The Drag Story Time was part of the Dunedin Pride Festival.
Miss Salome said the story she read, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, was about sharing.
"It’s also about not letting people walk all over you but I didn’t realise ... until I was an adult."
Qsquared Trust treasurer Hahna Briggs said the idea was to provide a range of events for all ages for the festival.
"It’s a great way of sharing stories of diversity to young people."
The trust got the idea from a similar concept in the United States, she said.