r/Parenting • u/tellmetheworld • Aug 15 '22
Advice Suggestions for kids books that feature gay parents but Aren’t ABOUT having gay parents?
My partner and I are the proud same-sex parents of a three-month-old, And we’re continuing to build our book collection. It’s really important for us for our LO to see a variety of parental situations. Straight, and same-sex. So far, the only books we found that featured gay parents, happened to be about gay parenting- and the subject of the book happens to be about having two moms, rather than a cute little story about bedtime or something and the parents just happen to be gay. I’m really looking for suggestions of the latter. I just want our baby to see examples of gay parents out in the world but not have the focus always be on that. Any suggestions? One great example is “babies everywhere”. It’s just a fun easy going book about babies and it features all kinds of parents!
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Aug 15 '22
Love Makes a Family is a really nice board book with all sorts of family combinations! Our kids love it.
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u/sparrowsgirl Aug 15 '22
Came here to recommend this- my 16 month old is at the point where he likes pointing to things in the book and there's so much going on in those pages, so he's learning tons of new words.
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u/IndigoExMo Aug 15 '22
Same and same! My 18mo gets HYPE for each page with a cat or dog. And the one with the kid’s messy room and the parent finding their lost shoe is great because there’s just so much going on! 10/10, wonderful book that keeps on giving with each reread.
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u/septbabygirl Aug 15 '22
Yes! It’s a cute book. The illustrations are really beautiful. The book “Families Can” is similar and features two dads on the cover with their child.
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u/crazy-bisquit Aug 15 '22
I think I had this book when my son was little. Is it about all families of all types? There were families with two dads, two moms, a mixed race family, a family with a disabled parent, a multi generational family, etc etc. it was lovely.
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u/ledh38iwd Aug 15 '22
This is my babes favorite book! We read it every night and she loves all the details in the pictures. She got a lot of new words from reading that book so much
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u/ShowMeYourPPE Aug 15 '22
Captain Underpants. Spoiler: Harold grows up and has a husband and kids. You don’t really find out until the end though.
Edit: I guess not really age appropriate for a 3 month old. But for the future maybe.
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u/silentlycriticizing Aug 15 '22
Captain Underpants is currently my 9yo's favorite series. Such spot on humor for the age range.
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u/ShowMeYourPPE Aug 15 '22
Yea my 7 year old loves the series, it has a big age range. Gotta love the potty humor.
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Aug 15 '22
I found “The Little Red Stroller” by Joshua Furst on one of our library adventures. LOVE it. Features all different types of families and has a lovely sense of community.
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u/Atherial Aug 15 '22
Yes, I was about to recommend this one. It's all about giving away the stroller when each family is done with it.
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Aug 15 '22
Pete the cat has a family with a same sex couple
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u/atomicskier76 Aug 15 '22
Was going to say this, Sally has two dads and it just is, no focus. Pete the cat christmas episode is one of our favorites
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u/laddergoatgoblue Aug 15 '22
Is it just me or is Pete the Cat stoned out of his mind 100% of the time? All he does is say groovy and eat food that makes no sense. Not to mention his eyes are always glazed over...
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u/cupcakesandxenoliths Aug 15 '22
Whenever we talk about different families, my kiddo reminds me of Sally’s two dads!
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u/SuspiciousPatate Aug 15 '22
'Princess Puffybottom...and Darryl' by Susin Nielsen is a story of a cat getting used to having a new puppy in the house but the owners appear to be a same sex couple preparing for a baby, which happens subtly in the background and is not featured in the cat storyline.
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u/_jbean_ Aug 15 '22
Everywhere Babies is super sweet and great for an infant/toddler! It shows (very cute) babies with all different kinds of caregivers, including one baby with two dads.
Also, some conservative advocacy group in Florida wants to ban it from schools, so it’s got that going for it!
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u/sporkoroon Aug 15 '22
Thought of this too- such a sweet book and my kid loved it when he was small.
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u/ADK87 Aug 15 '22
We've been reading this with our 13 month old these past couple weeks at bedtime and he genuinely seems to enjoy this one!
