Description: An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children's picture books
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books is a timely, engaging, and arguably groundbreaking volume. This book will be of interest to scholars of children's literature and childhood studies but also a wider public invested in queer children's literature, including teachers, librarians, parents, and other advocates.--Kenneth B. Kidd, coeditor of Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be