The Great LGBT Children's Book Question [The Stars and the Cookie Jar]

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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!

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I want copies already.

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These sound fantastic. I'm not sure how much my interest counts though as a hetero married person with no children? I would happily give these sorts of books to my nieces though.

I'm very curious what you're take will be on the novel when you get a chance to look at it (does that sound naggy? Damn. I don't mean it to. YOUR writing and everything else should come first.) Because there are two moms with a daughter. I explained it all in the last draft and I took a lot of the back story out in this one. I think I have to put some of it back in because it is too hazy now. *sigh*

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Oh, lovely. I'm glad you will be writing books, and I'm sure they will be fantastic.

A question, from curiosity/interest: why not five sets of parents in the alphabet book, with a hetero couple? If the idea is "There are all sorts of families, and they are all good ones"? (My thoughts on this expand into lots of realms very quickly - I can expound if wanted, but am just as happy not to. Was just wondering your thoughts/reasoning, I guess?)

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Twenty-six pages and a beginning and end page divides easier by 4. :)

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I can't wait to see them!

However, there's already a GLBT family alphabet book - we have a copy that you can take a look at - which makes me think you should try something different for that one. What we really need is just plain old STORIES where the families happen to have a variety of configurations. The fairy tale should fit the bill marvellously. Uncle Bobby's Wedding is the best example of this (again, we have a copy you can review if desired).

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We also have a GLBT family alphabet book - might be the same one, but you are also welcome to take a look at it. It is VERY GAY, like there are femmey femme dads and butchy moms and such. Elsie loves it.

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