Lgbtq books for elementary students
LGBTQIA+ Booklists and Resources
A collection of booklists and resources that highlight the LGBTQIA+ community and experience. This list provides resources and educational materials for kids of all ages and their caregivers to promote respect and understanding, including guidance on pronouns and identities.
To recognize and observe the activism, culture, and history of the LGBTQIA+ community, the CBC has curated an up-to-date list of new and backlist books. This list was created in June of and we will add books throughout the year.
You can also download the list as a spreadsheet!
Discover books that celebrate love in all forms and underline LGBTQIA+ icons and activities. Allies welcome!
Young Adult and Children&#;s Booklists
Educational Resources
- GLSEN’s Rainbow Library offers to transmit out free LGBTQIA+ books and ebooks to schools in most states. Other states are welcome to submit an application and join. They also provide Elementary Lesson Plans (with Additional Curricular Resources below) for teachers.
- LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide: LGBTQ+ You
These books range from board books to early reader. For children 8 and up, see Middle Grade.
*Not Yet Released
Picture Book Biographies
These books are listed in order of last entitle by (first-listed) subject.
Little Golden Book Biographies
Who Is/Was? series
Standalones
Board Books with LGBTQ Content/Themes
Gender, Orientation, and/or Terminology
Queer Cis Male Main Characters
Queer Cis Female Main Characters
Transgender Main Characters (Binary)
Girls
Boys
Nonbinary Main Characters
Gender Non-Conforming Main Characters
Queer Family
Dads
Moms
Non-Binary/Gender Non-Conforming Parents
- My Maddy by Gayle Pitman and Violet Tobacco
Siblings
- *The Broken Heart by Aaron Chan
- Still My Tessa by Sylv Chiang and Mathias Ball
Aunts/Uncles/Cousins
Grandparents
Pride/Stonewall
Trans Themes
- *The House That Feels Like Me by Sasha Allen and Julian Plum
Early Reader Books
Female MCs
Male MCs
Nonbinary MCs
Chapter Books
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LGBT History Month: Books for Kids
October is LGBTQ+ History month! In , Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school lecturer, believed a month should be consecrated to the celebration and teaching of gay and womxn loving womxn history. He gathered other teachers and community leaders. They selected October because public schools are in session and existing traditions, such as Coming Out Day (October 11), occur that month.
The LGBT History Month website highlights a different person each day during the month of October. Click here to see who is nominated this year and what they did for the LGBTQ+ community.
Queer History A to Z is an alphabet book for older readers that is packed full of information. Readers will be able to relate to youth activists and children’s issues as good as learn about all those convert makers who came before.
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the most well-known people in the fight for Homosexual rights in the ’s and ’s. In Sylvia and Marsha Start A Revolution!, young children can learn about their lives and their activism.
As part of the accepted History Co
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