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About the books…
We’re delighted to continue our collaboration with Gay’s the Word, the UK’s oldest, dedicated LGBTQ+ bookshop with the advice of Dr Erica Gillingham, who studied with the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literatureat University of Roehampton, on our selection of school-age books.
We are confident that the book collections give the broadest possible representation of LGBTQ+ lives and experiences. They are categorised by Early Years, Primary, Secondary (Lower and Upper) and Classics. When you order you will receive 15 books from your preferred list. If there are any particular books you would like then please specify when you order, otherwise we send what is in stock. Your book box will also contain posters and stickers to encourage your LGBTQ+ readers!
The letters next to each text give librarians, teachers and readers an idea of who is represented in the stories. The Classics List includes some of the most well-known, influential and groundbreaking texts that highlight our queer literary heritage. These books will appeal to older students reading for pleasure and those interested in Literature or Queer Studies at university. Whereas the Fiction Lists fuel the imagination and give voices to a broad range of imagined LGBT+ experiences, the Non-Fiction List provides young people of all ages with advice and information that will help them develop with confidence and awareness.
Ideas for Librarians and Teachers
- A YA Odyssey: weekly review of a YA novel
- Prizes for readers who read the lists
- Prizes for book reviews – review of the week!
- Help us promote our collections by engaging with our social media – tell us about a book you’ve loved and post on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. Use #MomentsOfChange
- Fundraise, campaign and use social media to support us to try and get an LGBTQ+ set of books in every school in the country!
- Use the stickers to encourage your young readers!
Download this poster to display in your library and show that you have LGBTQ+ books available!
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Gay’s The Word is the UK’s oldest LGBT bookshop and a touchstone for the broader LGBT community. The bookshop was set up in January 1979 by a group of gay socialists as a community space where all profits were funnelled back into the business…
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PRIDE in Classics Book Collection is collated for you through our continued partnership with Gay’s The Word Bookshop and Dr Erica Gillingham who studied with the ... Read More
PRIDE in Secondary Education Book Collection has been collated for you through our continued partnership with Gay’s The Word Bookshop and Dr Erica Gillingham who studied ... Read More
PRIDE in Primary Education Book Collection has been collated for you through our continued partnership with Gay’s The Word Bookshop and Dr Erica Gillingham who studied ... Read More
We provide a set of beautiful picture books for infants, nurseries and children’s centres as recommended by Gay's The Word bookshop and our teacher colleagues...
Individual Books
Our CEO, Dr Elly Barnes MBE and Dr Anna Carlile of Goldsmiths University of London Department of Educational Studies have teamed up to bring you ... Read More
Thank you to PopNOlly for making these cut out family characters for you to use in your lessons! There are 4 different sheets for you ... Read More
Our CEO, Dr Elly Barnes MBE and Dr Anna Carlile of Goldsmiths University of London Department of Educational Studies have teamed up to bring you ... Read More
It’s April 1940 and German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark. 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down ... Read More
From the genius of David Levithan, co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, comes a love story like no other you’ve read ... Read More
I’m supposed to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice. But I’m sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am ... Read More
It’s okay to need some help. It’s okay to be a different colour. It’s okay to talk about your feelings. It’s okay to make a ... Read More
Heather’s favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, and two pets. And she also has two mommies. When Heather goes to school ... Read More
The Family Book celebrates the love we feel for our families and all the different varieties they come in. Whether you have two mothers or ... Read More
Tabby McTat is purr-fectly happy, singing along all day with Fred the busker. But when Fred gives chase to a thief, the two are separated. ... Read More
Our society is changing. An increasing number of gay couples are having children through adoption and surrogacy. At some point you should explain to your ... Read More
A simple story, about a small creature who does his best to join in with the others. But he's different. No matter how he tries, he just doesn't belong. Then Something turns up and wants to be friends. But Something Else isn't sure he...
