pickMore kids‘ books with trans characters, please! 🏳️⚧️ This is a gentle book about a kid who had a brother but now has a sister. It rhymes, it‘s light, it mostly talks about how his sister is all the same things, just had a different first name. Real nice, real age appropriate, just a cute one.
pick⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐5 ⭐This book is amazing. The rhymes are a little harsh at times, but the message is entirely what this book is about. We start with a child going to school and all of her classmates are asking what happened to her brother Bill? Where did Bill go? The classmates have some wild Bill scenarios that include spaceships, baseball, etc. Going into this book blind, I was very happy to find out it wasn‘t something sad.
so-soJuno Dawson‘s lgbtq+ picture book is a good way of introducing young readers to children with trans identities with the narrator‘s pragmatism contrasting with the increasingly hysterical worries of her classmates. However, while Laura Hughes‘s illustrations are great - bright, colourful, energetic and packed with character - I found Dawson‘s rhymes to be strained at times and the need to chill refrain sounds increasingly precocious.
You Need to Chill | 
