Not Ready Yet!
Tamsin Walker
Published 2009
Book
An Onlywomen Press picture book about a camping trip with a child, his mother, and his mother's girlfriend.
Overview
Not Ready Yet! is a 2009 picture book by Tamsin Walker, published by Onlywomen Press Ltd. Public bookseller and resource-list records give the ISBN, 28-page paperback format, UK production, and author-illustrator credit. The Women's Bookshop describes Fran, Jay, and Jay's Mama going on a camping holiday with new friends, kite flying, tent nights, and reluctance to go home. Out For Our Children lists the title for ages two to seven and describes the family as a child, mum, and mum's girlfriend. The record is modest but coherent: it places same-sex-parent family life in ordinary leisure rather than conflict or explanation.[2][3][1]
Camping Story
The available summaries make the plot domestic and recreational. Jay, his mother, and Fran go camping; the family makes friends, flies a kite, sleeps in a tent, and comes to enjoy the trip. The same-sex-parent family structure is present, but the story's conflict is the child's reluctance and adjustment to an outing.[2][3][1]
Onlywomen Context
Onlywomen Press and Out For Our Children form the strongest network around this item. The collection includes other Onlywomen-linked titles, and those records show a UK route for early-years books about families with same-sex parents. Not Ready Yet! adds a camping and everyday-leisure example to that group.[2][3][4]
Ordinary Representation
The title does not appear to build its plot around legal status, coming out, or family defense. Its public descriptions emphasize rhythm, images, holiday pleasures, and the child's changing response to the trip. That ordinary mode is useful for collection visitors because it shows how later picture books could include same-sex-parent households without making representation the sole subject.[3][2][1]
Timeline
- 2009PublicationThe Women's Bookshop gives March 1, 2009 as the publication date.[2]
- 2009Bibliography listingThe COSMV bibliography lists Not Ready Yet! within its picture-book records of LGBT-parent families.[4]
- 2009Resource-list circulationOut For Our Children lists the title as a UK picture book for ages two to seven.[3]
Known Edition
Public records point to a 2009 Onlywomen Press paperback.
2009
Onlywomen Press paperback
ISBN 9780906500996, 28 pages, with Tamsin Walker credited as author and illustrator in bookseller metadata.
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Linked records
Shared themes
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If I Had a Hundred Mummies
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An Onlywomen Press early-years title in the collection's UK two-mother picture-book cluster.
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Citation
Not Ready Yet!. Tamsin Walker. Onlywomen Press Ltd, 2009. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-104.
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Sources
Cover image from The Women's Bookshop.
- Local catalog seed for Not Ready Yet! · catalog
- The Women's Bookshop record for Not Ready Yet! · bookseller
- Out For Our Children children's-books list · resource_list
- Children's Books Portraying LGBT Parents · bibliography
- Research status index · internal