Grace loves to act out stories. Sometimes she plays the leading part, sometimes she is ‘a cast of thousands.’ When her school decides to perform Peter ... Read More
“A Tale of Two Daddies” is a playground conversation between two children. The boy says he heard that the girl has two dads. The girl ... Read More
Errol and his teddy, Thomas, are best friends who do everything together. Whether it’s riding a bike, playing in the tree house, having a tea ... Read More
We Are All Made of Molecules Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed “It” girl in her class, but ... Read More
Hold Me Closer : The Tiny Cooper Story It’s Tiny Cooper’s turn in the spotlight in this companion novel to New York Times bestseller Will Grayson, Will Grayson. ... Read More
What We Left Behind From the critically acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselvescomes an emotional, empowering story of what happens when love may not be ... Read More
gena-finn The story follows the unlikely friendship of two young women forged via fan fiction and message boards, and is told entirely in texts, chats, ... Read More
Hero The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father’s pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has ... Read More
Every Day Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. There’s never any warning about ... Read More
Lies We Tell Ourselves In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. ... Read More
If I Was Your Girl Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school in Lambertville, Tennessee. Like any other girl, all she wants is to ... Read More
Pantomime Gene’s life resembles a debutante’s dream. Yet she hides a secret that would see her shunned by the nobility. Gene is both male and ... Read More
Two Mums and a Menagerie Many Families Are Different, This One Has Two Mums. Fur, feathers and family fun! Many families are different, this one ... Read More
Families, Families, Families No matter your size, shape, or pedigree-if you love each other, you are a family! Moms, dads, sisters, brothers — and even ... Read More
When Dandelion & Sunny find an egg there’s quite a ‘to do’, as nobody knows who it belongs to. Follow the budgie boys as they try ... Read More
Jamie - A Transgender Cinderella Story What happens when you don’t have a fairy godmother to grant your every wish? Jamie doesn’t. So she finds ... Read More
GEORGE BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she’s not a boy. She knows ... Read More
Stella Brings the Family Stella’s class is having a Mother’s Day celebration, but what’s a girl with two daddies to do? It’s not that she ... Read More
Interstellar Cinderella Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamed of fixing fancy rockets. With a little help from ... Read More
I Could Be, You Could Be Join a young boy and girl on thrilling adventures as they imagine themselves as space travelling astronauts, ferocious dragons ... Read More
Made by Raffi This book deserves to be in every school and read in every family for a whole plethora of reasons. It’s bold, tackling ... Read More
Little Red is on his way to visit his grandmother on the other side of the wood. Ignoring all warnings of wolves in the wood, ... Read More
This is the tenth anniversary hardback edition of and tango makes three. Click here for the paperback edition. This tenth-anniversary edition of the best selling, heart warming true story of two penguins who create a family and the...
This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each...
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with . . . Will Grayson. Two guys with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected direction...
Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl, but it's a shock to everyone when she cuts her hair short, buys some men's clothes, and announces she'd like to be called by a new name, Grady. Although Grady is happy about his...
Mike doesn't get why people think he's boring. Sure, he doesn't have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. And he's never invited to parties. But one day Tschick,...
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette dec...
Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other ...
It's hard enough being one half of the world's least identical twins, without both of you falling for the same guy. Jolene's turned flirting into a fine art, but Jody? Not so much. And as if a twinny love triangle wasn't messy enough ....
Paul has been gay his whole life and he’s confident about almost everything. He doesn’t have to hide his feelings like best friend Tony or even cope with loving the wrong guy like his other best friend Joni. But heartbreak can...
J always felt different. He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl. Yet as he grew up, his body began to betray him; eventually J stopped praying to wake up a 'real...
In Peters's critically acclaimed novel, she explores another neglected but important issue: the inspirational story of a transgendered teen. Luna confronts the mystery, the confusion and the struggles of gender identity in this...
The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered f...
Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They've shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love--Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten,...
Joe Bunch's 8th grade English teacher has given his students an assignment to write an "alphabiography" over the course of the school year. With each letter of the alphabet representing a different chapter, Totally Joe tells the story of...
Nicola Lancaster is spending her summer at the Siegel Institute, a hothouse of smart, intense teenagers. She soon falls in with Katrina (Manic Computer Chick), Isaac (Nice-Guy-Despite-Himself), Kevin (Inarticulate Composer) . . . and Bat...
In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Ash isn't just a lesbian love story, a fairy tale, or even a retelling of the Cinderella tale; it's a delicious blend of these genres that combine them i...
Find a FREE download of the original song, backing track, lyrics, actions and chords here! Rabbit enjoys doing rabbity things, but he also loves un-rabbity things! When Rabbit suddenly disappears, no one knows where he has gone. His f...
When 10-year-old Colin’s brother is diagnosed with terminal leukemia, he is sent to London to live with his aunt and uncle. His quest to find a top cancer doc-tor to cure his brother turns into an adventure filled with humour,...
