Mama's Saris
7 best books like Mama's Saris (Pooja Makhijani): Owl Moon, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, Stella Brings the Family, Fly High, Fly Low, Updraft, Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0399214577 |
Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird.
But there is no answer.
Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling...
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079413 |
I've read a few reviews of this and a lot seem to bash Feinberg for not presenting a thoroughly academic history of transgender identity. I do think this kind of critique misses the point: quite spectacularly.
It's definitely true that if you want a meticulous, detailed, jargony drudge through...
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary
| Author | Joan Nestle |
| ISBN | 1555837301 |
Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three...
| Author | Miriam B. Schiffer |
| ISBN | 1452111901 |
Stella's class is having a Mother's Day celebration, but what's a girl with two daddies to do? It's not that she doesn't have someone who helps her with her homework, or tucks her in at night. Stella has her Papa and Daddy who take care of her, and a whole gaggle of other loved ones who make her feel special...
| Author | Don Freeman |
| ISBN | 0142408174 |
Fly High, Fly Low, a Caldecott Honor book, tells the story of two San Francisco birds who hatch some eggs in a very unconventional place--the letter "B" in the sign on top of the Bay Hotel. But what happens when the sign is taken down? Told with Freeman's typical humor and simplicity, the book features breathtaking...
In a city of living bone rising high above the clouds, where danger hides in the wind and the ground is lost to legend, a young woman must expose a dangerous secret to save everyone she loves.
Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence, betrayal and courage.
Kirit Densira cannot...
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 1580893449 |
This biography of American composer, pianist, and conductor Leonard Bernstein takes readers from his childhood in Boston to his spectacular professional conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Illustrated with archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection...
