Hosted by Drag Nation ACT winner for 2019, Toni Kola, Rainbow Families Drag Story Time will present books such as Julian is a Mermaid, Heather has Two Mummies and Pink is for Boys in what will be a first for the capital.

Selected from the library's rainbow family-friendly children's books, the books are some of the drag queen's favourites and help promote gender diversity and having fun expressing yourself.

"For me, if I can picture it being read on Play School then it's perfect. If you can imagine Noni Hazelhurst reading one of these books, then it just gets my nostalgia going," Kola says.

"I work with kids in my day job and I've really wanted to try and do just any kind of drag that can be family-friendly and child-related.

"We've done some stuff like Yes!Fest and done stuff for the Zombie Walk - big drag performances for all ages - but it's really hard to find venues and spaces that we can do these kinds of things.

"Having the library approach me to do Story Time, I actually got really, really excited because I know that there are a lot of rainbow family groups and a lot of LGBTQI people who have young kids, or who are young kids, who want to have a safe place where they can network and be themselves and hear some cool stories."

The program is designed for children up to the age of eight - but of course, anyone is invited to come along. Kola, herself, even has people coming along from her uni days to hear her read, and possibly even pull out her ukulele for a song or two.

While the event is a first for Libraries ACT, similar events have been held in different cities across the world in the past years.

Kola says, as the number of Canberra drag queens has increased in the past 18 months to about 100 people performing on a semi-regular basis, it's great to be expanding the number of queer events to include family-friendly ones such as Story Time.

"The bigger cities like Sydney and Melbourne, they have so much more in terms of queer culture," Kola says.

"There are more places to go, there are more safe spaces, there are youth groups where younger kids can actually go and meet other people who are like them and make friends outside of the incredibly small school population.

"So having events like this, especially for young rainbow families and young LGBTQI people, this is really important.

"I'm hoping that it is a good response. That being said, it's the first time the event has been run. I think given the welcoming and loving nature of everyone in Canberra, I'm fairly sure it's going to be a good time."