Amy Asks a Question...: Grandma - What's a Lesbian?

by Jeanne Arnold

Young Amy returns home upset after some boys at school teased her and other little girls for hugging each other, calling them "lesbians." Amy doesn't understand what that means is or why it's supposed to be so insulting. Enter Grandma Bonnie, who has been in a lesbian relationship for more than twenty years, and explains to her granddaughter about gay pride and what it means to be a lesbian.

Genres: Picture Books

47 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Bella]

It’s one of those books that is too long to be a proper children’s book, too short to be a young adult book. It drags in places and there are real walls of text that are a little tough to get through. The emotions are kind of one-note, and I kept confusing the characters for each other. The drawings are nice though. There is also a very women-exclusive brand of lesbianism in this book that now feels trans-exclusive and too narrow. I don’t know if Grandma Bonnie and Grandma Jo would be trans-exclusionary radical feminists, but that’s sort of the opinion I got and it made it hard for me to enjoy the book.