Pride 2024: New(ish) Titles!
As we said in our Pride 2022 piece: we celebrate Pride all year.
To help you celebrate Pride and our LGBTQIA2+ whānau, we offer some recent and/or favourite queer reads. We get so many requests from families looking for books like these so we wanted to share this handy, and updated, resource with all of you!
About our featured image:
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
Credit: Rachel Lense, Comms Lead at NASA.
White: Cloud vortices off Heard Island (south Indian Ocean) Taken 11/02/2015 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua Earth-observing satellite mission go.nasa.gov/3VmM059
Pink: Aurora over Bear Lake, Utah Taken 05/11/2024 by NASA’s Bill Dunford.
Light blue: X-class solar flare in extreme ultraviolet light Taken 05/15/2024 by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) imager on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in the 131-angstrom wavelength
Brown: Swirling storms in Jupiter’s North Temperate Belt Taken on 10/16/2021 by Juno’s JunoCam on the spacecraft’s 37th close flyby go.nasa.gov/4bVElli.
Black: Hubble Ultra Deep Field (composite image) Taken over 11 days between 09/24/2003 and 01/16/2004 by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera Multi-object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
Red: Red sprite cluster Taken 11/01/2022 by Spritacular participant Nicolas Escurat in Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France go.nasa.gov/45orxRY.
Orange: Mars’ Intrepid Crater Taken 11/11/2010 by Opportunity’s panoramic camera (Pancam) in near true color (601 nm, 535 nm, 482 nm wavelengths) science.nasa.gov/resource/int…
Yellow: Io basemap (composite image) Images from Voyager’s vidicon and Galileo’s solid-state imaging cameras were stitched together to form this map of Jupiter’s volcanically active moon www.nasa.gov/image-articl…
Green: Algal blooms on California’s Clear Lake Taken 05/15/2024 by Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) in natural color earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15286…
Blue: Neptune’s Great Dark Spot Taken 10/30/1998 by Voyager 2’s narrow angle camera from 4.4 million miles away from the planet go.nasa.gov/4clnV5s
Purple: Crab Nebula (composite) Taken 12/11/2013 by the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer instrument on ESA’s Herschel telescope and archival data from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope go.nasa.gov/4cgBP95
Pride in Our Family:
Queer families, of all makes and sizes, have been part of our world for ever.
These titles celebrate these.
- THINGS IN THE SEA ARE TOUCHING ME! by Linda Jane Keegan & Minky Stapleton.
- THE MARVELLOUS DOCTORS FOR MAGICAL CREATURES by Jodie Lancet-Grant & Lydia Corry.
- THE PIRATE MUMS by Jodie Lancet-Grant & Lydia Corry.
- MY DADDIES by Gareth Peter & Garry Parsons.
- MAMA AND MOMMY AND ME IN THE MIDDLE by Nina LaCour & Kaylani Juanita.
- A PLAN FOR POPS by Heather Smith & Brooke Kerrigan.
- WHO’S YOUR REAL MOM? by Bernadette Green & Anna Zobel.
- MY MADDY by Gayle E. Pitman & Violet Tobacco.
- IN OUR MOTHERS’ HOUSE by Patricia Polacco.
- MILLIE’S BIG DECISION by Ian Eagleton & Max Rimbaldi.
- MY MOMS LOVE ME by Anna Membrino & Joy Hwang Ruiz.
- STELLA BRINGS THE FAMILY by Miriam B. Schiffer & Holly Clifton-Brown.
- PATIENCE, PATCHES! by Christy Mihaly & Sheryl Murray.
- GRANDAD’S CAMPER by Harry Woodgate.
- WRESTLE! by Charlotte Mars, Maya Newell, Gus Skattebol-James & Tom Jellett.
Pride in the Community:
LGBTQIA2+ / queer whānau are part of our community. These books show that.
Sometimes the representation is hard to spot – just like it can be in real life.
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A FAMILY IS A FAMILY IS A FAMILY by Sara O’Leary and Qin Leng.
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SOON, YOUR HANDS by Jonathan Stutzman and Elizabeth Lilly.
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MY MAGIC FAMILY by Lotte Jeffs & Sharon Davey.
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YOU KNOW HOW TO LOVE to Rachel Tawil Kenyon and Mary Lundquist.
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CHOICES by Roozeboos.
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MUMAPALOOZA by Sarina Dickson and Ant Sang.
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ALL MOMS / ALL MUMS by Sarah Kate Eillis, Kristen Ellis-Henderson, & Max Rambaldi.
Pride in the Festival:
Time to celebrate Pride! And these books do just that:
- PRIDE: THE STORY OF HARVEY MILK AND THE RAINBOW FLAG by Rob Sanders & Steven Salerno.
- GRANDAD’S PRIDE by Harry Woodgate.
- PRIDE PUPPY by Robin Stevenson & Julie McLaughlin.
- ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE PRIDE by Joanna McClintick & Juana Medina.
- RAINBOW: A FIRST BOOK OF PRIDE by Michael Genhart & Anne Passchier.
Pride in Our Identity:
Sometimes it can take a lifetime to know yourself, or to be comfortable in your identity. Lets give all our storytime friends the best chance to be confident in themselves, as soon as they can.
- DAZZLEHANDS by Sacha Cotter & Josh Morgan.
- FRED GETS DRESSED by Peter Brown.
- I AM NOT A PRINCE by Rachael Davis & Beatrix Hatcher.
- MIGHTY RED RIDING HOOD by Wallace West.
- THE FROG’S KISS by James Mayhew and Toto.
- NOT HE OR SHE, I’M ME by A. M. Wild & Kah Yangni.
- SHINE LIKE A UNICORN by Shelli R. Johannes & Maddie Frost.
- VLAD, THE FABULOUS VAMPIRE by Flavia Z. Drago.
- NEN AND THE LONELY FISHERMAN by Ian Eagleton & James Mayhew.
- AS BRIGHT AS A RAINBOW by Romy Ash & Blue Jaryn.
- IF YOU’RE A DRAG QUEEN AND YOU KNOW IT by Lil Miss Hot Mess & Olga de Dios.
Pride 2024: Subdued Celebrations
At Storytime Solidarity we understand the tremendously difficult position so many of you are in. Even if you’re not able to provide Pride Storytimes, even with community support and requests from families, know that knowing the literature can be profoundly helpful. The books on this list are great literature, we’re so fortunate to be living in a golden age of children’s books.
No matter the climate, we can all make sure that we know some great books that can provide representation that families are asking for. If you’re not able to do a Pride display or storytime does not mean that you cannot find ways to support families. And your knowledge and kindness can mean more than you know for a family that may not feel welcomed otherwise.
