Possible kids book to avoid

[Goneback2school]

I was in a bookshop today looking for books for 8yo DS's Christmas Stocking and the staff member recommended The StrangeWorlds Travel Agency series because of how inclusive it is. The secondary character Jonothan wears a chest binder and in the second book it alludes to Jonothan being gay. The series is aimed at 9 to 11 year olds.

Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins by Rachel Greener. Much lauded by kids bookstagrammers and utterly depressing, with no use of the word woman in birth descriptions, 'people with penises' etc. This was all over my Instagram a few months ago with people just fawning over it. Makes me want to cry!

I was looking for books for my 3yo neighbour recently and frankly, you never saw so much stuff written sideways in all your life.

It's the sort of thing you can imagine people reading, congratulating themselves on their inclusivity with every golden and improving word, while their infant audience is thinking the child equivalent of WTAF? There was one I could tell immediately was supposed to be teaching me all sorts of lovely things, but it was so badly written I couldn't actually work out what it was until the end.

Own son had a notable addiction to the more gory bits of the Beatrix Potter oeuvre. Samuel Whiskers I gather is not not quite the thing these days.

Whilst there may be some that are ok, I would personally be cautious of any on this list:

www.stonewall.org.uk/education-resources/lgbtq-inclusive-books-children-and-young-people

[quote Leafstamp]Whilst there may be some that are ok, I would personally be cautious of any on this list:

www.stonewall.org.uk/education-resources/lgbtq-inclusive-books-children-and-young-people[/quote]
Upon closer inspection, there are some perfectly good books on that list. But I’m sure people will understand my hesitancy to take Stonewall’s word on anything!

A friend told me her ds brought home a book called 'Jack of Hearts' from school last year.

It's basically an anal sex manual dressed up as a novel. Nothing about consent; stuff in there about pedophlic anal rape as a fantasy; a scene featuring a double ended dildo used anally; a problem page with a girl saying her BF wanted to do anal, should she and being told just use loads of lube and relax. Horrible.

She looked it up and there are reviews recommending it for 12+ It's Queer Theory in novel form. I think she complained and the school were actually quite shocked themselves. Her DS is 12

Oh, we started reading that book, OP, but the kids weren't into it at all. Didn't even get as far as any bits with binders in them! Just quite badly written.