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csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="90" width="100%" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-orig allow-popups" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allowfullscreen="" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Recently, my five-year-old son brought home a picture book om our lol library lled “Uncle Bobby’s Weddg,” and, when he asked me to read at bedtime that eveng, I felt a profound rignatn. The book’s ver featur two sg grooms skny-f sus standg beneath an arbor, and a ty flower girl, about my son’s age, wearg a bright yellow drs. The girl is Chloe, and one of the men, Bobby, is her favore uncle: “He took her rowg on the river. He tght her the nam of the stars.” Jt a few pag , Bobby brgs his boyiend to a fay piic, and there, to Chloe’s nsternatn, the uple announce their engagement. The book that I assumed this one to be unfurled my head: Chloe would haltgly accept the notn that a weddg isn’t jt for a man and a woman; she would learn that ’s O.K. to be gay.</p><p class="paywall">But “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Uncle Bobby’s Weddg</a>,” happily, is not that book at all. The story’s central nflict, the ccial set of assumptns that Chloe mt shake off, is rooted not any child-sized homophobia but her worri that her uncle, once he’s married and perhaps startg a fay of his own, will no longer fly k wh her or take her to the ballet. “Uncle Bobby’s Weddg” offers no ht that Bobby’s marriage self is a parture om any norm. Instead, ’s a book where queer fai jt <em>are</em>, a world where no one mt be persuad of . My kids live a versn of that world—hardly a post-genr utopia, but many of their peers have two moms or two dads, and ’s not unual for boys to wear nail polish or tut to prchool. Not long after my son brought “Uncle Bobby’s Weddg” home, his public elementary school picked as the Book of the Month for June, to ci wh Pri.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">In an creasg number of stat, that choice uld ntravene the law. In March, Florida’s ernor, Ron DeSantis, signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, popularly known as the “<a href=">Don’t Say Gay</a>” law, which clar that “classroom stctn . . . on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age-appropriate”; also prohibs “classroom discsn” of such topics. In April, Governor Kay Ivey, of Alabama, signed a bill wh siar language, and multiple stat have <a href=">parable legislatn</a> pendg. In Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott has attempted to crimalize genr-affirmg pediatric re and asked the state’s tn agency to vtigate “the availabily of pornography” public schools, the state reprentative Matt Krse has piled a wily circulated <a href=">master list</a> of some eight hundred and fifty books that potentially vlate <a href=">HB 3979</a>, which bars the teachg of material that uld e a stunt to feel “psychologil distrs on acunt of the dividual’s race or sex.” Other groups, such as the right-wg Moms for Liberty, have dissemated h lists of their own.</p><p class="paywall">Krse’s list nam books that have been equently targeted for bans owg to dmmed-up panics over cril race theory (such as Ibram X. Kendi’s “<a href=">How to Be an Antiracist</a>”) and queer-centered books for olr rears, cludg two memoirs that Abbott has nmned as “clearly pornographic” (Carmen Maria Machado’s “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">In the Dream Hoe</a>” and Maia Kobabe’s “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Genr Queer</a>”). But also clus a number of superb picture books wh L.G.B.T. them, such as “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">And Tango Mak Three</a>,” about two male pengus who have a baby, and “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Julián at the Weddg</a>,” about a boy who lov to drs up. The books, like “Uncle Bobby’s Weddg,” are strikg for their poted lack of “psychologil distrs.” They are part of a genre that barely existed a generatn ago, and they prent a surprisg visn of what a children’s book should be—one that many lawmakers are tryg to legislate out of existence.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">In the neteen-seventi, a ty imprt lled Lollipop Power lnched Chapel Hill, North Carola, scribg self as “a femist llective that wr, illtrat, and publish books to unteract sex-stereotyped behavr and role mols prented by society to young children.” Its expensive books, which were stapled like z, clud “Jse’s Dream Skirt,” a pneerg portrayal of a genr-nonnformg prchooler; “When Megan Went Away,” which scholars believe to be the first Amerin children’s book to portray lbian parents (albe on who have jt spl up); and “Lots of Mommi,” which a ltle girl is raised by her mother and three other women. But Lollipop Power’s output never crossed to the mastream.</p><p class="paywall">Gay-themed picture books did not receive wispread attentn until the turn of the neti, when the L.G.B.T.