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u/Prudent-Growth30 Aug 15 '22
Awe, I just love this one. Forever happy memories from reading it to my kids.
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u/notthathamilton Aug 15 '22
Yes! I came here to recommend Everywhere Babies. It’s very sweet and has lovely illustrations of all kinds of families.
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u/AznHeidrun Aug 15 '22
Harriet gets carried away. It is a cute book about a little girl who likes to get dressed up in costumes. Shenanigans happen and she tries to get back home to her dads.
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Aug 15 '22
This! I would also suggest the bulk of Jessie Sima's work. We have them for our kiddos ( Love Z, Hardly Haunted, Not Quite Narwhal, Perfectly Pegasus & Harriet Gets Carried Away)
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u/SorbetLoud4637 Aug 15 '22
OP THANK YOU for posting this! Me and my wife have a 2 months old and are looking for books too! I’m saving this thread for later. 🌈💜
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u/modix Aug 15 '22 edited Aug 15 '22
Esther the Wonder Pig was a good book with gay dads. Handles loving something "weird" (the giant pig) and treats the gay parents as normal. There without being preachy and the only topic of the story.
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u/fortnight14 Aug 15 '22
This was my recommendation too! I love this book. Esther having 2 dads is mentioned but I big deal. It just is.
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u/butterflyscarfbaby Aug 15 '22
Our local library has a ton of diversity built in to the kids section. For example, a book about mommy shows different mommies, one is a gay couple. But yeah it’s not the focus of the story, it’s just about mommy. The book was mommy by Leslie patricelli. It only briefly mentions the same sex couple, tho. It might be worth it to just check out the kids section. I also like that the picture books show all types of people, people of various ages, abilities, races, etc. because we live in a 99% white community I’m glad that he has some exposure to different faces.
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u/tellmetheworld Aug 15 '22
Briefly mentioning a same sex couple is perfect. I just want him to grow up knowing it’s as normal as a casual mention. Thank you!!
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u/HebbieWebbie Aug 15 '22
Also Daddy by Leslie Patricelli is similar - at the end lots of different daddies are shown, and there are two holding the hands of a little girl that we can assume are her dads, but it's not a big deal - they're just there.
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u/Jordak_keebs Aug 15 '22
In the new Clifford the big red dog books (post 2019), Emily Elizabeth's friend Samantha has two moms.
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u/nothingbut_trouble Aug 16 '22
Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder is a book all about different people. It has a great rhythm and every page features diversity differences including size, race and everything from body hair to surgical scars. On one page it talks about bodies growing & changing- one side features a family and the other side shows them several years later. One of the family members appears to transition. It’s subtle, but super cool. My daughter (3.5) loves this book and we read it often.
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u/shroomyz Aug 15 '22
Hmm... I don't have the book with me now but we recently borrowed "all are welcome" and I'm pretty sure it featured a family with same sex parents
It wasn't a big feature, just one of many families that appeared in the book.
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Aug 15 '22
“We’re part of a community
Our strength is our diversity
A shelter from adversity
All are welcome here!”
I LOVE that book.
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u/Funocity Aug 15 '22
I came here to recommend that book. It's great. Our daughter is 3, we talk about how cool the differences are. She recently pointed out the Chinese dragons, so... off to find more info on them, because as a middle class white girl from New England... I really don't know much. We'll learn together. That books is great!!!
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u/Sultan_VileBetrayer Aug 15 '22
We actually just came across one at the library that I think fits the bill: “My parents won’t stop talking” by Emma Hunsinger and Tillie Walden. About a child who wants to go to the park but her parents are held up by the chatty next door neighbors.
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u/FionaTheCat3507 Aug 15 '22
Not a book, but I want to recommend a show called The Bravest Knight. A knight and a prince get married and then the show is about their daughter’s adventures.
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Aug 15 '22
Similarly I was going to recommend the Netflix version of She-ra (for when the kiddo is a youth). Lots of representation without it being a topic of conversation.
