Children’s books
In recent years the gay parent has become a familiar feature in children’s fiction – and now the gay grandparent is gradually becoming part of the landscape too. Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate (Andersen, 32pp, £12.99) is one such example, telling the uplifting story of a little girl who helps her grandfather embrace life again
following the death (Thames & Hudson, 32pp, £9.99) by Piret Raud depicts the sea as a conscientious but exhausted mother to her huge brood of mischievous fish. (‘The sea taught all her fish how to read … And she talked at length about how good it was for them to be educated fish.’) When Mother Sea reaches the end of her tether, and goes away without them, the fish must rethink their ways.