Uncle Bobby’s Wedding

Featured on Bank Street’s Best Books of the Year list in 2021 (ages 5-9)!

A joyous, heartwarming, sweet-and essential-update. Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW Those we love, [Soto] and Brannen show, needn’t change just because they love someone else, too-there’s plenty of room in the human heart. Publishers Weekly

A large-hearted affirmation of society’s newest kind of wedding. Booklist

Valiant, valid, validating, valuable. Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked

With warm, richly colored, and expressive illustrations by Lucia Soto, the book, published in partnership with GLAAD, serves as a gentle and welcome celebration of the different shapes love and family can take. Boston Globe

Chloe’s favorite uncle is getting married, and she’s not happy about it. But after a magical day with Uncle Bobby and his boyfriend, Jamie, Chloe realizes she’s not losing an uncle, but gaining one. Selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best picture books of 2020 and by the American Library Association as a 2021 Rainbow Book List title, celebrate family with this gorgeous picture book.

When Chloe’s favorite uncle announces that he’s getting married, everyone is excited. Everyone except Chloe, that is. What if Uncle Bobby no longer has time for picnics, swimming, or flying kites? Chloe just wants to keep having fun with her favorite uncle, but she’s afraid everything is going to change. Can Uncle Bobby and his boyfriend Jamie show Chloe that, when it comes to family, the more the merrier? In this inspiring, love-filled story, Chloe learns just what family means.

Produced in coordination with GLAAD, this adorable picture book is a positive example of same-sex marriage and a celebration of family.