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Aug 15 '22
A few we've read recently that (I thought) seemlessly incorporated different family styles including same sex parents at least by pictures:
Aaron Slater Illustrator br Andrea Beaty, The Bench by Meghan the Duchess of Sussex, Dumpling Day by Meera Sriram
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u/Bobatt Aug 15 '22
Aaron Slater Illustrator
Is a great book. Actually, all of The Questioneers books are great. I particularly like Aaron Slater and Sofia Valdez though.
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Aug 15 '22
I cried the first two times we read Aaron Slater! It's so sweet and a beautiful way to approach the difficulty a kid with dyslexia faces.
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u/Bobatt Aug 15 '22
I can barely make it through it even after reading it for a while. I'm a sucker for stories about people overcoming struggles.
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u/weirdchic0124 Aug 15 '22
Someone else mentioned it, but Littles and How They Grow is a super cute book that features a variety of parents/guardians without the adults being the focus of the book at all.
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u/puns_within_puns Aug 15 '22
Tabby McTat by Julia Donaldson has a women couple in the background. Very minor role, but it’s a cute book overall (about a cat).
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u/mills5000 Aug 15 '22
Peyton Picks the Perfect Pie (by America’s Test Kitchen) shows her gay uncles in passing. Also lots of racial diversity including the main character. It’s about a picky eater being scared to try new foods at Thanksgiving.
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u/prettywannapancake Aug 15 '22
"Things in the Sea Are Touching Me" is a New Zealand picture book about a little girl who goes to the seaside with her mum and her ma and keeps getting little frights from the stuff floating in the water. It's lots of fun.
Also, if you have a VPN you can check out TVNZ on demand which has tons of free quality content and there's a thing called Goodnight Kiwi which has loads of New Zealand celebrities (including the Prime Minister) reading bedtime stories (including this one). It's super cute.
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u/Pantherchic53 Aug 15 '22
Over the River and Through The Wood is an awesome Christmas book.
The families all travel to get together at the grandparents house for the holidays (and each family is different - same sex parents, interracial couple, families with twins, families one child, families with lots of children). It’s one of our favourites!! We always talk about how every family is different when we read it.
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u/tellmetheworld Aug 15 '22
There seem to be quite a few with this title! Do you have an author? Seems cozy!
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u/morgue_13 Aug 15 '22
And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
This books is about two penguins who create family together when the zookeepers give the penguin couple an egg that needs parents. It’s a really cute book based on a true story.
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u/wiseeel Aug 15 '22
I love this book, but it has too many words/sentences per page for infants and young toddlers.
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u/NotLucasDavenport Aug 15 '22
OP— kind of like you, we were looking for books that have families like ours in the background of the material. In our case, it was normalizing a multiracial family. My 7 year old son LOVES singing. He only needs to hear a song once and he can recreate the melody. Pete the Cat was mentioned by another part of this thread. and we LOVE Pete. The tv show is perfect because the social lessons and educational activities seem to be in the background while the music the band makes is front and center. Our kid likes it so much he’ll even read the books and then sing the songs he remembers from the show.
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u/sparklesrelic Aug 15 '22
“Baby’s first words” illustrated by Christiane Engel. The kid has 2 dads. Both my girls loved the book.
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u/blackbeltlibrarian Aug 15 '22
Over the River and Through the Wood by Linda Ashman was very inclusive of different families.
I know there’s more - I’ll come back and edit if I remember!
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u/ravioliyogi Aug 15 '22
I really like the Highlights Hello magazine. They feature all kinds of people and families in their issues. I love giving a subscription as a gift to new parents!
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u/MHLCam Aug 15 '22
I Love Us has all types of families. It's a simple book with a little mirror in the back. I'm a 90s kid with 2 moms and had 0 relatable books. I think I turned out half-way decent. It confuses the daycare when I tell them Nana and Grandma are picking up my son which I always chuckle about.
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u/cheezdanish52 Aug 15 '22
Bodies Are Cool doesn't have anything explicit, but lots of queer representation. (And great message!)
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Aug 15 '22
All the World is a beautiful book. There are a few illustrations that suggest same sex parenting. Love this book so much.
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u/MathochismTangram Aug 15 '22
Not a book, but the Netflix show Hilda has this and is also an all-around great show. Maybe for when the LO is older.
