{"id":1762,"date":"2015-03-22T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2015-03-22T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:33:00","slug":"glbt-classic-heather-has-two-mommies-revised-and-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1762","title":{"rendered":"GLBT classic “Heather Has Two Mommies” revised and updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

By John Mack Freeman<\/i><\/p>\n

Classic children’s book?Heather Has Two Mommies?<\/em>by Leslea Newman has been updated with new illustrations to make the book more contemporary and accessible to a new generation of young readers.<\/p>\n

Via the Associated Press:<\/a><\/p>\n

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A playful picture book about a little girl named Heather and her two happy mommies was a cultural and legal flashpoint 25 years ago, angering conservatives over the morality of same-sex parenting and landing libraries at the center of community battles over placement in the children’s stacks.<\/p>\n

Today, Heather – of “Heather Has Two Mommies” – has a lot more company in books for young kids about different kinds of families, but hers was out of print and seemed visually dated. That’s why creator Leslea Newman decided on a new version, updating the look of her watershed story with fresh illustrations from a new artist and tweaking the text to streamline.<\/p>\n

There’s one big change, but you have to squint to notice: Heather’s Mama Kate and Mama Jane wear little matching rings on their marriage fingers.<\/p>\n

“I don’t specifically say that they’re married but they are,” Newman explained from her home just outside Northampton, Massachusetts. “I don’t know where I could have smoothly inserted that into the text. That’s not what the story is about. The story is really about Heather.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By John Mack Freeman Classic children’s book?Heather Has Two Mommies?by Leslea Newman has been updated with new illustrations to make the book more contemporary and accessible to a new generation of young readers. Via the Associated Press: A playful picture book about a little girl named Heather and her two happy mommies was a cultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}