-focsed Alyson Publitns published “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Heather Has Two Mommi</a>” and “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Daddy’s Roommate</a>.” The Alyson books received enormo, often hysteril media attentn—on a “Larry Kg Live” segment, 1992, a ncerned gut nounced “Daddy’s Roommate” for s “explic pictur of two men huggg each other.” Both books ma repeat appearanc on the Amerin Library Associatn’s annual Top 10 Most Challenged Books list, which talli mands to remove books om public- and school-library shelv natnwi. The were stiff, earnt books, lackg for drama or w; “Heather” was improbably nse wh text for a book tend for very young rears, and clud a tailed explaer of artificial sematn. Still, “ was a book that was always stocked gay bookstor and women’s bookstor,” K. T. Horng, who recently retired as the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the School of Edutn at the Universy of Wisns-Madison, told me. “A lot of lbians bought as gifts for iends who were havg children, or even jt bought for themselv, bee was the only time they had ever seen themselv reflected a children’s book.”</p><p class="paywall">At the time, Horng was workg at a public library Madison. “We did also have lbian moms and gay dads who were not fans of the Alyson books,” she said. “They felt that they were jt too didactic. So we me up wh a list of books that didn’t really have gay fai, but they did have queer subtexts.” The clud the “<a href=">Frog and Toad</a>” books, wrten and illtrated by Arnold Lobel, and “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Three Days on a River a Red Canoe</a>,” wrten and illtrated by Vera B. Williams. “That was the hands-down favore of lbian fai at our library, bee they felt reflected what their fay life was actually like,” Horng said of “Red Canoe.” “They were not stg down wh their children and givg them long explanatns of artificial sematn. The book had a great story, adventure, engagg illtratns, and kids beg kids.” It also had a eewheelg approach to format: the lored-pencil drawgs and text mgled wh recip, diagrams, and stctns for tyg knots or pchg a tent.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Most of the early queer kid l—or, rather, the queer kid l that announced self as such—was plaly didactic. Then aga, “to a certa extent, all children’s lerature is didactic,” Thomas Crisp, an associate profsor of leracy and children’s lerature at Geia State Universy, said. But “L.G.B.T.Q. books that are overtly didactic are generally ncerned wh tg people <em>about</em> L.G.B.T.Q.-intified people rather than creatg texts <em>for</em> those who have iends, fay members, loved on, or who themselv intify as L.G.B.T.Q.” Meanwhile, queer-d stori such as “Frog and Toad” or “Red Canoe” were nceivably for and about most anyone.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">The next major brouhaha about L.G.B.T. children’s books didn’t kick off until 2005, wh the publitn of “And Tango Mak Three,” a sweet tale about a pair of pengu dads that topped the Most Challenged list 2006, 2007, and 2008, dipped to No. 2 2009, rebound to No. 1 2010, and reached the top ten four more tim the to e. (It also ma the “ThreatDown” segment of “The Colbert Report.”) “And Tango Mak Three” ’s thors, the hbands Jt Richardson and Peter Parnell, llaborated wh the illtrator Henry Cole, and got the ia for the book when they read <a href=">a story the <em>Tim</em></a> about Roy and Silo, an separable pair of male chstrap pengus at the Central Park Zoo. The pengus went so far as to attempt to brood a rock before a zookeeper gave them a real egg to re for, which soon hatched Tango. “Out me their very own baby!” Richardson and Parnell wre. “She had fuzzy whe feathers and a funny black beak.” (A few years after their book was published, Richardson and Parnell had a dghter of their own.)</p><p class="paywall">Richardson, who is a psychiatrist and the -thor of “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Everythg You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Aaid They’d Ask)</a>,” told me that “Tango” was rooted partly talks he would give to private-school parents about how to approach discsg sex and sexualy wh their children. “The impet behd the book was to put somethg the hands of parents that they would feel fortable g,” he said. “Pengus are birds who are cute and cuddly, who do not have visible genalia, who kd of snuggle and that’s about all. You n’t tell a male pengu apart om a female pengu. If we had published a book that had two lns on the ver wh big man, 2005, wouldn’t have reached as broad an dience.”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall"></p><p class="paywall">“And Tango Mak Three” is not the only picture book that androgyny the animal world service of a queer theme. The origal versn of “Uncle Bobby’s Weddg,” wrten and illtrated by Sarah Brannen, was populated by guea pigs, who are also rather epicene. “I wanted the story to be universal, and I thought, If I make wh cute animals, anyone n intify or not,” Brannen told me. The newer edn, published 2020—the versn my son brought home—is rest wh human begs, thanks to ftive illtratns by Lucia Soto. “Nowadays, I hear om people sometim who feel that illtratg the book wh animals ma somehow safer—that backed away a b om the realy of gay human begs,” Brannen said. “That wasn’t my tentn, but thgs change.”