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Hampshire College

An Interview with Hampshire College

Jacob standing in front of the Supreme Court which has signs for a boy's and a girl's entrance.

Jacob’s Room to Choose Heads to the US Supreme Court!
On the Media

On The Media[39:36] Host Brooke Gladstone interviews Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, whose children’s picture book, And Tango Makes Three, is among the long list of banned titles across the country. They talk about Jacob’s Missing Book!

Sarah & Ian Hoffman Discuss the Impact of Book Bans with Golden State Readers

Golden State ReadersSarah & Ian talk to Golden State Readers about being banned authors, how book bans impact kids and society

Pride and Less Prejudice

Pride and Less PrejudiceRead the interview with Sarah & Ian on book banning and writing about book bans for kids.

Denton ISD Board of Trustees votes to keep children’s books with gender non-conforming characters in school library

North Texas Daily

KSQD Community Radio “What Does Representation Mean to Kids?”

KSQD Community Radio

Parents Write Children’s Book Series on Raising their Gender Non-Conforming Son

ABC 10Meet the parents who’ve written a kids book series on their gender non-conforming son with the goal of encouraging readers to avoid gender binary assumptions. View the video.

Authors of “Jacob’s New Dress” Speak about Gender Non-conforming Youth

KDNK Community Radio

Pride and Less Prejudice

Pride and Less PrejudiceRead the interview with Sarah & Ian on raising gender-diverse kids and diverse representation.

ALA List of Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books

American Library AssociationJacob’s New Dress is #72 on the ALA List of Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books!

The Horn Book
Matthew Winner/The Children’s Book Podcast

The Children's Book PodcastInterview #512: Sarah and Ian Hoffman, 6/7/2019

American Psychological Association: An Interview with Jacob
School District Removes Book About a Boy in a Dress From Curriculum

Teen Vogue

North Carolina School System Pulls Book About a Boy in a Dress

The New York Times

NC legislators’ wrath prods CMS to pull lesson about a boy in a dress

The Charlotte Observer

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Jacob's Missing Book

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Jacob's School Play: Starring He, She & They!

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Jacob's Room to Choose

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Jacob's New Dress

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Testimonials

“Jacob’s New Dress invites all of us to learn with compassion and humor…with no sugar-coating or proselytizing, Sarah Hoffman and Ian Hoffman have done what no other authors have been able to do—tell the heartwarming and uplifting real story of a little boy who wants to wear his dresses—what it’s like for him, for his mother and his father, for his teacher, and for all the children around him. Jacob’s New Dress is a brilliant and beautifully illustrated book and a must-read for all of us.”

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., Director of Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF and author of "Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender Non-nonconforming Children" March 9, 2014

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Praise for our books

“So many, many people need to read this book. Kids adults, politicians, administrators—there is not one person in this world that doesn’t need to digest and ponder the less of this sweet, simple, and very necessary (unfortunately) book.”

Kiss the Book April 3, 2019

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