10 Children's Books That Paved The Way For A New Queer Protagonist

In Kendrick Daye and Myles E. Johnson's Large Fears, Jeremiah Nebula may not be a bullfrog. But he is the queer, black protagonist of a children's picture book -- a genre traditionally dominated by heterosexual, cisgender, white characters. Although the politics of representation is an issue for all literary forms, parent sensitivity has made materials for young readers particularly resistant to plots that question gender, sexuality or the institution of the family. Daye and Johnson were frustra...