Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection
Contact Mechanics' InstituteA route through small presses, feminist publishing, LGBT publishing networks, and community-made books that helped the genre take shape.
Lesléa Newman; illustrated by Diana Souza
A 1989 picture book about a child with two mothers, represented here through its In Other Words first-edition history and later public life.
Johnny Valentine; illustrated by Lynette Schmidt
A fairy-tale collection that places children with gay fathers and lesbian mothers inside enchanted plots and comic rule-making.
Johnny Valentine; illustrated by Lynette Schmidt
An Alyson Wonderland fantasy about children with two mothers and a machine that produces dads.
Muriel Douru
A French picture book about a child with two mothers and a school family-tree assignment.
Lucia Moreno Velo; illustrated by Javier Termenón
A bilingual Spanish-English picture book about Maite, Mama, Mami, and the many-colored force of family love.
Meredith Tax; illustrated by Marylin Hafner
A Spanish edition of a family-diversity picture book with locally noted coded lesbian-parent representation.
Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz
A Reach And Teach / PM Press coloring book that revises nursery-rhyme and fairy-tale gender roles.
Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak
A feminist Reach And Teach / PM Press coloring book about gender stereotypes and child-facing media.