Goblinheart by brett axel7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape they can imagine. Plot Summary: In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a hill. ![]() It’s important to balance books where acceptance is easy and those that are hard won, because we want to normalize being trans while also celebrating the resilience and struggle of trans kids.įor each book, I link the Amazon plot summary, a youtube read-aloud if available, and write a mini-analysis. Many books fell into the instant-accept trope where the kid comes out and is accepted at once (8). The majority of these books had supportive parents or family members (12). There were 6 books with non-human characters, some of which used allegories to explain a gender transition. ![]() None of these stories featured “any child” protagonists or stories that were just a kid doing kid things, rather they were split between unquestioned, my beautiful life stories (4) and stories of how other kids or adults questioned the gender practices of the protagonist (16). I lumped these two types of stories together because there weren’t enough gender queer books to count separately (14 trans books, 6 gender queer books). ![]()
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