</p><p class="paywall">For a progrsive-md rear, an tentnally mure approach to a queer children’s story may sn as squeamishns; a nservative parent, meanwhile, may see as a trick. “There were requts that a sticker should be put on the ver of ‘Tango,’ to announce that was a gay book,” Richardson said. Cocintally, “Tango” appeared the same year as the blockbter documentary “March of the Pengus,” which many nservativ <a href=">embraced</a> as an anthropomorphized showse of tradnal fay valu. Amid right-wg pengu mania, Roy and Silo looked like terlopers, disguised as themselv.</p><p class="paywall">Adults fear children’s books for their abily to perate a velopg subnsc and tell a child who she is; follows that the same books have a knack for gettg adults to tell on themselv. The assumptn that “a gay book” is necsarily a sexualized book, and therefore appropriate for children, is baked to the language of “Don’t Say Gay”: the law prohibs discsn of “sexual orientatn or genr inty,” full stop, but ’s tacly unrstood that only certa orientatns and inti qualify for the ban. The same normative md-set fed the attacks on “And Tango Mak Three.” “It was cricized the nservative prs as beg sexually explic,” Richardson said. “That’s when you know we’re alg wh projectn—adults who are projectg their fantasi onto this book. When you get an adult of a certa generatn and you say ‘homosexualy’ to them, their associatn is men havg sex wh men. That’s simply where their md go. What we’ve tried to expla is: your four-year-old do <em>not</em> have that associatn, and by the way, that associatn isn’t the book; ’s your imagatn.”</p><p class="paywall">Put another way, straight adults do not stantly thk of straight sex when they see straight characters. When my kids watch “<a href=">Bluey</a>,” I don’t keep one fger on the remote jt se Mum and Dad sudnly start gog at atop their kchen unter. Introduce a gay character to your children’s entertament, though, and you bee a “groomer”: the buzzword that’s now omniprent right-wg media, equatg any queer-iendly curricula or event wh sexual predatn. When DeSantis signed Florida’s bill to law, he said that s opponents “support sexualizg kids krgarten.” He also held up an oversized reproductn of a page om the picture book “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Call Me Max</a>,” about a trans kid, much as a prosecutor would hold up a crime-scene photograph a urtroom. Labelled “<em class="small">FOUND IN FLORIDA</em>,” the offendg page picted ltle Max loungg pensively a verdant patch of grass, a small dog by his si.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">One of the strengths of “Uncle Bobby’s Weddg” is how reprents a small child’s actual assumptns, as opposed to those of Governor Ron DeSantis. In the book, which squeaked at No. 99 on the A.L.A.’s list of the most-challenged books of the twenty-tens, there is no ditn that Chloe is pable of sortg relatnships as “gay” or “straight.” In fact, she ets about the weddg precisely bee she assum that Bobby’s new hband will neatly substute for her—that their rpective relatnships wh Bobby n be placed the same tegory. That is to say, she is as cluels, solipsistic, and glorly ee of adult imprtg as any five-year-old you’ll meet at the library.</p><p class="paywall">“I had to thk hard about how to tell this story the way a child would see ,” Brannen told me. “I wrote versns which Chloe was nfed bee Bobby was marryg a man, and jt felt wrong. It didn’t feel te. When I’ve spoken to groups of young children—krgarten, first gra—you n sometim see that some of them might not have ever thought about that before, that a man n marry a man. And they go, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that.’ And then the next qutn is ‘How old are you?’ or ‘Have you ever been a flower girl?’ And the younger children, the prchoolers, they <em>really</em> take for granted.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Jsi Love is the wrer and illtrator of “Julián at the Weddg” and s precsor, the geo and dreamlike “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Julián Is a Mermaid</a>,” which the tle character seiz his chance, when his grandmother is the tub, to craft a stume for himself, g her curtas as a gown and her hoeplant as a headdrs. When Love reads the book aloud to children, she told me, she typilly ps jt as Julián’s grandmother is g out of the bathroom, her hair wrapped a towel. “I’ll ask the kids, ‘Do you thk he’s gog to be trouble?’ The really ltle on will say, ‘Yeah, bee he ma a ms,’ or ‘Yeah, bee he hurt her plant.’ ” (Spoiler: Julián’s not trouble, and his <em>abuela</em> rts him his curtas-and-hoeplant fery to the annual Mermaid Para, Coney Island.)</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR daRVRt persistent-asi" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="0xm1s"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="8ia8t2"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">“It’s not even on the kids’ radar that the way he chose to drs up might be a problem,” Love said. “I wanted the story to functn absolutely the absence of that ia.” Love’s illtratns are vibrant and exquisely tailed, but they also leave opengs for the imagative rear to fill, or not: whether Julián liv wh his <em>abuela</em> or is jt visg her; whether the spectacularly stumed para-goers whom Julián enunters on the subway are cis women, drag queens, or actual mermaids.