Book Trust: Discovering Gender Identity Books GIVEAWAY!

I’m way too excited about today’s post because it combines two of our big passions – books and gender identity! Today we’re talking books and children, helping them to understand gender issues and diversity, and I cannot wait to get stuck in!

Book Trust: Discovering Gender Identity Books #TimeToRead

‘New research from BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, finds that only just over half of children (51 per cent) aged between 8 – 11 actually speak with their parents when they are feeling stressed, sad or worried and a staggering 44% per cent say that they try to forget about the problem or don’t say anything and deal with it to themselves.’

– BookTrust research

When it comes to communication between children and their parents, books can certainly bridge the gap. Discussing difficult subjects and opening up conversations about sensitive topics can be carefully opened up through the use of books.

We’ve always had an abundance of books in the house for the children (and me!), and I like to think we started on the gender journey (albeit tentatively) when George started to grown his hair and experienced bullying for how he looked and how he chose to dress.

Fast-forward several years, and on New Year’s Eve 2018, Zoey came out as transgender. Our home already contained some interesting books based around gender, for example:

Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly

William’s Doll

Princess Pigsty

The Chosen Books

At this point, I’d ordered the following books, but they hadn’t yet arrived:

I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings

A House for Everyone by Jo Hirst

George by Alex Gino

Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? by Sarah Savage and Fox Fisher

I Am Fred: The Girl Who Wanted to Be a Boy by Nick Rolfe

Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (review)

Giveaway ends 30th September 2019. Terms and conditions apply, please see below for more information!

We’ll also be taking part in the BookTrust Twitter party on Thursday 19th September from 8-9pm, so please join us and don’t forget to use the hashtag #TimetoRead. There will be book tokens to be won, and they will be joined by developmental psychologist Emma Kenny who will be answering questions on the night as part of their Twitter party!

@BookTrust and use #TimeToRead

Thank you so much for taking the time to read our Book Trust: Discovering Gender Identity Books #TimeToRead blog post. We hope it helps when tackling more sensitive topics.

If you have any tips for reading about difficult subjects with children, please leave them in the comments below…