By Jennifer Miller, University of Texas at Arlington Presented at Children’s Literature Association Conference 2021 Contact: jennifermiller@uta.edu/@jlmiller516 I. Introduction My presentation, “(I Just Can’t Get No) Satisfaction: Locating Longing in […]
My book, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, has been delivered to the University Press of Mississippi! It will be available in hardcover, paperback, or EBook format June […]
Like many picture books about transgender or nonbinary youth, Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope (2021), is written by the mother of a transgender child. Author, […]
Written by Norene Paulson and illustrated by Anne Passchier, Benny’s True Colors (2020) is a story about a butterfly everyone thinks is a bat. Benny the butterfly is constantly misidentified, […]
Kerri Mullen’s Eli’s New Clothes (2020) is a sweetly illustrated story about a young girl named Chloe and her relationship to her favorite dolls. Chloe loves Elizabeth, Vanessa, and Caroline. […]
I’m Not A Girl (2020), co-written by Maddox Lyons and Jessica Verdi and illustrated by Dana Simpson, is the story of a transgender boy who develops clarity and confidence about […]
I’ve been researching and writing about LGBTQ+ picture books for about six years. My research and the difficulties I had identifying and accessing LGBTQ+ picture books prompted me to create […]
Written by Brad Meltzer and illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos, I am Billie Jean King, is a timely biography of activist and athlete Billie Jean King. Much of the text deals […]
The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived (1999), written by Daniel Errico and illustrated by Shiloh Penfield, follows Cedric, a young quick-witted boy who begins life on a pumpkin farm as […]
Margaret Baker-Street’s Michael and Me (2014) is a first-person narrative focused on a second-grade boy named Brian and his reaction to a classmate’s gender transition. The story opens at the […]
