"The sky didn't fall or anything": A mother's response to lesbian- And gay-inclusive picturebooks in elementary schools in the United States

Abstract

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.