ABSTRACT
Children’s books about gender and sexuality can be useful in introducing children to a variety of identities and family structures. The chapter investigates LGBTQ+-themed books in four countries – Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia – where original and translated texts have been published but so far have received little attention in Western scholarship. The chapter shows the differences and similarities among these local book markets and socio-political discourses and demonstrates the transformative potential of books that in the Western context can be dismissed as homonormative, but elsewhere become symbols of queer resistance.
