
Ages 3–8
Introducing TeddyWhat matters is that you are my friend.' A sweet and gentle story about being true to yourself and being a good friend, Introducing Teddy can also help children understand gender identity.

Marcus Ewert
Ages 3–8
Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows. . . . Unfortunately, when Bailey's awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary. "You're a BOY!" Mother and Father tell Bailey. "You shouldn't be thinking about dresses at all." Then Bailey meets Laurel, an older girl who is touched and inspired by Bailey's imagination and courage. In friendship, the two of them begin making dresses together. And Bailey's dreams come true!
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We keep this on the shelf for LGBTQ+ kids and families — a story kids can feel, not just a lesson adults want to teach.
Ages 3–8. Especially helpful for affirming LGBTQ+ identity and gender expression.
Ask: How did someone in this story show who they are — and who cheered them on?
Bedtime tip: after the last page, ask one question and wait — silence is where the story sticks.
Two titles that deepen the same conversation.

Ages 3–8
Introducing TeddyWhat matters is that you are my friend.' A sweet and gentle story about being true to yourself and being a good friend, Introducing Teddy can also help children understand gender identity.

Ages 3–8
Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? by Sarah Savage — a thoughtfully chosen inclusive book for young readers.

Ages 13+
FlamerIn her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes.

Ages 3–8
Jacob's new dressJacob's new dress by Sarah and Ian Hoffman — a thoughtfully chosen inclusive book for young readers.

Ages 3–8
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine dressMorris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. But most of all, Morris loves wearing the tangerine dress in his classroom’s dress-up center. The children in Morris’s class don’t understand. Dresses, they say, are for girls. And Morris certainly isn’t welcome in the spaceship some of his classmates are building. Astronauts, they say, don’t wear dresses. One day when Morris feels all alone and sick from their taunts, his mother lets him stay home from school. Morris dreams of a fantastic space adventure with his cat, Moo. Inspired by his dream, Morris paints the incredible scene he saw and brings it with him to school. He builds his own spaceship, hangs his painting on the front of it and takes two of his classmates on an outer space adventure. With warm, dreamy illustrations, Isabelle Malenfant perfectly captures Morris’s vulnerability and the vibrancy of his imagination.

Ages 3–8
My Princess BoyHe’s a Princess Boy. Inspired by the author’s son, and by her own initial struggles to understand, this heartwarming book is a call for tolerance and an end to bullying and judgments.

Ages 3–8
My Shadow Is PurpleA heartwarming and inspiring book about being true to yourself, by best-selling children's book creator Scott Stuart. This story considers gender beyond binary in a vibrant spectrum of colour"--Provided by publisher.

Ages 3–8
One of a kind like meIt's almost closing time will Danny find the costume of his dreams in time? One of A Kind, Like Me / Unico como yo is a sweet story about unconditional love and the beauty of individuality.