Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books

Jennifer Miller is a high school English teacher in Arlington, Texas. She researches LGBTQ+ children’s picture books, digital culture, and subcultures. She is author of The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, published by University Press of Mississippi, and a contributing editor to Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies: A Cross Disciplinary Approach. Sara Austin is assistant professor of English at Kentucky Wesleyan College. She is author of Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States. Her interest in race, gender, and childhood identity has yielded articles in Transformative Works and Cultures, The Lion and the Unicorn, The Looking Glass: New Perspectives in Children’s Literature, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, International Research in Children’s Literature, Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, Adaptation, and The Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics.

• Chapter 1: Reading LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books: An IntroductionJennifer MillerPart 1: Representing LGBTQ+ Families in North American Picture BooksChapter 2: From Roommates to Spouses: Shifting Representations of Marriage Equality in US Picture Books from 1995 to 2020Jason VanfossonChapter 3: "That’s Not a Family": Microaggressions, Resilience, and Agency in Depictions of Same-Sex-Parented FamiliesDana RudolphChapter 4: Representation Matters Now More Than Ever: Transgender and Nonbinary Parents in Children’s Picture BooksRob BittnerPart 2: Real(istic) Representations of GIaNTs in Picture BooksChapter 5: Exceptional, Bullied, or Normal in the End: Representation of GIaNTs (Gender Independent, Nonbinary, and Trans) in Picture Booksj wallace skeltonChapter 6: Be Who You Are!, I Am Jazz, I’m Not a Girl, and Sam! Picturing Trans ChildhoodsSara AustinPart 3: Mapping Representations in European Picture BooksChapter 7: The Road to Hell: Scandinavian LGBTQ+ PicturebooksB. J. WoodsteinChapter 8: Il y a plein de façons de composer une famille: Some Recent French-Language LGBTQ+ Picture BooksTim MorrisPart 4: Queer(ing) CultureChapter 9: Many Dances, Many Regalias: Supporting the Two-Spirit Child in 47,000 BeadsKaylee Jangula Mootz Chapter 10: Queering Christmas: An Autoethnographic Author Interview about Publishing The Christmas TruckJ. Bradley BlankenshipChapter 11: The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish: Playing Around with Gender and Celebrating DifferenceRiver VoorisPart 5: World Making in LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture BooksChapter 12: Apples Begone: Queer and Trans of Color Aesthetics of Joy in ABC BooksIsabel Millán Chapter 13: Children’s Imagination and the Desire for Something Different: Nonhuman Subjects in LGBTQ+ Children’s Literature and the Possibility of More Just FuturesCaitlin HowlettPart 6: LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Children’s Picture BooksChapter 14: AIDS and the Antisocial Subject in Queer Biographical Picture Books: A Case Study on Keith HaringGabriel DuckelsChapter 15: Now vs. Then, Here vs. There: Queer Identity and Community in Picture-Book BiographiesJennifer MillerAcknowledgmentsAbout the ContributorsIndex