Recommended List of Picture Books for Queer Families

The following list was compiled by PFP board member and Free Library of Philadelphia employee Joel Nichols.
Let us know in the comments if there are other books you’d put on this list!
In addition to Amazon, please check your local bookstore such as Bindlestiff Books in West Philly, Big Blue Marble Book Store in Mt. Airy or Philly AIDS Thrift at Giovanni’s Room in Center City.
Story of Ferdinand:  Leaf, Munro 1936
Little Blue and Little Yellow:  Lionni, Leo 1962
Where the Wild Things Are:  Sendak, Maurice 1963
A Color of His Own:  Lionni, Leo 1975
The Paper Bag Princess:  Munsch, Robert 1980
Tacky the Penguin:  Lester, Helen 1990
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed:  Chodos-Irvine, Margaret 2003
The Family Book:  Todd Parr 2003
The Sissy Duckling: Fierstein, Harvey 2005
Rosie Revere Engineer: Beaty, Andrea 2005
10,000 Dresses:  Ewert, Marcus 2008 (Some disagreement on our board over this book. What do you think?)
My Princess Boy:  Kilodavis, Cheryl 2009
Cinnamon Baby:  Winstanley, Nicola 2011
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild:  Brown, Peter 2013
Wild:  Hughes, Emily 2013
Not every princess:  Bone, Jeffrey and Lisa 2014
This Day in June:  Pitman, Gayle E. 2014
Jacob’s New Dress:  Hoffman, Ian and Sarah 2014
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress: Baldacchino, Christine 2014
Happy in Our Skin:  Manushkin, Fran 2015
Red: a Crayon’s Story:  Hall, Michael 2015
Worm Loves Worm: Austrian, J.J. 2016