What to Read This Pride Month

Hayley

Hayley is a youth services librarian based at Norman Mayer Library specializing in queer and feminist children’s books.

June is Pride Month! There are tons of developmentally appropriate and fun books to celebrate Pride with kids and share information about the LGBTQIA community. Below are some of my favorites, from picture books to chapter books for older readers, to help get you started:

Picture Books

Chapter Books

Non-Fiction

When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
Bathe the Cat by Alice McGinty
‘Twas the Night Before Pride by Joanna McClintick
Mommy and Mama and Me in the Middle by Nina LaCour
Calvin by JR and Vanessa Ford
My Rainbow by Trinity and Deshanna Neal
Mr. Watson’s Chickens by Jarriet Drapier
The Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson
Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder
Pride Puppy by Robin Stevenson
What Are Your Words: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke and Anne Passchier
Maiden and Princess by Daniel Haack and Isabel Galupo
From Archie to Zack by Vincent X. Kirsch
Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild
Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

The Insiders by Mark Oshiro
Too Bright To See by Kyle Lukoff
Both Can Be True by Jules Machais
Frankie and Bug by Gayle Forman
Thanks a Lot Universe by Chad Lucas
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callendar
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
The Tea Dragon series by K. O’Neill
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle Pitman
The Deep and Dark Blue by Nikki Smith

Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution by Rob Sanders
Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman by Sharice Davids and Nancy C. Mays
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
The Fighting Infantryman: The Story of Albert D. J. Cashier, Transgender Civil War Soldier by Rob Sanders
Were I Not A Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry by Lisa Robinson
Sewing the Rainbow by Gayle Pitman
Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring by Matthew Burgess
Two Grooms on a Cake: The Story of America’s First Gay Wedding by Rob Sanders
The Every Body Book: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families by Rachel E. Simon

These are just a small sampling of the Library’s many books, movies, and more that celebrate the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.