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u/nonbinary_parent Aug 15 '22
Not a book, but a cartoon. She-Ra. The character Bow has gay dads and it’s a complete non-issue. The plot about his family is about him worrying his dads won’t approve of his chosen career.
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u/Sekmet19 Aug 15 '22
I don't know of any books but I know the Dragon Prince on Netflix has a main character who has two Dad's. There's also a Deaf character and it's got some pretty good messages about tolerance and acceptance. It's more for 7+ though.
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u/Merkuri22 Mom to 11F Aug 15 '22
Came here to make the same suggestion. It's way for the future for this kid, but I love the inclusivity of the Dragon Prince.
One of the main characters was raised by a gay couple. You meet a kingdom ruled over by two queens who have a daughter together. None of this is treated as odd. Both the gay men and the lesbian queens have their own kisses on camera - again, not a big deal, just naturally part of the scene.
Something more "complex" I noticed about the Dragon Prince is that the king (who's black, by the way) marries a woman who already had a child. So she's not a virgin. And nobody cares. If you know anything at all about real-world politics around royalty, you'll know that marrying a woman who's not a virgin is a huge no-no. In the real world, there's a man in the not too distant past who was supposed to be king of England who abdicated because he fell in love with a widower and the royal family wouldn't let him ascend to the throne while married to someone like that.
But nope, the world of Dragon Prince doesn't judge women based on who they've slept with. So the crown prince winds up with an older brother. And nobody bats an eye. Not even said older brother.
I thought that was a pretty neat way for them to compensate for the unequal treatment of women in the eyes of society today. It's a pretty unique makeup for a royal family.
And it's not a concept that I can explain to my child why I love it so much. But that's okay. She doesn't need to know. She just needs to absorb the big nothingburger deal they make of it.
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u/tellmetheworld Aug 15 '22
This is good to know for the future! Thank you!
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u/iMacThere4iAm Aug 15 '22
The Dragon Prince is an excellent show for slightly older kids, and not just because of the casual inclusion. I love watching it with my kids and without them.
It also has some good tie-in books and graphic novels.
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Aug 15 '22
Families Belong features drawings of various families, including a two-moms family. Also Love Makes A Family.
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u/SuffragettePizza Aug 15 '22
Technically not featuring gay parents but gay grandparents, I would highly recommend 'Grandad's Camper' by Harry Woodgate: https://www.harrywoodgate.com/grandadscamper
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Aug 15 '22
“Blanket of Love” has depictions of several same-sex parents, but it’s just there as a fact of being and not as a focus. Like, they are just there among the hetero parents, playing with their kids and being happy. Plus the book is just cute overall.
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u/Zorrya Aug 15 '22
Flamingo rampant press is a publisher we love as trans parents.
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u/KaleidoscopeHeart11 Aug 15 '22
We watched their storytime at the beginning of the pandemic. It's a highlight from that time I will always treasure.
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u/reddit_and_weeps Aug 15 '22
Aaron Slater Ilustrator! I thought it was such a lovely book (along with the others in the 'series'), it is fun to read and i like the illustrations.
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u/nocatpicspls Aug 15 '22
“Uncle Bobby’s Wedding”. The library has a whole diversity section for kids of all ages that is really nice.
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u/meggypussyfbgm Aug 15 '22
“A day in the life on Marlon Bundo” is a fun book about how boy bunnies should be able to marry boy bunnies. It was featured on John Oliver’s tv show Last week Tonight. Not about gay parents, just a sweet story about getting to marry whoever you love.
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u/citygirluk Aug 15 '22 edited Aug 15 '22
My pirate mums - lovely book where the focus is about how embarrassing it is have pirates for parents, and the fact they are both mums is coincidental - of course all those pirate skills come in useful before the end!
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u/treecookie Aug 15 '22
And also The Marvellous Doctors For Magical Creatures, also by Jodie Lancet-Grant and Lydia Corry. Girl has two dads but it's irrelevant to the story, just a detail. It's great!
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u/lupinloop Aug 15 '22
A book that we love is Julian And The Wedding - the couple getting married are women but the story isn't focused on that - it's just the backdrop for the story of Julian who discovers a new friend and when his outfit gets messy she gives him her dress.
