Description:
Little Lenny knows he's a goat-the issue is, no one else in the barn seems to think so. Will he ever find the bravery to come out to his friends and make his wool coat match the bleating in his heart? Hop along with Lenny in rhymed, metered verse as he grabs life by the horns and makes his own happy ending.
Brief description: Remi Recchia, PhD, is a trans poet and essayist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a book editor and also works as a technical editor. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Remi's work has appeared in World Literature Today, Best New Poets 2021, and Juked, among others. Books and chapbooks include Quicksand/Stargazing (Cooper Dillon Books, 2021); Sober (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022); From Gold, Ghosts: Alchemy Erasures (Gasher Press, 2023); and Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us (Sundress Publications, forthcoming). Remi has been a Tin House Scholar and Thomas Lux Scholar. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University.
Review Quotes:
"Little Lenny Gets His Horns is a picture book story about a seemingly female sheep who knows that he is really a goat. Remi Recchia uses rhymed poetry to tell an important tale. This book will help a child to understand that some people are not comfortable with their assigned gender, need to tell others about this real identity, and may change their bodies to fulfill their lives. Recchia tells the story with true empathy for individuals who need to defy traditional expectations in order to be authentic. Lenny the transgender goat finds that his family and his society accept and respect him. The happy ending of Little Lenny Gets His Horns will reassure transgender individuals that their lives can be joyful, too."
-Janet Ruth Heller, PhD, author of How the Moon Regained Her Shape