Santa’s Husband is a children’s book by author Daniel Kibblesmith and Ashley Quach. The book challenges the heteronormative perspective of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus, and introduces us to the real Santa Claus’, “David.”
Here’s me and @sassquachcomics talking #SantasHusband with @VictorBlackwell on @CNN’s @NewDay.
https://t.co/zG4YngjrVv
— Daniel Kibblesmith
(@kibblesmith) December 17, 2017
David is a Black man.
What about the White Santa Claus you are used to seeing? Oh, that’s just his husband.
Daniel says, “It was sort of inspired by the annual tradition we have in this country of pretending that there is a giant war on Christmas and traditional Christmas is under attack. So, um, among other things we were reading all of the news of the Mall of America hiring a Black Santa Claus last year. And uh, me and my now wife made a joke on Twitter that if we ever had a child, they’d only know about Black Santa Claus and if they saw a White Santa Claus at the mall, we would just explain: well that’s his husband.”
Ashley, the illustrator talks about how important it is for children to see themselves, “Gosh, one of my favorite things about this book, especially as it’s come out, are friends that have children and families that have not seen themselves yet represented whether these are families of color or wether these are gay families with children. […] I loved to see children interact with the book.”
Twitter had both positive and negative reactions to the book.
Beauties, what do you think about this children’s book? Would you buy it for your child? Let us know in the comments and take our poll below.
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