B.J. Epstein is a senior lecturer in literature and public engagement at the University of East Anglia. She is also a writer, editor, and Swedish-to-English translator.

Elizabeth L. Chapman teaches education studies at Sheffield Hallam University and works for Sheffield libraries and as a freelance translator. Her research interests focus on LGBTQ+ fiction for children and young people.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction, B. J. Epstein and Elizabeth L. Chapman; Chapter One - BRAZIL Self- Help and Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Themes in Contemporary Brazilian Young Adult Literature, Rosa Maria Hessel Silveira, Luiz Felipe Zago and Daniela Ripoll; Chapter Two - FRANCE We're Not Here and We're Not Queer: Bisexual Erasure and Stereotyping in French Young Adult Fiction, Elizabeth L. Chapman; Chapter Three - GERMANY/ AUSTRIA Stuck in the Binary: Heteronormativity and the Binary Conception of Gender in German- Language Trans YA, Katrin Waldhart; Chapter Four - GREENLAND Homo Sapienne: A Mirror of Modern Greenlandic Life, Mette Laustsen; Chapter Five - INDIA Out of the Closet? Exploring the Infoscape of LGBTQ+ Fiction For/ About Youth in India, Bharat Mehra and Chris Barrett; Chapter Six - INDIGENOUS WRITING Un-settling Gender and Sexuality: Indigenous LGBTQ+/ Two- Spirit Literature for Young People, Thaddeus Andracki; Chapter Seven - ITALY LGBTQ Families and Picturebooks: New Perspectives in Italian Children's Literature, Dalila Forni; Chapter Eight - MULTINATIONAL Heather Has a Donor: 30 Years of International Lesbian- Themed Children's Picture Books about Donor Insemination, 1989- 2019, Patricia Sarles; Chapter Nine - MULTINATIONAL Morals, Society and Distribution: LGBTQ+ Literature for Young Readers in the Arab World, Anonymous; Chapter Ten - MULTINATIONAL Sameness and Diff erence in Visual Representations of Same-Sex Couples in International Children's Picture Books, Jamie Campbell Naidoo and Mercedes Zabawa; Chapter Eleven - THE PHILIPPINES Of Fabulous Flowers and Powers: Queer Narratives of/ for the Filipino Child in Philippine Contemporary Children's Literature, Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno; Chapter Twelve - SLOVENIA Between Literature, Ideology and Pedagogy: LGBTQ+ Fiction for Children and Young Adults in Slovenia, Andrej Zavrl; Chapter Thirteen - SOUTH KOREA Boys Who Wear Dresses: Queer Narrative Strategies in Korean Children's Literature, Anton Hur; Chapter Fourteen - SPAIN Stories out of the Closet: LGBTQ+ Children's Picturebooks in Spain, Bernat Cormand; Chapter Fifteen - SWEDEN 'I'm Sure This Whole Boy Thing is Just a Phase': Transgender Narratives in Contemporary Swedish Children's and Young Adult Literature, Åsa Warnqvist; Chapter Sixteen - SWEDEN Becoming Versus Being: Nature, Nurture and Stereotypes in Swedish LGB Young Adult Novels, B. J. Epstein; List of Primary Texts; Index.