Children’s books are going political, writes Joe Pinsker in The Atlantic. There seem to be more left-wing than right-wing parents, he notes. Regnery’s “Marlon Bundo’s A Day in the Life of the Vice President, by Mike Pence’s daughter Charlotte and told from the perspective of the family’s pet rabbit—was far outsold by a parody of the book overseen by John Oliver’s HBO show that imagined the titular bunny to be gay.”

This year has seen the release of picture books with titles such as Dreamers and W Is for Welcome: A Celebration of America’s Diversity. These are the newest additions to a slate of progressive-minded mid-2010s children’s books such as A Is for Activist (which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies), Stepping Stones (about the journey of a Syrian refugee family, written in English and Arabic), and One of a Kind, Like Me/Único Como Yo (about a boy who wants to dress up as a princess for a school parade). Political biographies for young children are not a novelty, but lately many of them have had a feminist bent, including picture books about Elizabeth Warren, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (wife of Alexander).

When I was a kid, I liked fantasy, adventure and history. I read for enjoyment, not self-improvement.

My daughter read many, many books in which the main character was dyslexic, her new friend at school was homeless or her sibling was dying of cancer, addicted, missing, etc. I found these book dreary.