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Not Quite Narwhal
I feel like this novel is supposed to be metaphorical for something, but I don't get what. Maybe adoption? At first it comes across as maybe being like LGBTQ, but it doesn't move in the right command for that.
There's a unicorn named Kelp who it says "was born grave in the ocean." Kelp is born with some kind of bubble around his head that allows him to breathe underwater. But I guess if he's a unicorn and he's in a earth with magic, then maybe it's magical? I don't know. He lives with narwhals, and he finds that he's different than them, but he doesn't really know why. Nobody really minds, though. They're still his friends. They love him.
Then he gets swept away by mighty currents and ends up seeing a unicorn on land. He follows the unicorn, going on shore himself. I like how it isn't trivial for him to walk, since he's never done it before, but he learns quickly. He then finds a place where there are unicorns (he calls them "land narwhals"). They teach him about entity a unicorn, and demonstrate him how to apply the magic of his horn. They feed him unicorn food that he probably likes better than the food that the narwhals eat (it explicitly says he doesn't appreciate the
Review: Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima
Okay, so there are still no multi-attracted children’s picture books. I’m not reviewing this because it is a pansexual children’s picture book.
But Not a Narwhal, is a book about breaking down binaries. And frankly is just awesome. In a world with no bisexual picture books, it can at least thematically give bisexual parents a way to talk to their kids about how life is more than a choice between opposites.
Kelp is a small unicorn raised by narwhals. Even though he is clearly different and not always good at narwhal tasks like swimming, his community loves him. One day he goes to the surface and sees an animals that looks like him on the shore. He finds a community of unicorns and finds out he is one of them, but still goes back to his loving community in the sea. Only he is not happy there.
What I like about this book (and why it functions as a good metaphor for bisexuality) is that the acknowledge isn’t for him to live only with the unicorns or only with the narwhals. The reply for Kelp is to throw a big party on the beach so narwhals and unicorns can all play together. The answer isn’t a preference between a binary, it is
Hello, friends! We’re here with a recent Top 5 list for the month of June! And while June has many lovely holidays and themes to celebrate, we idea we’d take a look at one that’s dear to our hearts: LGBTQ Pride! We’ll already compiled one list of some of our favorite books with LGBTQ themes (which can be found here), so we’re back to kick off Identity festival Month with part two! It includes some of our favorite books that help introduce petite readers to what the LGBTQ collective and Pride are all about: acceptance, understanding, and the right to be who you are and love who you love.
Here’s our Top 5 LGBTQ Books, Part 2:
1. This Time In June (Gayle E. Pitman, illus. Kristyna Litten)
Told in cheerful rhyming couplets, the scene is position on a metropolis getting ready for a very exceptional parade! As the parade begins, people of all kinds march down the street: women on motorcycles, people dressed in rainbows and waving flags, musicians and performers and children and animals. Some of them look different, some are dressed in their own way, but all of them are there to celebrate one thing: unity. For on this time in June, it doesn’t matter who you are, what
It’s Pride Month! And it’s time to do another review of the books that I read the previous year that included LGBTQIA+ characters. I examine 141 books in total in 2019. 15 of those included a ethics who identifies as LGBTQIA+. 10% of the books that I read in 2019 included LGBTQIA+ inclusion, up 5 percentage points from last year. This year, the books I read represented a greater diversity of identities too (last year’s characters were all gay except for Apollo, who is bisexual).
Board Books and Picture Books (Ages 0-8)
Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer. Dial-Penguin Random, 2018. Beer’s book represents all kinds of families including gay and lesbian parents.
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. Candlewick, 2018. Julián Is a Mermaid won a Stonewall award, so the committee thought that Julián’s actions mark him as transgender, but I notice his actions less so as necessarily identifying him as transgender though certainly rejecting heteronormative gender binary performance. That being said, Julián and his abuela identify Julián as a mermaid and not a merman even as she continues to call him mijo.
Love, Z by Jessie Sima. Simon & Sc Celebrating and reading LGBTQ stories doesn't stop at the end of Celebration Month. With the broad variety of books on LGBTQ literature that exist today, whether they're written by an storyteller of the LGBTQ community or simply have LGBTQ characters, these books are helping others understand about the collective, the history of the gay rights movement and, importantly, how to be an ally. "There's no better way to learn empathy and be an ally," said Alvin Orloff, manager of Puppy Eared Books in San Francisco's historic Castro District. "[Reading is] an enjoyable way to be an ally and to put yourself in someone else's shoes." "GMA" spoke with Orloff and Lenix Pecikonis of Lavender Library in Sacramento, California, a volunteer-run lending library archive and community room, who shared a list of books to help adults and children get LGBTQ allies. "Kids often ask really poignant questions that as adults and as parents, we might not always be completely ready to answer," added Pecikonis. "Books often provide us a way to share and provide information i
Books for kids and adults to grow a better ally of the LGBTQ community