The Lonely Book

Children''s Book Council: Spring 2024 Showcase: Reading List: Transformation

A warm and loving story about how anon-binary person comes to understand and accept themselves by an award-winning queer author.

Every morning, when Annie’s moms open up their bookshop, there’s a pile of books on the counter, waiting for the right reader to come and find them.

But one day, there’s a book nobody comes for. Nobodyever comes, and each day the book gets lonelier, and the bookshop becomes an unhappy place. Who can the bookbe for, and why don’t they come?

Eventually, the book finds the reader who needs it: Annie’s sister, Charlotte. Charlotte asks the family to call herCharlie now, and to use ‘they/them’ pronouns.

The bookshop cheers up. Customers start buying books again.