"Coloring into Existence documents the emergence of a North American queer of color children’s literary archive, focusing on the creation, distribution, and potential impact of picture books by and about queer and trans of color authors. This comparative study across Canada, the United States, and Mexico from 1990 to 2020 fuses literary criticism and close readings with historical analysis and interviews. Millán engages LGBTQ+ picture books through the hermeneutic of autofantasía, a framework developed throughout the book that usefully entangles fiction and nonfiction."

New York University Press, 352 pages