{"id":95824,"date":"2025-06-01T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/?p=95824"},"modified":"2025-06-08T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:23:30","slug":"lgbtq-kids-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/lgbtq-kids-books\/","title":{"rendered":"100+ Kids&#8217; Picture Books That Spotlight LGBTQ+ Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Pride month in full effect, it&#8217;s a wonderful time to introduce children to the many shades and styles that love and families come in, not to mention the rich history of the LGBTQ+ movement. We&#8217;ve rounded up over 100 (!) books to help, from stories of families featuring same-sex parents, to tales of kids who are trans, non-binary, or just simply want to express themselves in extra-special ways. The message at the heart of each and every title is that love is love and everyone deserves it. Click through the full slideshow below, and be sure to add some of these colorful stories to your home library!<\/p>\n<p><i>For more stellar kids\u2019 book roundups, check out <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/best-black-history-books-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100+ Black history books for kids<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/black-childrens-illustrators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30+ incredible Black illustrators<\/a> to follow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/kids-books-about-dads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">75+ books that are all about dads<\/a>, <\/i><i>and\u00a0<\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/picture-books-without-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">20 awesome picture books without words<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Pride month in full effect, it&#8217;s a wonderful time to introduce children to the many shades and styles that love and families come in, not to mention the rich history of the LGBTQ+ movement. We&#8217;ve rounded up over 100 (!) books to help, from stories of families featuring same-sex parents, to tales of kids&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":130631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,124],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150608,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95824\/revisions\/150608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}