Kind Like Marsha
Learning from LGBTQ+ Leaders
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Publisher Description
For fans of Little Leaders and Pride comes a nonfiction picture book celebrating 14 incredible LGBTQ+ change makers and forward thinkers throughout history.
Kind Like Marsha celebrates 14 amazing and inspirational LGBTQ+ people throughout history. Fan favorites like Harvey Milk, Sylvia Rivera, and Audre Lorde are joined by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, and more in this striking collection. With a focus on a positive personality attribute of each of the historical figures, readers will be encouraged to be brave like the Ugandan activist fighting for LGBTQ+ rights against all odds and to be kind like Marsha P. Johnson who took care of her trans community on the New York City streets.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