There's also Julian Is A Mermaid it's about the little boy dressing up as a mermaid and doesn't feature parents. Still has a lovely message of acceptance.
Hopefully I'm not repeating someone else's recommendation here!
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u/Apero_ Aug 15 '22
Age appropriate would be "Mommy, Mama and Me" and "Daddy, Papa and Me" (I think those are the titles). It's just about parents playing with their kids but in both cases with same-sex parents. It's also definitely good for very little ones as it's a simple board book with easy language.
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u/Watchingpornwithcas Aug 15 '22
I'm a single mom by choice (used a sperm donor) and I like "All Kinds of Families" as a fun book about family dynamics. My daughter loves it too!
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u/tacoquokka34 Aug 15 '22
We got Federico and All His Families from the library, which had all kinds of families in it - two moms, two dads, single parents, mom and dad, grandparents. My son really liked it.
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u/threequarterturn Aug 15 '22
Yes! I was going to mention this one. It’s especially good for younger kiddos, but my 4 year old still occasionally requests it.
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u/alpacapug Aug 15 '22
Try out your library and some of the newer board books, and the buy the real winners if you're so inclined. We were pleasantly surprised how much casual inclusion there is in some of the newer books. Same sex parents, interracial parents, single parents, people/kids with disabilities, and so on.
To your question, one that comes to mind is "Baby Loves Justice," it's about political science but casually features a kid with two moms, one is a judge. I dont know if the other "Baby Loves" books in the series are the same, but worth a try!
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u/ftdo Aug 15 '22
We have Mommy, Mama and Me which is the two moms version of that book! It's one of my kid's favourites (despite not having two moms herself).
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u/PM_MAJESTIC_PICS Aug 15 '22
There’s a book called “Everywhere Babies” that has illustrations of all kinds of families.
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u/Coconut-bird Aug 15 '22
This one was recently banned due to its illustrations including same sex couples. But it is really an incredibly sweet book with all kids of families illustrated by one of my favorite picture book artists. I highly recommend it.
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u/clutzycook Aug 15 '22
It wouldn't work for a 3 month old, but when they're older, look into the Missy Piggle-Wiggle books by Ann M. Martin. In one of the books, I recall that one of the families had a same sex couple, but they were just there. The story wasn't about them, but rather their kids.
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u/dathyni Aug 16 '22
Hold up. What? I do not remember this. Admittedly, I only had one book.
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u/charugan Aug 15 '22
Our two-year-old loves "Monday is One Day." Every family is a different living situation... Including gay parents but also single parents, grandparents, etc. Nothing is done to bring attention to this... It's just art while telling the story.
It's not the best book in the world... For one, all of the kids just look like tiny adults. But she requests it all the time.
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u/islipped83 Aug 15 '22
We just got some Lovevery books, and there’s a story about a boy named Sullivan being brave and he has a Mama and a Mommy. But it’s about him, not his moms. I think you can only get it bundled with the toy subscription box, unless you can find it separately somewhere (called “You can do it!”): https://lovevery.com/community/blog/product-recommendations/introducing-book-bundles-for-the-play-kits-by-lovevery/
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u/IneptlySociable Aug 15 '22
Freckleface Strawberry Backpacks. One of the characters, Patrick, has two moms and it’s just mentioned in passing.
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u/biloentrevoc Aug 15 '22
We are Little Feminists has a series of three board books featuring photos of extremely diverse families. There’s one that shows people of all different abilities (in wheelchairs, wearing leg braces, etc) doing all kinds of things. Another one has photos of all types of families, gay, straight—it even includes a picture of a pregnant trans man (thank god no one at Fox News has found this book yet). The third book in the series is about different hair textures.
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u/kyamh Aug 15 '22
Llama llama misses mama and llama llama mess mess mess are big hits around here. That series is about a single mom, but it's never a part of the actual story.
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u/jadegreyfox Aug 15 '22
I don’t have any suggestions but I want to follow this thread to find some because I’m running into the same issue. I love that there are books that feature different family dynamics but I agree that it doesn’t always have to be the main focus of the book.
