Kind Like Marsha: Learning from LGBTQ+ Leaders

Through single-line biographies that draw positive characteristics from real-life individuals’ actions, Prager introduces 14 LGBTQ figures—some well known and some less so—with “identities as diverse as the rainbow.” Each receiving a full spread, the American-leaning grouping includes figures such as Marsha P. Johnson, Frida Kahlo, Harvey Milk, Frank Mugisha, and Sylvia Rivera. Alongside Thuesday’s boldly hued, textural art, which provides contextualizing details, each figure is introduced with a succinct biographical line, a “you can be” trait, and a quotation. Readers are invited to be “THOUGHTFUL” like Audre Lorde, described as an author who “turned her thoughts about justice into writing that made others change their minds.” Though it’s unclear how the collection is organized—X González appears between Sappho and Leonardo da Vinci—the assemblage offers a largely visual introduction to queer people and progressive values. An author’s note concludes. Ages 4–8. (Aug.)