Books about LGBTQ younger generations living in rural settings helps to save lives. Characters, stories and landscape that young readers can connect with are always important. Gary Eldon Peter ...

Leslea Newman adds a third title to her series of animal-themed romps (Cats, Cats, Cats! and Dogs, Dogs, Dogs!) with Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!, illus. by Erika Oller. Here, to welcome the pigs, the ...

Just days after 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was killed in 1998, Newman (Heather Has Two Mommies) visited his school, the University of Wyoming, as the keynote speaker for its Gay Awareness Week.

The groundbreaking book for children with two mommies started with a conversation on a sidewalk. More than 25 years ago, Amy Jacobson was frustrated that no books existed to explain her family to her ...

Lesléa Newman’s “Heather Has Two Mommies,” the story of a child and her lesbian parents, Mama Jane and Mama Kate, was published in 1989. It was quickly deemed controversial and remained so for years.

Author Leslea Newman, of Holyoke, Mass., displays a copy of her book "Heather Has Two Mommies," in Holyoke, March 11, 2015. Newman, who wrote the original version of "Heather Has Two Mommies," 25 ...

When I was a little girl attending public school in northern New Jersey, I would get excited every time I saw a Jewish person represented in a story. Growing up on a steady diet of Dr. Seuss, “The ...

Jewish comfort food showed up in one of Lesléa Newman’s first children’s books, “Matzo Ball Moon.” It has been making appearances in her work ever since. “[Food is] part of our every holiday, every ...

Leslea Newman, author of “Heather has Two Mommies” and many Jewish titles, was recognized with a Sydney Taylor Book Award for her body of work. (JTA) — A picture book about the founder of the National ...