![]() ![]() It’s about time,” wrote AbeBooks’ Richard Davies. Its hard to fathom now the scorn and fear this mild-mannered tale of a girl and her two moms occasioned when it was published in 1989. ![]() It was listed for $3,000.“The price for this particular copy of ‘Heather Has Two Mommies’ - listed for sale by Nudel Books from New York - indicates that the title now has collectible status. Late last month, a true first edition surfaced on AbeBooks, a website that centralizes sales of used and antiquarian booksellers nationwide. It has never gone out of print a 25th-anniversary edition, with updated text and new illustrations, was published by Candlewick Press in 2015.īecause of its unique publishing history, it’s not easy to find those first copies of “Heather has Two Mommies.” About half of the original In Other Words printing was spoken for, with the books being distributed to the people who had donated an average of about $10 to help get it published. Yet “Heather Has Two Mommies” persisted, getting into the hands of welcoming readers, librarians and booksellers. Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, told The Times that “Heather Has Two Mommies” and “Daddy’s Roommate” would “bring God-fearing people together in a noble crusade” against them.īy the end of the decade, “Heather Has Two Mommies” was the ninth-most challenged book of the 1990s, landing higher on the list than “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. It was banned and challenged, the subject of public debate and railed against in Congress. As the culture wars of the 1990s heated up, “Heather Has Two Mommies” became a lightning rod. ![]()
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