Books With Stories About Gentle & Kind Male-Identified Kids

Post date: 2019-01-12 04:26:06
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We are looking for chapter books or story books that have protagonists or prominent characters who are male-identified (boys or men) who are gentle and kind. We are struggling to find these narratives, and so often read stories with female-identified characters ("feminist girl books.")

We read a lot of books out loud in our home. Currently graphic novels and chapter books are a huge hit. We just finished the Zoey and Sassafras series and loved it because it was feminist, about kindness, there were not side plots of stories that were fat shaming, sexist, homophobic, etc. We have read and own all of the Flamingo Rampant books, and even those we sometimes find to be a bit too binary, ironically. We have struggled to find books with "boy" characters who are not into fights, being tough, etc. We loved The Sandwich Thief and even that had some language that we didn't like (I.e. "Big Bobby" as a way to describe a kid who is larger and eats a lot). For the queer/trans* focused books, a lot of them are in the genre of "you're different, people are not great to you, but they come around by the end/you feel good about yourself at the end." Are there books with gentle boys/men who just happen to be and the focus is not on that? Most books we love that carry the strength and kindness we like seem to be about feminist girls. Sara Varon's New Shoes was pretty great but didn't involve human characters. Thank you.
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