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Glen's avatar

her needle is a planck length, her thread a superstring/little grandma darling is the smallest quantum thing

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Jendi's avatar

My favorite thing to do was to make up alternate, less-authoritarian endings to 1950s Little Golden Books when my son was too young to read the words. "And then Tootle went to San Francisco and made daisy chains with the other gay engines!"

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AH's avatar

My toddler niece is intrigued with this little grandma darling and her teacup bedroom.

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Alex (they/them)'s avatar

I can't wait to see your Seussian book about parents dealing with transgender children in stores soon!

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

listen we are the transsexuals here. the baby is going to have to find his own thing

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Alana Sheeren's avatar

I think you’ve got something there with little grandma darling! Ridiculous and delightful. It brings to mind some of the stories by my preschool teacher and wildly successful children’s book author, Robert Munsch.

My little just turned 18 and I have such deep affection for some of the books I got tired of in the moment (and of course the ones I always loved).

It’s quite amazing how parenting teaches us about ourselves and the beliefs we don’t know we hold until a bright spark of light in child form pushes the on button.

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chacal's avatar

Nostalgic nighttime reading at its best. Thank you! My all-time favorite is a heavy cloth book with a bright red background with a baby’s happy face on the cover called, “What Can Baby Do?” It now rests inside a cedar chest.

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