Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books (Hardcover)

Chapter 1: Reading LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books: An Introduction
Jennifer Miller

Part 1: Representing LGBTQ+ Families in North American Picture Books
Chapter 2: From Roommates to Spouses: Shifting Representations of Marriage Equality in US Picture Books from 1995 to 2020
Jason Vanfosson
Chapter 3: "That’s Not a Family": Microaggressions, Resilience, and Agency in Depictions of Same-Sex-Parented Families
Dana Rudolph
Chapter 4: Representation Matters Now More Than Ever: Transgender and Nonbinary Parents in Children’s Picture Books
Rob Bittner

Part 2: Real(istic) Representations of GIaNTs in Picture Books
Chapter 5: Exceptional, Bullied, or Normal in the End: Representation of GIaNTs (Gender Independent, Nonbinary, and Trans) in Picture Books
j wallace skelton
Chapter 6: Be Who You Are!, I Am Jazz, I’m Not a Girl, and Sam! Picturing Trans Childhoods
Sara Austin

Part 3: Mapping Representations in European Picture Books
Chapter 7: The Road to Hell: Scandinavian LGBTQ+ Picturebooks
B. J. Woodstein
Chapter 8: Il y a plein de façons de composer une famille: Some Recent French-Language LGBTQ+ Picture Books
Tim Morris

Part 4: Queer(ing) Culture
Chapter 9: Many Dances, Many Regalias: Supporting the Two-Spirit Child in 47,000 Beads
Kaylee Jangula Mootz
Chapter 10: Queering Christmas: An Autoethnographic Author Interview about Publishing The Christmas Truck
J. Bradley Blankenship
Chapter 11: The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish: Playing Around with Gender and Celebrating Difference
River Vooris

Part 5: World Making in LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
Chapter 12: Apples Begone: Queer and Trans of Color Aesthetics of Joy in ABC Books
Isabel 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 Futures
Caitlin Howlett

Part 6: LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Children’s Picture Books
Chapter 14: AIDS and the Antisocial Subject in Queer Biographical Picture Books: A Case Study on Keith Haring
Gabriel Duckels
Chapter 15: Now vs. Then, Here vs. There: Queer Identity and Community in Picture-Book Biographies
Jennifer Miller

Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Index