evan's Beard
Both titles appear in the same public checklist as 2006 Lulu.com picture books featuring two mothers.
References [2]
I Love Ewe
Both records show how LGBTQ-family themes can enter fantasy, fable, or animal-story modes rather than only realistic classroom or household scenes.
References [2]
Emma and Meesha My Boy
Both titles are part of the collection's wider two-mother picture-book field in the mid-2000s.
References [2]
Shared themes
Evan's Beard
A photographic picture book about a child, facial hair, and two mothers, recorded in an LGBTQ-family book checklist.
Your Family, My Family
An early many-family picture book that includes a child whose family has two mothers.
Heather Has Two Mommies
A 1989 picture book about a child with two mothers, represented here through its In Other Words first-edition history and later public life.
A Boy's Best Friend
An Alyson Wonderland picture book about asthma, bullying, a longed-for dog, and a two-mother household.
Nearby dates
Aitor tiene dos mamas
A Spanish edition of a Basque two-mother family story about school bullying, language, and public recognition.
At My House What Makes a Family is Love
An AuthorHouse picture book presenting many kinds of families, including two-mother and two-father households.
Buster's Sugartime
A Postcards from Buster book tie-in connected to a public broadcasting dispute over two-mother family representation.
Evan's Beard
A photographic picture book about a child, facial hair, and two mothers, recorded in an LGBTQ-family book checklist.
Citation
Emma and the Magic Moose. Jvala Devi. Lulu.com, 2006. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-034.
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Sources
- Local collection catalog record for Emma and the Magic Moose · catalog
- Checklist of Children's Books Featuring LGBT Family Members · bibliography
- Lulu, publishing platform overview · institutional