Are You a Friend of Dorothy?

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2025★ “Straightforwardly detailing how LGBTQ+ people have long found each other via verbal and visual cues, this approachable, engaging work is a primer on both queer history and how ‘learning about the ways we survived in the past could help people in the future.’” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW★ “A venturesome, refreshingly frank reading for elementary-level audiences.” – Booklist, STARRED REVIEW“A historical look at the importance of community, now more relevant than ever.” – Kirkus Reviews“Using colorful imagery, straightforward, honest language, and an accessible storytelling structure, this book makes history feel more immediate and tangible to children. Each page depicts people of varying backgrounds as they interact with one another in both joyful and frightening situations, highlighting the fact that even in the worst of times, people are able to come together and find opportunities to love being themselves.” – School Library Journal

Kyle Lukoff writes books for kids and other people. Before becoming a full-time writer, Kyle worked at five bookstores, in four libraries, for three schools, as two genders, through one intersection: people and books.

Levi Hastings is the illustrator of Mayor Pete: The Story of Pete Buttigieg by Rob Sanders, Are You a Friend of Dorothy? by Kyle Lukoff, and The Spirit of Springer by Amanda Abler, about which The New York Times raved, “This beautiful book tells a suspenseful, heartrending true story.” Levi lives in Seattle with his husband.