'The Sky Didn't Fall or Anything': A Mother's Response to Lesbian- and Gay-Inclusive Picturebooks in Elementary Schools in the United States

This article focuses on components from a larger qualitative study in which parents responded to LG picturebooks and their potential use in elementary classrooms. Crawley analyzes and shares the responses of one mother whose daughter attends a public elementary school in the US Southeast. Crawley de...

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Published in:Bookbird 2020, Vol.58 (1), p.29-44
Main Author: Crawley, Stephen Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Book selection
Children & youth
Classrooms
COVID-19
Elementary education
Elementary schools
Families & family life
Gays & lesbians
Parents & parenting
Picture books
Preschool education
Qualitative research
Reading
Teachers
Teaching
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Summary:This article focuses on components from a larger qualitative study in which parents responded to LG picturebooks and their potential use in elementary classrooms. Crawley analyzes and shares the responses of one mother whose daughter attends a public elementary school in the US Southeast. Crawley demonstrates how, over time, she moved from endorsing the books' availability and use in elementary classrooms, to considering schools' bookselection processes, to self-initiating action by reading one of the LG picturebooks in her daughter's class.
ISSN:0006-7377
1918-6983
1918-6983
DOI:10.1353/bkb.2020.0002