When Pea and her sisters move house from Tenby to London and their mum becomes the new bestselling author of the Mermaid Books, everything changes. Will Pea be able to find a new best friend in London?...
Alone at home, twelve-year-old Grayson Sender glows, immersed in beautiful thoughts and dreams. But at school, Grayson grasps at shadows, determined to fly under the radar. Because Grayson has been holding onto a secret for what...
Dennis lives in a boring house in a boring street in a boring town. But he’s about to nd out that when you open your mind, life becomes anything but boring!...
June.. Parade starts soon.. Rainbow arches.. Joyful marches! In a wildly whimsical, validating, and exuberant refection of the LGBT+ community, This Day In June welcomes readers to experience a Pride celebration and share in a day...
George says the cardboard house is his and his alone. It isn’t for girls, small people, twins, people with glasses, or people who like tunnels. But when he leaves the cardboard house for a little while, he comes back to nd that...
Every year Gerald dreads the great Jungle Dance, and feels ashamed that he cannot tango and two-step with the rest of the jungle animals. But then one day he realises that it doesn’t matter that he is different from everyone else -...
More than anything, William wants a doll. "Don't be a creep," says his brother. "Sissy, sissy," chants the boy next door. Then one day someone really understands William's wish, and makes it easy for others to understand, too.
In her dreams, Bailey is a young girl. Every night she dreams about magical dresses. Unfortunately, when Bailey wakes up, nobody wants to hear about her beautiful dreams. This is because Bailey is a boy and shouldn't be thinking about...
'Are you a Boy or are you a Girl?' is unlike any kind of children's book you've seen before. With your help, we can talk gender creatively and with confidence, and assist parents and teachers the world over. What makes this book new is...
It is time for Prince Henry to find someone to marry, or so his parents think. Join Henry in his fairytale kingdom where certain laws apply when its comes to choosing who you can spend your life with. A fairytale romance intended for...
The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald--who is less than pleased at ...
Find a FREE download of the original song, backing track, lyrics, actions and chords here! Roy and Silo are just like the other penguin couples at the zoo - they bow to each other, walk together and swim together. But Roy and Silo are...
Find a FREE download of the original song, backing track, lyrics, actions and chords here! This is the story of two children, Josh and Jaz, who have been adopted by a lesbian couple. It explains how their birth mother was unable to ta...
Donovan's two moms are getting married, and he can't wait for the celebration to begin. After all, as ringbearer, he has a very important job to do. Any boy or girl with same-sex parents—or who knows a same-sex couple—will appreciate...
This fun and fascinating treasury features all kinds of families and their lives together. Each spread showcases one aspect of home life - from houses and holidays, to schools and pets, to feelings and family trees. Ros Asquith's humorou...
A charming picture book for young children which shows that families come in all shapes and sizes.
Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its daddies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together....
Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together....
This story is about two friends, Sue and Nick, who like different colours but are still good friends. The artwork is stunning with each artist contributing alternate pages in their own inimitable style. The deceptively simple text is...
Sixteen year old and not so openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when on email falls into the wrong hands,his secrets at risk of being thrust into the spotlight....
Sylvie and Carl have been best friends since forever, but as they grow older things start to change. And when Carl's new friend Paul comes onto the scene, Sylvie hardly gets to see him, Why is Carl spending so much time with Paul? And...
Kitty's keeping secrets. like how she's struggling to cope with her mum's Illness. And how she's falling for the girl with purpley-red hair. Starring Kitty is the first in a series about first love and friendship by much loved teen...
Set during the the Nazi occupation ft Denmark in World War 2, this novel is based on stories that Toksvig's grandfather told her when she was growing up. l2-year-old Bamse and his friend Anton want to join the Danish Resistance Movement ...
When Pea and her sisters move house from Tenby to London and their mum becomes the new bestselling author of the Mermaid books, everything changes. Will Pea be able to find a new best friend in London?...
Dennis lives in a boring street,In a boring town but he's about to find out that when you open your mind, life becomes anything but boring! You'll laugh, you'll cry, and once you've met Dennis he'll live with you forever ....
When a grouchy Queen tells her son it is time to marry, he sighs ‘very well, Mother... I must say though, I’ve never cared much for princesses’. Their search for a bride extends far and wide, but none of the eligible princesses strike...
Find a FREE download of the original song, backing track, lyrics, actions and chords here! Paperback: 19 pages Publisher: British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) (8 ... Read More