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u/wwemegan Aug 15 '22
An Ordinary Day
Elana K. Arnold, 2020
About one family grieving the passing of a dog, (2 mummas) and a neighbor welcoming a new baby (mum/dad)
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u/Alpacalypsenoww Aug 15 '22
Not sure if you’re moms or dads, but if you are men there is a book called Daddy be Leslie Patricelli. It’s not about gay parents, it’s just a book about all sorts of things the kid does with their dad, but on one of the pages it says how all daddies look different and two of the daddies are holding hands and have shared kids so they’re obviously a couple.
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u/newtothettccrew Aug 15 '22
The Best Bed For Me is literally that- a cute bedtime story that just happens to have two moms, which is not explicitly mentioned in the text of the book.
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u/libdurk Aug 15 '22
We’re in the middle of a move so I can’t look, but Marlon Bundo either has gay parents or is a gay bunny, or has gay friends…
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u/OracleOfDiscord Aug 15 '22
Good Night Families by Adam Gamble consists entirely of lots of different kinds of families going about their lives! (There's a whole series of the Good Night books, but this is the only one we actually like.)
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u/krazikat Aug 15 '22
It's not a book, but the kids show Loud House has a gay married couple who are parents to the main character's best friend. They're actually quite funny. It's a cartoon btw
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u/square--one Aug 15 '22
The Pirate Mums and also The Marvellous Doctors for Magical Creatures by Jodie Lancet-Grant. Also Tabby McTat by Julia Donaldson has an incidental lesbian couple!
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u/Capital-Sir Aug 15 '22
Not a book but the show The Loud House. The main character's best friend has two dads an interracial marriage.
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u/hanmeaknife Aug 15 '22
“‘‘Twas the night before pride” I love this one, it’s about coming together and accepting everybody main message being what makes a family is love
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u/NonSupportiveCup Aug 16 '22
Frog and toad. Not really parenting. No idea if they are even gay. But they are two amphibians who care for each other very much and do things together
From the 70s.
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u/Milka700 Aug 16 '22
Random…kind of relates… If you order books on Amazon check out Other Sellers on Amazon. I have gotten a used book for a third of the price, with only a library barcode sticker on it.
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u/Acceptable-Mine8806 Aug 16 '22
Ok, this is a book series for future you, but NPH wrote a fantastic young adults (ages 8-12 ) series that has a main character with two dads. It's a complete non-issue, but they do acknowledge it and talk about it in a very thoughtful way, which I like. The books are also well-written and I love them for their own sake. Magic, mystery, and puzzles sprinkled throughout! It's called The Magic Misfits.
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u/merveilleuse_ Aug 16 '22
My Parents Won't Stop Talking. The family is going. To the park, and the parents stop to talk to the neighbours and the kids get really bored. Parents just happen to be a same sex couple.
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u/kroy23 Aug 16 '22
This isn't a book, but a TV show on Netflix. Dragon Prince is excellent and has a few gay characters. A badass lesbian couple has a child. The show is not about them being gay at all, they just exist within the world. It's also a fantasy epic.
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u/crunchyssalad Aug 19 '22
I’m not sure if this has been recommended already, but a book I grew up with is called “The Family Book” by Todd Parr. It talks about families with straight parental situations, same-sex, single parent households, multiracial families, etc
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u/saltyegg1 Aug 15 '22
Babies everywhere
Edit: this shows i comment before reading the whole post
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u/Plane_Chance863 Aug 15 '22
Most of us do ;) especially when there are almost 100 comments already...
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Aug 15 '22
This may miss the mark of what you’re looking for, I just can’t help but rave about this book. The focus is on gay people and history in general- The Night Before Pride features two moms and explains in kid-friendly terms why pride celebrations exist.
I was so lucky to meet the author and her wife at drag story time at my local children’s museum. It’s a bedtime favorite now!
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u/NotTheJury Parent to 16m and 14f Aug 15 '22
I haven't been in the picture book game for a few years but you could probably find a storybook about the new Lightyear movie.