</p><p class="paywall">Of urse, many olr children have already grasped that, much of the untry, queer people and queer fai are seen as a problem. They may know, for example, that, Idaho, where the state reprentative Heather Stt told an dience that the L.G.B.T. muny and s supporters are wagg a “war of perversn agast our children,” thirty-one alleged members of the whe-supremacist group Patrt Front were arrted near a Pri event, on June 11th, and charged wh nspiracy to rt. (They were released on bond and are slated for future urt appearanc.) Olr kids may know that, on the same day, members of the right-wg hate group the Proud Boys stormed a Drag Queen Story Hour event at a library outsi San Francis, flashg whe-power signs; one wore a T-shirt that read “Kill Your Lol Pedophile.” They may know that school-based threats and acts of vlence agast queer people appear to be on the rise.</p><p class="paywall">For those kids, a book like “Julián Is a Mermaid” n shape-shift to a different kd of tool. Erika Long, a school librarian Tennsee, told me about how she ed picture books such as “Julián” and the Pri primer “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">This Day June</a>” to lnch middle-school uns on social jtice. “The were sixth grars lerally stg on the floor crisscross applce, readg to each other,” Long relled, wh great light. The kids were enuraged to e Julián’s style of self-exprsn and his grandmother’s support of him as prompts to discs different mos of activism. “The middle-school years are when kids are beg really knowledgeable about who they are,” Long said. “The library is a place where they feel fortable sharg about thgs that are related to inty or sexualy.”</p><p class="paywall">That sense of fort is what Moms for Liberty and others are out to disturb. Durg the panmic, school closur put nservative parents closer proximy to books and curricula that they might fd offensive; meanwhile, many districts poured rourc to their e-book talogu, makg easier to take screenshots of objectnable material and share them onle. “Prr to this past school year, was not unual for a parent to reach out to to discs a book,” Audrey Wilson-Youngblood, a school librarian Texas, told me. “It was normal and healthy. But then we saw a sudn spike people bypassg the library and gog straight to social media or straight to the school board and supertennt, bee they saw a book on a list. The were anized, natnal groups that would hunt for specific books until they found them.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">The non of queer-themed stori for young rears is still relatively small. That means the stak are higher for any given book terms of who and what choos to reprent, and how those choic are terpreted by different dienc. While I was rearchg this piece, I brought home many picture books wrten by thors on Reprentative Krse’s list, and my kids were nfed by the handful that portrayed the bullyg of genr-nonnformg boys. My dghter, who is seven, was pecially baffled by Daniel Haack and Stevie Lewis’s “Prce & Knight: Tale of the Shadow Kg,” which the villa’s emotnal dysregulatn is traced back to his feelgs of shame about his long hair and feme cloth. As soon as he’s offered some sympathy, his taste for havoc disappears. “He thks people don’t like him bee of his <em>hair</em>?” my dghter asked disdafully. I felt queasy: wh the aid of some well-reviewed children’s books, I had seed her bra that queer kids are marked for stigma before the lik of Matt Krse uld do for me.</p><p class="paywall">Kyle Loff is the thor, wh the illtrator Luciano Lozano, of “Call Me Max,” the picture book held up by DeSantis as symbolic of a groomg crisis, as well as “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">When Aidan Beme a Brother</a>,” illtrated by Kaylani Juana, about a young trans boy anxly awag the birth of his new siblg. Before he began wrg full time, 2020, Loff worked as an elementary-school librarian and bookseller. He relled an enunter wh a ctomer at the Barn & Noble ep-blue Park Slope, Brooklyn. “A mom me lookg for a book about a boy who wore drs and wearg drs wasn’t a problem,” Loff said. “Her son didn’t know yet that people were gog to be mean to him, and his mom didn’t want him to fd out until he had to. I was, like, ‘Ooh, I don’t know— the stori where this exists, ’s always a problem to be solved.’ ” Loff went on, “It almost seems as if books, tryg to do the right thg, n reify the ias.”</p><p class="paywall">In part, this is bee thors themselv are performg their own kds of projectn. “Somethg I have noticed about a lot of picture books wh L.G.B.T.Q. them for children,” Horng said, “is that oftentim ’s another child who brgs up genr or sexualy as somethg odd. In my work wh children, that has not been my experience— is ually an adult who brgs up as a potential problem. Yet thors put that on a child, and then, of urse, ’s the role of the wise adults to e to expla to the kids, ‘No, there are different kds of fai.’ ”</p><p class="paywall">This is the domant dynamic of books about genr-nonnformg children, all the way back to “Jse’s Dream Skirt”: other kids are the threat and the adults are the refuge. But there is no bullyg peer a book like “Julián Is a Mermaid,” by nsc sign. “I remember havg a very clear sense as a child about whether a book was beg given to me to teach me a lson and when a book was jt for pleasure,” Love said. “I wanted this story to lead wh pleasure. I wanted the first prciple to be bety and light. It’s important to have stori that are a portal to the world as we wish to be. The unter-argument is: don’t we owe to people who have been trmatized by bullyg, or by the celler shape of the world, to reflect that? But I tend to thk that that’s the world plenty already.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">When I spoke wh Richardson, he ced two books of his youth that exemplified the dichotomy between pure pleasure and a more didactic approach: “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Story of Ferdand</a>,” wrten by Munro Leaf and illtrated by Robert Lawson, and “Oliver Button Is a Sissy,” wrten and illtrated by Tomie Paola. Ferdand is a bull who famoly ref to participate the bullfights, preferrg “to s jt quietly and smell the flowers”; Oliver is a boy who’s averse to sports and partial to tap dancg and drsg up. Other boys tease him, but Oliver rather miraculoly silenc them wh a strong showg at the school talent show. The procs by which he earns rpect feels ntgent upon his gifts.</p><p class="paywall">“I was so unfortable as a kid about ‘Oliver Button Is a Sissy,’ ” Richardson said. “I didn’t <em>want</em> a book where kids were teasg another child. It ma me feel bad. I was embarrassed that had happened to me.” What’s more, he said, there was nothg reassurg about the book’s happy endg. “I remember thkg, Well, but I n’t tap dance. How do this help me?”</p><p class="paywall">A book whose them are more malleable and imprsnistic, Richardson suggts, may at tim provi better reprentatn than leral reprentatn do. “ ‘The Story of Ferdand’ was the sgle most important piece of lerature of my whole childhood. I never read ‘Ferdand’ and thought, ‘Well, but I don’t have horns,’ or ‘I wouldn’t s on a bee,’ or ‘My mom isn’t a w.’ ” The world of animals and metaphor, he said, “giv kids more imagative space.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">If overtly L.G.B.T. books ntue to be banished om library shelv, then may be left to olr works like “Ferdand” and “Frog and Toad” to smuggle queer-iendly them. And, sce book-banng enthiasts tend not to read the books they ban very closely, the “jt-are” brand of queer children’s story may still have a chance to slip past the censors as well. A recent entry this tegory is <a href=">Emma Hunsger</a> and Tillie Waln’s “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">My Parents Won’t Stop Talkg!</a>”, which wi-eyed Molly is exced to be gog to the park, but her moms jt keep yammerg to their across-the-street hippie neighbors, the dread Crenzas. The book draws on Molly’s mountg dignatn wh an exclamatory energy that evok Jul Feiffer’s classic “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I Lost My Bear</a>.”</p><p class="paywall">Like most bari, though, the l between didactic stori and jt-are stori—and between Oliver Button stori and Ferdand stori—n blur and break down. “There are books that are ‘Once upon a time there was a character who was different, and everyone was mean to them,’ and then at the end of the story you learned why you should be nice to people,” Loff said. “I <em>hate</em> those books, for a lot of reasons. There’s another tegory where characters quote-unquote ‘jt happen to be’ an inty—there are two dads, but ’s not about that. I would pos that there’s a third type of book, one that’s wholly about a character’s inty, but whout that inty beg a source of nflict.”</p><p class="paywall">“When Aidan Beme a Brother” centers Aidan’s transns and the pa he experienced durg his early childhood, when his parents gave him cloth and a bedroom suable for the girl he was not. But the book’s precise tensn riv om Aidan’s anxiety that the fay won’t provi a welg home for the new baby. He’s worried, simply put, about beg a good big brother. When Loff got the ia for “Aidan,” he said, “It was this flash of a kid sayg, ‘This is what my room looked like when I was born—and <em>this</em> is what my room looks like <em>now</em>!’ It’s a kid tellg you how he changed the world around him stead of merely forcg people to accept him to their preëxistg world view.” Aidan, like Julián the mermaid, exerts creative power and agency, buildg his own portal to the world as he wish to be.</p><p class="paywall">My dghter read “When Aidan Beme a Brother” to me the other night. It wasn’t new to her—she’d read at school. When I asked her what she thought of the book, her rponse had everythg and nothg to do wh Aidan’s inty: she focsed entirely, and a b envly, on how he had revamped that gigantic, extremely un-Brooklyn-apartment room. 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