State Library of Kansas
06/17/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 06/17/2021 09:39
Children's Corner - Celebrating Pride Month
Welcome to our all new Children's Corner blog series, all about great children's books. There are so many fantastic books in our collections that we'll be highlighting with more being added all the time, through local and national production and NLS acquisitions. We're so excited to share our selections with you.
June is Pride Month, a time to honor the Stonewall riots which helped spark the gay rights movement, as well as the contributions and impacts of LGBTQIA individuals and community in our history, society, and culture. This list of books includes stories celebrating diversity and helping kids to learn and ask questions leading to great understanding and empathy.
Describes the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, which sparked the gay liberation movement in the United States, and details the history of LGBTQ rights since the riots. For grades 2-4. 2019.
Recounts the struggle for LGBT equality through personal stories and firsthand accounts. Chronicles the movement's key events, profiles civil rights mavericks, and highlights contributions from famous LGBT individuals and organizations. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2016.
At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches. Commercial audiobook. For grades K-3. 2005.
A rhyming Pride parade experience. Includes end matter to serve as a primer on LGBT history and culture and to explain references made in the story. Stonewall Book Award. For grades K-3. 2014.
A pathbreaker when it was originally published twenty-five years ago, this book about a little girl with two mothers, Mama Kate and Mama Jane, cheerfully demonstrates that 'each family is special'.
Autobiography of Jazz Jennings, who recounts her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy, and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2014.
Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James must navigate heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, the betrayal of a former best friend, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl. Commercial audiobook. For grades 3-6. 2019.
Show-tune-singing, thirteen-year-old Nate feels underappreciated and stifled by his small-town life in Jankburg, Pennsylvania. He embarks on a daring adventure, traveling by bus to New York City so he can audition for a spot in E.T.: The Musical. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2013.