written and illus. by Angela Bermudez
Language: English
CreateSpace, 2014.
26 p. : coll. ; cm.
ISBN: 1502907585 ; 9781502907585
Summary: The protagonists are an adopted princess from Sierra Leone, a princess who is a daughter of a single mother by choice, a princess whose lesbian mothers come from Iran and Mexico, and a transgender prince. Angela Bermudez, a 6 year old Latina New Yorker, self-published a radically different book to help other children like her see themselves in children's books. With her mom's help, Angela wrote this book, mostly during cross town bus and subway rides to and from school or to theater rehearsals. Angela combined phonetically complicated names, true and imaginary facts, with stories from her own life. She also borrowed stories from close friends and chosen family, who are mostly people of color, LGBT and undocumented immigrants living in New York City. Angela also drew all the illustrations in the book.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
- Immigration -- Juvenile fiction
- Gender identity -- Juvenile fiction
- Transgenderism -- Juvenile fiction
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