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u/wiggysbelleza Aug 15 '22
Babies Can Sleep Anywhere
It’s a cute board book and it shows all kinds of families on the last page. I wouldn’t say it features gay parents but they are in there.
It’s a sweet little rhyming bedtime story and one of my daughter’s favorites.
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u/thepastperfect Aug 15 '22
The Bread Pet by Kate DePalma is about a girl whose uncle gives her a sourdough starter and it grows out of control. She has two moms and her uncle wears a rainbow shirt but the adults aren't the focus of the story.
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u/Disorderly_Chaos Aug 16 '22
Just read do your child. Reading helps with development. Also, you child has no idea what the words are for at least another few years. Get a post it and a sharpie and re-do some pronouns.
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Aug 16 '22
Why not just books with good moral values that teach your kid in fun ways. I mean the kid is probably going to see plenty of gay that it doesn’t have to be all consuming. Pete the cat is cool af but he’s not gay. Also straight parents don’t look for straight books. This is weird proud or not. Is it your intention to sway your child into thinking gay is right over who they may grow to be? 😬 I bet that shit floats real nice in like 17 years…
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u/tellmetheworld Aug 16 '22
kids of straight parents are surrounded by depictions of their parents in movies, tv, books, schools, society etc. So straight parents don’t have to look for straight books. Almost ALL the books are straight. children of gay people don’t have this. So they rarely see a family that looks like them in early life. I’m not trying to exclusively teach my child one thing or another. I’m just trying to gently show them through passive story telling that they aren’t “weird” for having two moms. Your comment is ignorant and unhelpful. Just move along
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Aug 17 '22
Not sure how it’s ignorant. I have teenagers. I have tried to instill what I think and have watched them rebel against what I think just because they have heard me their whole lives. I have 5 children, all high honor roll, 1 received the presidential award for academic excellence. Also, the only books that had humans in it when they were children was about a witch that ate everything… All the rest were creatures. Wasn’t trying to hurt your feelings. Don’t ask for advice if you only want what you want to hear. Moving along now🫠.
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u/pulled_the_ace Aug 15 '22
Try "Families Can" and "Families Grow" by Dan Saks - we've had people gift both books to us. Both books are basically about the idea that Families can come in different forms but that they are basically all great. "Families can" is more about the different compositions a family can take, while "Families grow" is more about the different ways kids become part of a family. Both books feature all kinds of families.
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u/UmpireHoliday211 Aug 15 '22
We read Heather has two mommies, it says what both of the parents do but isn’t super focused on the two mommies. It also lists a bunch of different types of family settings at the end (step parents, grandparents, single parents) it’s a very charming little book, we enjoy it a lot
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u/BrightFireFly Aug 15 '22
“A Home Under the Stars” Character seems to have two moms as depicted in the art - but it isn’t mentioned at all.
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u/Accomplished_Talk_18 Aug 15 '22
Over the River and Through the Woods. It's a winter book but it had everything.
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u/Qualityhams Aug 15 '22
Babies can sleep anywhere is a short cute book for little kids that features some lgbtq couples and families at the end. It’s subtle but still enough to get bad reviews from bigots I guess
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u/HotDamn18V Aug 15 '22
I Love You Because I Love You isn't explicitly about same sex parents, but it includes and portrays them and other types of diverse families as all being equivalent and normal and loving without drawing any attention to them as different than any other familial configuration.
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u/AdministrationNo9238 Aug 15 '22
Man… we had a book from the library where two African American cousins stay at the aunt’s house. Aunt is in a same-sex relationship.
Never even mentioned in the book. Took me a few read-through a to notice.
All I remember is it was Auntie Zuri… maybe
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Aug 15 '22
We Move Together depicts gay dads in the art on one page and what appears to be two women getting coffee together on a bench on another page.
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u/look_away_look_away Aug 15 '22
“All about families.” It’s definitely for older children (probably age 3+), but it has everything between same-sex, interracial, disabilities, single parents, etc
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u/tgfbetta Aug 15 '22
“Love makes a family” by Sophie Beer depicts scenes of a bunch of different types of families without emphasizing the differences. The families just are. My kid loves this book.
