A Tale of Two Mommies

I wish I could have loved this book, as it is so important to have more and more books featuring queer families. Instead, I was deeply disappointed by this book.

This book is all about the hetero-normative way of thinking of what a ‘women' does and what a ‘man' does, and applies it to a same-sex family. Straight people need to feel reassured by putting things into a box, with questions like: “which mom teaches you how to bike, which mom watches movies with you, which mom puts a bandage on you when you're hurt...“

This is not how kids behave!! Kids simply don't care about those questions! They may ask one of those questions, but not continuously for 24 pages! They would have changed topic a long time ago and would have simply played at the beach, like kids play at the beach and parents watch over them.

It feels like the perpetuation of “who is the masculine one in a lesbian couple”, “who does what”, and it is hurting, and utterly wrong.

~also, stop cutting women's heads on illustrations.

Thank you NetGalley and VanitaBooks, LLC for providing me with a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Read and reviewed: 2018-10-29