The Stars and the Cookie Jar

Good morning! I seek opinions. And on the internet, EVERYONE has one of those, right? 

I am trying to write a children's book -- specifically one for LGBT families. If you are a part of such a family, trying hard to create such a family, or just saunter vaguely into the L, G, B, T, or even Q category and have some thoughts on the subject, put them here. I have secured a kick-ass, expressive illustrator for my work.


WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN A READ-ALONG BOOK FOR LGBT PARENTS TO SHARE WITH THEIR KIDS?

Please choose, or suggest otherwise in comments:

-- a regular little book with a conventional story, showing an LGBT instead of a heteronormative family doing everyday things in the course of the story

-- a "story of you" kind of book with two moms or two dads instead of all that momsie and dadsie claptrap

-- a "when you were born" book with gentle references to surrogacy or donor insemination as a means to parenting, and two moms/two dads to follow along with -- and less of all that "Daddy brought Mommy some ice chips in the seventeenth hour of back labor, because there was nothing else a Daddy was supposed to do!" stuff

-- an ungendered version of any of the above, with gender-signal-free illustrations of people doing things, and names for parents that do not assign a gender to the non-gestational parent

-- a fairy tale in which the plucky protagonist leaves a home with two mommies/two daddies/two parents to find adventure

THANK YOU to everyone who shared their input, and please continue weighing in if you like! I will read every comment! 

So far, I am going to write the text for three books, and submit all three to my illustrator (who deserves serious pimping, but I don't know how she feels about that). They are:

Molly and the Magic Pot -- a fairy tale with two moms or two dads , illustrator-dependent (the parents aren't the point)

An Alphabet for the Seasons -- depicting letters, seasons, familiar objects, and parents and children of all colors (four sets of parents -- gay men, lesbians, ungendered, and multi-co-parenting) 

The Making of You, lesbian queerspawn creation with a donor insem slant -- I want to do interviews with more parents, so this one will come last.


Thank you again for all your help!