In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books,
Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language
children's picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+
identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed
to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the
1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge
in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational
practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts
in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller
considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the
production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children's
picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work
defines the field of LGBTQ+ children's picture books thoroughly,
yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further
research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture
Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze
the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children's picture books.
Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and
raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what
these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of
the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+
children's picture books are an essential world-making project and
seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant
historical archive that reflects material and representational
shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and
sexuality.
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