Malins mamma gifter sig med Lisa

Malins mamma gifter sig med Lisa 
by Annette Lundborg 
illus. by Mimmi Tollerup-Grkovic
Language: Swedish 
Stockholm : Eriksson & Lindgren, 1999. 
[26] s. : färgill. ; 27 cm. 
ISBN: 9187805596; 9789187805592 
Summary: Denna bok är en utpräglad HBT-bok där författaren poängterar att ”Malins mamma ska gifta sig med Lisa. Malins mamma, Siv, älskar Lisa och Lisa älskar Siv”. Boken handlar om regnbågsfamiljeliv där Lisa och Siv respektive Malins pappa och Niklas delar barn med varandra. Att ett homosexuellt par delar barn med ett annat homosexuellt par är ett vanligt sätt för hbt-par att kunna få barn och boken visar den stora tryggheten som det innebär för Malin och hennes kommande syskon att ha fyra föräldrar att vända sig till. Föräldrarna framställs som helt vanliga människor utan onödiga klyschor som kort hår och manhaftighet respektive fjollighet och intresse för utseendet. I boken beskrivs även hur barn blir till genom att små frön som simmar in i magen och träffar ägget. Malins mamma berättar att hon fick en hel burk med frön av Malins pappa. 
My annotation: Many exciting things are happening in five-year-old Malin’s life this year. Her mother Siv and her partner Lisa, have just gotten married, and Lisa is now pregnant with her own child and Malin is excited about soon becoming a big sister! As Lisa’s belly grows, Malin becomes curious and one day asks her mother where babies come from and her mom explains that they come from the seeds of a man and the egg of a woman. Malin does not need to know whose seeds she came from though. She already knows her father, most likely from birth, and loves him dearly. Her father’s partner, Niklas, has now donated his seeds to Lisa, Malin’s other mother, as they too wish to become parents. Malin’s unnamed father and his partner do many things with Malin’s family. Both men attended Siv and Lisa’s wedding and party, and they also vacation together. And now Niklas has donated his sperm to Lisa so that she too can become a mother and he a father. This book is not expressly about donor conception, but it is a fact that the main character of the book was conceived via sperm donation. Both mothers participated in Malin’s conception as Lisa helped put the seeds into Siv’s “stomach,” it is explained. This book employs the helper script and takes a family-building approach as clearly Malin has a unique family situation. Recommended for children ages 3-5 and available only in Swedish, though it is currently out of print.