When she’s not writing about campus, she’s trying to lose her Terrier card so BU will give her a new one. Fun fact: she’s still using her Terrier card from 2013. These days, she covers campus happenings, current events, and more for BU Today. After earning a BS in journalism, she spent four years at Boston magazine writing, copyediting, and managing production for all publications. See my database for other picture books about LGBTQ history and LGBTQ biographies.Is a Pacific Northwest native and a BU alum (COM’16). Prager skillfully avoids that problem by focusing on the key reason for introducing these important figures to children: the lessons they offer on how to be ourselves and make a difference in the world.

They can get bogged down in details that may seem tedious or irrelevant to youngsters. Cheryl Thuesday’s vibrant, dynamic illustrations bring them all to life.īiographies for young children sometimes struggle to balance accuracy with age-appropriate simplicity. Some made their marks in LGBTQ advocacy, while others had impact in the arts, sciences, and others areas. The subjects span the globe and range from historical to contemporary. Readers could also be “unifying” like Harvey Milk “expressive” like Sappho “outspoken” like gun-control advocate X González “brave” like Ugandan LGBTQ activist Frank Mugisha, and more. Johnson was an activist who took care of everyone in her community in New York City.” She then gives a short quote from each person: for Johnson, it is her dictum to “Pay it no mind.”

“You can be kind like Marsha,” she writes. Instead of stressing the biographical details of the subjects’ lives, Prager here offers a simple, single sentence about who each person was/is and encourages young people to emulate the positive qualities they embody. Sarah Prager may be best known for her excellent LGBTQ collective biographies for middle graders and young adults, but in Kind Like Marsha: Learning from LGBTQ+ Leaders (Running Press), she successfully turns her talents to the picture book set. A new picture book has the perfect age-appropriate approach for introducing younger readers to LGBTQ+ leaders.

Kind Like Marsha by Sarah Prager