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u/ollieastic Aug 15 '22
I haven't found more casual books with a story that feature same sex parents. Two books that feature different types of families that we like a lot that come to mind are Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer and Families Can by Dan Saks.
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u/TinyAngelWishes Aug 15 '22
Grandad’s Camper - the author is amazing. A beautiful book that we loved in my class. Harry Woodgate is the author.
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u/Stormy2021 Aug 15 '22
I like, "It feels good to be yourself." It's about gender identity, but includes imagery of same-sex couples as parents.
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u/MrsFannyBertram Aug 15 '22
Highlights Hello! Magazine for babies/toddlers features all types of families and my kids have all loved them. ( And even though it's called a magazine they're very durable we still have one from when my son was a baby 10 years ago)
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u/Hummingbirdsoup Aug 15 '22
All Kinds of Families is a great board book for younger kids
All Are Welcome is a simple, beautiful story set in a diverse urban neighborhood. We especially liked that some of the families live in apartments (like us) instead of large homes with yards
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u/Tealbird123 Aug 15 '22
Love in the Wild has all sorts of animals cuddling and they include two male lions, and some others, it’s a very sweet book!
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u/beedub016 Aug 15 '22
I wrote a kids picture book called The Dragon King of Qas'an-Veloor. It's a little more than passive about its gay main character and his partner, but that's far from the main topic. I wrote it basically because I didn't recall ever seeing kids fantasy with gay characters, and wanted to help passively normalise different relationships for my sons.
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u/capitolsara Aug 15 '22
I got such a cute book but it is a Jewish one and I don't think in normal circulation or publication. It has two moms and doesn't make any commentary on it at all, just instead of being heteronormative where it would show a mom and a dad. I thought it was so special to hold this book, which talks about Shabbat, but replaces the father for a mother and gives my child such a natural example of a gay relationship
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u/lemontechbar Aug 15 '22
“A family is a family is a family” is one my kids enjoy. Also “The Great Big book of families” And finally “King & king”
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u/Any-Difficulty-8694 Aug 15 '22
You should totally write one! A lot of books started out because there were none of its kind before
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u/ruitee Aug 15 '22
The Little Red Stroller by Joshua Furst. Lots of different families shown, adorable book.
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u/kimzon Aug 15 '22
Littles and how they grow is a board book that is very sweet and has an illustration of two mums on one of the pages. :)
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u/velociraptorbaby kids: 4M, 1.5F Aug 15 '22
I have Love makes a family by Sophie beer and it's about how families show love and features all types of parents without it being pointed out. It's been a great starter book to talk to my kids about families with single parents, interracial, gay, grandparents raising them. She also has a book kindness makes us strong featuring different ways friends can be kind toward each other. They are super simple and short books, but my son likes to spend time on each page pointing out different things.
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u/emfred999 Aug 15 '22
There is a Captain Underpants book that did this wonderfully, unfortunately it will be for when your child is older but maybe you could just hold on to it. It's the time machine one. They fast forward in the future and you get to see the two main characters families. One of the boys grows up to have a wife and kids the other boy grows up to have a husband and a baby (I think, it's been awhile, I'm sure about the husband thing though). It was really cool because it wasn't a thing. It was just oh that's George's husband and my kid was like "oh, cool" and then we continued the story.
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u/thetomatofiend Aug 15 '22
There's a lesbian couple in Tabby McTat, and the story is about the cat, not them.
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u/pieceofpatchwork Aug 15 '22
I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but the Highlights Hello (0-2 years) and Highlights High Five (3-5 years) magazines my kids get sometimes do.
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u/JMurph3313 Aug 15 '22
“My Clothes, Your Clothes” is a book about what your clothing can say about you, your interests, culture etc. The family just happens to be two kids with two moms.
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u/OrinthiaBlue Aug 15 '22
We have Going Up by Sherry J Lee. My personal favorite is A Different Dragon by Jennifer Bryan.
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u/Sanctuary_Moon119 Aug 15 '22
Bathe the cat is a very funny story about a family rushing to do chores before Gramma comes, and the family has two dads. Sent it in with my son to preschool and the whole class found it hilarious.