I wanted to share a new children’s book you will find inside our Christmas Gift Guide 2025: The ABC’s Of Queer History by Dr. Seema Yasmin Illustrated by Lucy Kirk. I received the book in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the products, you purchase.

I know some of my friends would look down on the book and not want to share it with there children but it’s no one’s place to judge others and everyone should be treated equally and this is why I choose to share this book with my friends and family as it’s a learing expeiance.

I love how the Author includes zero tolerance which everyone should stand for. There is joy, challenges, lessons and accomplishments in the story we learn about. The Author touches on E for eqality and M for marriage. Which my family is dealing with since Charlie became engaged to Mikayla, but his friend Bradley has become engaged to Ghost who identifies herself as they neither he nor she.

The ABC’s Of Queer History could be used as a History book as we learn about Stonewall. Along with trailblazers like Audre Lorde who we didn’t know but thanks to the story we learned about and can enhance our #Homeschool Lessons.

The Author reminds us Queer people have always existed. B is for belonging and we meet BAYARD Rustin someone I hadn’t heard of. Have you? I love how the Author included a song we can sing anytime anywhere and could be used in Music Classes including a Homeschool Music Class.

D is for dance and we learned about Josephine Baker. We learn about bisexual which is a #teachingmoment for parents. If your studying Congress and the Senate then you should introduce your children to Barabra Jordan, the first queer United States Congresswomen. Because G is for great.

K is for knowledge which we can share with those we love. Of couse L is for Love.The Author also metions transgender people another learning lesson for parents to go over with children. David liked hearing RUpaul a drag queen another #teachingmoment for parents mentioned in The ABC’s Of Queer History.

Charlie liked how the Author includied Lil Nas X. I liked learning about Charley Parkhurst a rancher because we all know I love COWBOYS. The Author also mentions x-gender which was a #teachingmoment for David and I. Charlie had to explain what x-gender and binary were to us and may be for you as well.

Be prepared and have a dictionary on hand when reading The ABC’s Of Queer History because there were quite a few words David and I didn’t know we had to look up which allowed us to teach and educate Charlie although being a teen he knew most of the words which David and I didn’t grow up with.

The ABC’s Of Queer History begins with the letter a and ends with the letter z and teaches us so much that I can’t wait to share The ABC’s of Queer History with my friends and family. In the back of the book the Author has included The ABCs of Queer History: Terms and Figures which make great lessons for our family to share with our family.

About the book:

A Through-the-Alphabet Celebration of Queer History in the US, from the Publisher of the New York Times Bestseller The ABCs of Black History
 
In a beautiful picture book brimming with P for Pride, writer and poet Seema Yasmin and illustrator Lucy Kirk celebrate all the joys and challenges of queer history in the United States through lively, rhyming verse and bright, colorful illustrations.

This is a book of people, of ideas, of accomplishments and events. It’s a book about Allies and Ancestors, about Belonging and Being accepted, about Hope, Knowledge, and Love. About historic moments like Stonewall, and how it changed the world. And all about Trailblazers, like Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, Harvey Milk, Barbara Jordan, George Takei, Elliot Page, and Sally Ride.

And ultimately, it’s a book to help kids learn a different kind of ABCs—not just words like apple, ball or cat, but rather the essence of what it means to be diverse, to be equitable, to be inclusive. That no one counts unless we all count, and how we must open our eyes and ears, minds and hearts, to hear everyone’s story and understand and celebrate their experience

by Seema Yasmin (Author), Lucy Kirk (Illustrator)  Format: Kindle Edition

Seema Yasmin

About the author

Dr. Seema Yasmin is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor, poet and author. A fiction fellow of the Kundiman and Tin House workshops, she is the author of five books including Muslim Women Are Everything, Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them, and the poetry collection, If God is a Virus. Yasmin trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto. She served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service and is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and visiting assistant professor of crisis management at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.