“Young children all over the world will soon be able to learn about being transgender,” said another. “My heart might burst, this is so lovely,” one person shared on Twitter. The story has since gone global, with people sharing their love and appreciation for the book on social media. It’s a book about difference and about accepting difference, and I was so proud of her when I saw it, and its illustration is beautiful, and the story is really appealing.” “It was wonderful, such a wonderful thing and such a beautiful, positive book. More: Popular kid’s books that are actually terrible “I just cried happy tears,” Tina said during her Four Corners interview. Walton’s transgender mum, Tina, has also shared her overwhelming joy following the book being published. Raising more than $20,000, Walton and illustrator Dougal MacPherson self-published the book through crowdfunding website Kickstarter. “Where someone would say, ‘This is who I am,’ and the characters around them would say, ‘Great, no worries, let’s go and play.'” So we wanted something really simple and sweet,” Walton told ABC’s Four Corners. “We wanted to find books that had transgender characters, and there are some out there, but none that are really aimed at the kind of kind of age range.
The book is called Introducing Teddy and is a gentle look at people’s differences and embracing diversity.
More: 5 Excellent LGBT children’s books any family can enjoy And that’s exactly what she did after her father came out as a transgender woman, Tina. The former school teacher from Melbourne then decided that if she couldn’t find it, she’d have to write it.
But for new mum Jessica Walton, she couldn’t seem to find a children’s book that related to her family and dealt with the issues she wanted to communicate to her son.
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