We Are Your Children

A truly astonishing and accomplished work. * Jake Hope, Youth Libraries Group *Far too recently, legislation explicitly forbade teaching that LGBTQ+ lives and relationships were valid or valued. We Are Your Children does the still urgently important work of sharing our communities’ histories with young people in ways that are accessible and inclusive. It combines a sensitive retelling of the challenges LGBTQ+ people faced in the past with histories of possibility, resistance and joy that offer hope for the future. * Justin Bengry, PHD, founder of the world’s first MA in Queer History *We Are Your Children is an homage to the queer communities, individuals and organisations that resisted – and continue to resist – our assigned place in the world. It pulls together different liberatory acts – big and small, individual and collective – where queer folks resisted. Roberts’ work makes these figures legible to those of us thirsty to learn more about the movements that have built today’s foundations. * Paula Akpan, journalist, historian and author of When We Ruled *

David Roberts is a hugely talented and versatile artist and author. David began his career in fashion illustration, and his sharp eye for form and composition is showcased beautifully in his books with Andrea Beaty, which include Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect. His work ranges from feisty retellings of fairy tales created in collaboration with his sister, Lyn (Little Red, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel), to his brilliantly funny books with Julia Donaldson such as Tyrannosaurus Drip, The Troll and The Cook and the King. In 2006 he won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award for his line drawings in Mouse Noses On Toast, and Little Red was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. David’s sense of humour shines through in all his work, but especially his illustrations for The Bolds series by Julian Clary and the madcap Dirty Bertie books. Suffragette: The Battle for Equality was David’s first self-authored book and is an exquisitely illustrated history of the women’s suffrage movement, which has been a passion of David’s since his school days.