{"id":1539244,"date":"2022-07-05T08:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539244"},"modified":"2022-07-05T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:05:33","slug":"childrens-library-association-pushes-gender-confusion-on-kids-with-pro-lgbt-summer-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/childrens-library-association-pushes-gender-confusion-on-kids-with-pro-lgbt-summer-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Library Association Pushes Gender Confusion On Kids With Pro-LGBT Summer Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchildrens-library-association-pushes-gender-confusion-on-kids-with-pro-lgbt-summer-reading-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/29686116293_01aed38f59_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is pushing multiple LGBT recommendations in its 2022 Notable Children\u2019s Books and Summer Reading Lists. Some of these books include a simple picture of a gay union, while other suggestions are fully centered around transgenderism, but in each case, these recommendations are meant to normalize and promote LGBT values and lifestyles to children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the ALSC adding these books to the reading list, the association communicates that they\u2019re of \u201cespecially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry, and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children\u2019s interests in exemplary ways.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, children from preschool to kindergarten are encouraged to read<em> <\/em>\u201cThe Pronoun Book\u201d by Chris Ayala-Kronos to complete the summer reading list. As kids just begin to learn how to read, they can also get a head start on trans pronoun propaganda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this book, young readers are taught that they can\u2019t know what people want to be called. A boy may want to be called a \u201cshe\u201d instead of he. A girl may desire to use plural pronouns such as they\/them or a \u201cneopronoun\u201d such as co, ey, per, or xe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMilo Imagines the World\u201d by Matt de la Pe\u00f1a is another \u201cnotable\u201d children\u2019s book on the library association\u2019s list, and while the book is not LGBT-centered, it slips in a picture of a same-sex wedding.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows a young boy named Milo and his sister riding the train to see their mom. While on the crowded train, Milo looks at the faces around him. Notebook and pen in hand, he imagines and draws the lives of the people he sees.<\/p>\n<p>He imagines a whiskered man wearing a green hat living in a tall apartment building with his cats and parakeets. He imagines one man as a groom in a tuxedo and a fancy wedding ceremony for a woman who wears a wedding dress, but then Milo muses that there might be more than meets the eye and reimagines their lives.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, the whiskered man sits at a table with his family instead of just pets. He now imagines that the woman in the wedding dress is marrying a red-headed woman in another wedding dress.<\/p>\n<p>The recommended \u201cOver the Shop\u201d picture book by JonArno Lawson is a wordless book, but the symbols and pictures highlighting LGBT values are clear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA dedication to trans activists and some characters who are nonbinary in dress and clothing make a simple message of love and acceptance resonate subtly,\u201d a school library journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/653702\/over-the-shop-by-jonarno-lawson-illustrated-by-qin-leng\/\">commented<\/a>. Along with this, rainbows appear in random places such as a belt, hat, or on the flag outside the shop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For middle-schoolers, ALSC recommends \u201cHow to Become a Planet\u201d by Nicole Melleby. The book was labeled one of The Nerd Daily\u2019s \u201cAnticipated Queer Book Releases You Can\u2019t Miss in 2021\u201d and made Lambda Literary\u2019s list of \u201cMay\u2019s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Literature.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs always, Melleby naturally integrates her queer protagonist\u2019s discovery of her sexuality into a larger story,\u201d The Horn Book Magazine commented on Amazon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story follows a girl named Pluto struggling with depression. Throughout the story, Pluto \u201clearns\u201d she has a crush on a fellow girl who \u201clearns\u201d she identifies as a boy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe definition changed, but Pluto was exactly the same as it was, and still is, as when I learned about it back in middle school. All of its properties are still exactly the same,\u201d Nicole Melleby said in an interview with Eliot Schrefer on <a href=\"https:\/\/lgbtqreads.com\/tag\/how-to-become-a-planet\/\">LGBTQ Reads<\/a>. \u201cGetting a depression diagnosis for Pluto-the-person is just like Pluto-the-planet getting a new definition. It doesn\u2019t change who she is; if anything, it gives her a <em>clearer understanding<\/em> of who she is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is pushing multiple LGBT recommendations in its 2022 Notable Children\u2019s Books and Summer Reading Lists. 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