Celebrating Pride Month June 1, 2022 – Posted in: Book News, Great Picture books, Ideas for 9-12 year olds, Ideas for teen readers, Inclusive Books, Non-Fiction
Celebrating Pride
Celebrating Pride Month is a celebration of people coming together in love and friendship. It shows how far LGBTQ+ rights have come, and how in some places there’s still work to be done. LGBTQ+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Queer. The + is an inclusive symbol to mean ‘and others’ to include people of all identities. This year is a significant year for the Pride movement and the LGBTQ+ community as we commemorate 50 Years since the first Pride took place in the United Kingdom.
At Bags of Books we are proud to supply a wide selection of children’s books that show a range of diversity. You can find below our favourite books for all ages that showcase an LGBTQ+ theme, to help with the celebrating of Pride Month.
Picture Books
Inclusive characters are so important in picture books of today. It allows us to show little ones all the different types of family and people who make up our world. That it’s ok to be whoever you want to be. Below is a selection of LGBTQ+ picture books, but a full range showing all different types of diversity here
Fiction
LGBTQ+ in middle grade fiction is portrayed less in main characters. The themes are mostly found in supporting characters, who tend to be adults, such as parents.
Young Adults
In todays YA fiction, LGBTQ+ is a theme that has become increasingly popular and characters are now featured in most of todays new titles. It’s so hard to choose our favourites so we have selected the ones with LGBTQ+ main characters.
You can see see more LGBTQ+ fiction for young adults here
Non-Fiction
An array of non-fiction titles for children of all ages. You can find the rest of our non-fiction range here
If you are a teacher and would like to see more topics that can help children with their learning and understanding of the wider world then you can visit our specialist site for schools here
