A story about death and grief that is tender, but honest, brutal, but silly, sparse, and yet, so full. The art is stark in its subtlety, focusing in on the duck (who says everything with her eyes), and death (with a tulip behind his back). Read this to your kids, or to your friends, or to yourself-- remember that taking care of and having fun with each other is life, and that, in the end, death is life too.

WOAH. Imagination gone wild. Dark, heartfelt, strange and so well done. LOVED.

oh man, what lesbian hasn‘t fallen hard for a laura dean?!? funny, awkward, messy and so honest. loved.

Had a wonderful time reading all the Heartstoppers! The first 2 cover the show and were ADORABLE— but the 3rd and 4th were the stars for me! I thought Oseman did an amazing job continuing to build Charlie and Nick‘s relationship with each other AND with their friends and families. I was also so impressed with the way mental health was tackled in the latter 2. Highly recommended the whole series 🥰

LOVED this addition to the TJRCU (Taylor Jenkins Reid Cinematic Universe). Not my favorite of hers, but still so fun, rewarding and full of love.

maybe it‘s the covid brain, but i‘m not sure i loved this as much as everybody else did. would still recommend.

The main character in this is figuring out her gender identity and thinking she might be nonbinary. So so glad this book exists for kids. The skating though? Not for me. And there was a lot of skating, lol.

A queer, trans Peter Pan sequel of sorts. Totally obsessed.

I came in with high expectations (LaCour is one of my favorite authors) and those expectations were blown away. I‘m not sure I have words for how much I loved this. The prose is more bare, more raw, more simple than some of LaCour‘s other work but somehow, still, rich and full and so very lovely. She creates characters and dynamics and journeys and trauma so familiar and still so unique. A love story you root for before they even know each other.

This is everything my gay, recovering John Green stan and current Casey McQuiston stan heart could ask for. This is Paper Towns, but make it queer. Paper Towns, but make it the scary, shimmering, lonely reality of being a teenager in Alabama. Add in the scary, shimmering, warm reality of realizing actually, you are not as alone as you once thought. Add in queer rebellion and found family and mamas and high strung academic enemies to lovers. Loved

Fantastic read. Weird and tense— at times so fully lacking in empathy and, at the end, drowning in it. The fucking ending.

Holy shit I loved this!!!!!!! Fast and fun, but so full of love and tradition and growth. A must read.

“It‘s so complicated to be a human” // grief and love and found family and goddesses and a silly, brave, dog.

“this broken world isn‘t going to fix itself” // a lovely tale about the importance of community and taking care of one another.

Oh my god YES. Sexy and funny and so, so lovely. A perfect romcom filled with swooning and growing and learning and of course, a lot of loving.

Literally so obsessed with this. So cute and funny and lovely. They say you have to love yourself first, but sometimes you learn to love yourself by loving others.

The writing wasn‘t anything special (also present tense? what‘s up with that?) and some of the side characters had so much potential but ended up feeling a little one note. That being said, I had a lot of fun with this (especially trying to figure out what was going on with this love octagon). A sweet, easy YA read but I think it would make a better TV show, honestly.

I love Grace and her weird, lonely, ugly, glimmering, love you so much it hurts, found family. Grace and her expectations, familiar and choking. Grace and her wife, hunting monsters. Grace and forgiveness. Grace, favored by the sun and in love with the stars. Grace learning that The Best and happiness are not antonyms. Grace and her loneliness, never alone though. Lonely monsters, finding each other, holding on tight.

I‘ve been reading this out loud to my partner at night and it‘s been so lovely to curl up into this familiar world, so blunt and warm, funny and comforting. These stories and these boys stand the test of time because they speak to our most basic wants and needs: love and companionship, adventure that is found in everyday happenings, and a whole lot of sleep.

I LOVE Quentin Blake‘s illustrations— but the actual retellings fell really flat for me. I do think it takes a very strong writer to write folktales in a way that feels both fresh and true to the original. I think the magic of folktales can disappear when that oral aspect is lost, and you have to do a lot of work to reignite that magic in a different way. That just wasn‘t done here for me. I found myself pretty bored.

loved this series so much. so much power in choosing who you are, in choosing to forgive (yourself and others), in choosing your family.

how lovely to read something that believes so fiercely in forgiveness, in growth, in seeing the best in others. magical and warm. loving this series.

so so lovely. eerie and comforting and magical— because of the magic, yes, and because of the friendship and the family and the persistent feeling in your gut that tells your you‘re more than the box they‘ve stuffed you in.

woodson knows the power of writing from a child‘s perspective. harsh and naive at the same time.

Just like the author, I identify as genderqueer & yet, there‘s very little in this book I directly related to (except a love of 1D & fanfic!)— and that‘s exactly why I adored it. The range of queer & trans experience is so rad. It wasn‘t my experience but it was a gorgeous one. All of us have carried weight. Of confusion & play & euphoria & pain. The way that manifests looks vastly different for all of us, but we still understand one another

Art that reminds you that connection is grand in it‘s smallness, that it is all encompassing, that all our things hold all sorts of meaning, that it‘s okay to play with what feels so heavy.

My heart is so full. How fun, how lovely, how queer. I can‘t stop smiling.

Jason Reynolds always kills it. He makes the settings and characters in everyday life feel so vivid and magical, while still honest and genuine. He invites us into spaces warm and confusing and hopeful. He‘s an adult who remembers, so clearly, the power and the humor and the love in a child‘s perspective. Where apartment buildings can be castles and building supers can be superheroes. This was such a joy to read.

This d¥ke loves f@gs. Hopeful and magical and honest. Solidarity 4ever.

Abolition is the only way forward.

Phoebe Wahl is one of my favorite artists & writers. Everything she creates is so full of love & weirdness & whimsy. I loved Little Witch Hazel with her hairy legs & her odd neighbors & her grumpy attitude & her big, caring heart. I loved reluctantly, lazy summer days & spooky fall evenings. I loved full circle moments of care in the spring & winter. This is so dear & lovely. Grown ups should read pictures books forever.