Category: books
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Liesl Shurtliff writes Li’l Red into her fractured fairy tales
Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved to read Grimm’s Fairy Tales and play in the woods. This girl grew up to be a best-selling author who loved to tell variations on classic fairy tales.
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Color them proud for Pride: Butch Lesbians of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s Coloring Book
The Butch Lesbians of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s Coloring Book proved so popular a second edition is due just two months after the first print run. The sequel to The Butch Lesbians of the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s Coloring Book contains 40 pages to color, as well as profiles by editors Jon Macy and Avery Cassell of…
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Little LGBT lessons: A history and activity book for kids
A new LGBT history from Chicago Review Press is kid-friendly and mom-approved — make that two moms. Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights is stocked with stories, quotes, photographs and nearly two dozen activities. LGBT parents will be over-the-rainbow with the book by Jerome Pohlen, a former elementary school…
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Island of seduction
The way a kid feels that day before the last day of school before summer vacation? That’s the way Fire Island fans feel before the long Memorial Day weekend. The way a kid feels that day before the first day of the new school year? That’s the way Fire Island fans feel about Labor Day…
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Meanwhile in Mecca: an illustrated story of San Francisco
The place “has always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For every walk of life.” Wendy MacNaughton is referring to the San Francisco Public Library, maybe not a stop on every vacationer’s itinerary, but the population of the library “mirrors the population…