Iโm honored and ecstatic to be nominated for another Lammy Award! It means the world for THE BI BOOK by Cynthia Alonso & me to be recognized by @lambdaliterary.org! So often the B in LGBTQ+ is ignored. Thank you for celebrating this picture book & the bi+ community! ๐ฉท๐๐ #kidlit #queerkidlit #booksky
Iโm overjoyed to see THE BI BOOK by Cynthia Alonso and me alongside these incredible books! Congratulations to the other finalists! Keep shining for the kiddos and making the world a better place with your beautiful stories! ๐ ๐ #kidlit #booksky #queerkidlit #lgbtqbooks #lammyawards
It's a bit frustrating that I've written a cool children's book with polyamorous family with nerdy elements and most people who I tell want to read it but I can't get any agent interested in it yet. Anyone out there?
#amquerying #PictureBooks #kidlit #OwnVoices #QueerKidLit #WritingCommunity
Now is a great time to start my middle grade paranormal mystery series, Dotty Morgan Supernatural Sleuth. From Monday March 2 to Friday March 6, Book One, The Case of the French Fry Phantom will be free for Kindle. Pick up a copy and get started. #queerkidlit #freebooks
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Boosting for time zones.
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SUCH A BUSY SUNDAY is not about overcoming homophobia in the church, it's just a joyful story that takes for granted both sexuality & faith. Forthcoming in April from the United Church of Christ, with illustrations by Mati Ark: thepilgrimpress.com/products/suc...
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Authors might be better served to try smaller presses. Or even the micropresses who focus on LGBTQ+ books.
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A reminder that my board books with rainbow families ๐, illustrated by Elina Braslina (banned in Hungary & Russia) are now available in over 40 languages:
BEDTIME
www.orcabook.com/Bedtime-Not-...
MORNING
www.orcabook.com/Early-One-Mo...
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A spread from BEDTIME, NOT PLAYTIME written by Lawrence Schimel & illustrated by Elina Braslina. Shows girl with her two bearded dads (with diff skin tones) reading a book together while dog peers over shoulder, jealous no one is paying attention to him. (Book is about a girl with two dads who is trying to get ready for bed but dog wants to play.)
A spread from EARLY ONE MORNING written by Lawrence Schimel & illustrated by Elina Braslina. Shows lesbian moms in bed asleep and also sister. (Book is about a boy with two moms who wakes early, only one awake is the cat--hijinks ensue.)
A photo showing many of the different translations of the books, published separately or in a bindup edition.
Screenshot of an article from THE GUARDIAN about a bookshop in Budapest being fined by the Hungarian government for not warning customers that the book contained "non traditional" families. ##### Hungary fines bookshop chain over picture book depicting LGBT families Lira Kรถny made to pay ยฃ600 for failing to clearly indicate the story featured 'a family that is different than a normal family' Alison Flood Thu 8 Jul 2021 13.09 BST A bookshop chain in Hungary has been fined for selling a children's story depicting a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents, with officials condemning the picture book for featuring such families. The picture book, Micsoda csalรกd!, is a Hungarian translation combining two titles by US author Lawrence Schimel and illustrator Elina Braslina: Early One Morning, which shows a young boy's morning with his two mothers, and Bedtime, Not Playtime!, in which a young girl with two fathers is reluctant to go to sleep. Reuters reported that the 250,000 forints (ยฃ600) fine was imposed on the bookshop chain Lira Kรถny by Pest county, the local authority for the area surrounding Budapest.
Since this is blowing up, a reminder that you can find my board books with rainbow families, illustrated by Elina Braslina (banned in Hungary & Russia) in over 40 languages now:
BEDTIME
www.orcabook.com/Bedtime-Not-...
MORNING
www.orcabook.com/Early-One-Mo...
#booksky #kidlit #lgbtq #queerkidlit
Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are โstepping backโ from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
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The front and back cover of SUCH A BUSY SUNDAY, written by Lawrence Schimel & illustrated by Mati Ark. Front cover shows one side of a church with a diverse mix of people in the pews, with rays of light shining through the stained glass windows and illuminating brother and sister who are walking down the aisle looking for where the family will sit. Back cover has a brief description of the story, then a spot illo of Tina playing with dog, in same green shirt and purple skirt as on front cover, who is wearing a hat, then bios for author and illustrator. https://bookshop.org/p/books/such-a-busy-sunday-lawrence-schimel/df2a95ee3e12e331?ean=9780829805109&next=t #affirmingChurch #lgbtqChristian #lgbtChristian #progressiveFaith #LoveIsLove #InclusiveChurch
SUCH A BUSY SUNDAY (illust. by Mati Ark), forthcoming Apr 1, is not about homophobia in the Church or being different, just a fun picture book about 2 kids with 2 dads who go to church as part of their very busy Sunday, taking for granted both sexuality & faith.
#booksky #queerkidlit #kidlit #lgbtq
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report CELEBRATE SHABBAT WITH MOMMY, MAMA, AND ME, HAPPY SHABBAT FROM DADDY, PAPA, AND ME By Leslea Newman, Zara Gonzalez Hoang Imprint: Knopf Children's Leslea Newman's CELEBRATE SHABBAT WITH MOMMY, MAMA, AND ME and HAPPY SHABBAT FROM DADDY, PAPA, AND ME, each following a LGBTQ+ family as they prepare for Shabbat together with prayer, candles, challah-and lots of love, illustrated by Zara Gonzalez Hoang, to Rotem Moscovich at Knopf Children's, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2027, by Elizabeth Harding at Curtis Brown for the author, and by Andrea Morrison at Writers House for the illustrator (world). Children's: Picture Book Fiction January 5, 2026
Mazel tov, @leslea.bsky.social & @zarprey.bsky.social ! ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐
Also @spanishbroom.bsky.social & @curtisbrownltd.bsky.social !
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Stoked to see THE BI BOOK by Cynthia Alonso & me included in this fabulous holiday gift guide of 2025 LGBTQ+ picture books and chapter books! Thank you, @mombian.bsky.social! ๐ ๐ ๐ #kidlit #queerkidlit #booksky
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Fyi for anyone near Manchester:
Future-Proofing Equality in Children's Fiction Symposium
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
With @robinstevenson.bsky.social @jakehope.bsky.social @erikadraws.bsky.social + many more.
#kidlituk #kidlit #queerkidlit #inclusion #censorship #bookbans #fightingback
A photo of me at the stand of the Faroe Islands at the Frankfurter Buchmesse #fbm25 holding copies of SEINT UM KVรLDIฤ and TรฤLIGA UM MORGUNIN, the Faroese translations of BEDTIME, NOT PLAYTIME! and EARLY ONE MORNING.
At the Frankfurter Buchmesse last week I got our copies of the Faroese translation by Julia Rutt Petersen of my 2 #RainbowFamilies children's books illustrated by Elฤซna Brasliลa.
Faroese is the 43rd language these books have been translated into!
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These three recent queer-inclusive middle grade novels variously explore personal growth, friendship, crushes, gender, and more. Share them with the young people you know (and read them yourself to marvel at the great stories being told today)! #QueerKidLit #BookSky mombian.com/2025/09/10/3...
As we start the school year, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at four picture books from the 1970s and 80s showing queer families and children in school and daycare settings. Such books have been around longer than you might think. #QueerKidLit #BookSky mombian.com/2025/09/08/4...
Pride isn't the only holiday that LGBTQ families and individuals celebrate! These two brand-new picture books and a chapter book show queer families and people finding joy with their communities and traditions during a variety of holidays. #QueerKidLit #BookSky Reviews: mombian.com/2025/09/02/3...
