Build Your Bookshelf Series: LGBTQ+ Pride
Show your Pride and support this month by building your bookshelf with a colorful assortment of LGBTQ+ affirming read alouds and books that celebrate Pride History, diverse family structures, and love for all people! Whether you are a proud member, active ally, or welcome newcomer to the LGBTQ+ community, filling your home or classroom with LGBTQ+ representation through the magical world of children’s books will diversify your library AND build compassion and love for all people.
By filling your home or classroom with books that portray all kinds of families and celebrate LGBTQ+ representation, you are setting the stage for open-mindedness and love for all people that will positively impact your family or classroom, community, and the next generation.
Here are some of our favorite books that feature themes of love, family, and LGBTQ+ representation:
LGBTQ Books for Infant and Toddlers (0-3 years)
My Family, Your Family by Kathryn Cole
Love in the Wild by Katy Tanis
Pride Colors by Robin Stevenson
Babies Everywhere by Susan Meyers
Rainbow: A First Book of Pride by Michael Genhart
My Two Dads and Me and My Two Moms and Me by Michael Joosten
Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer
Families Can, Families Belong, and Families Grow by Dan Saks
Our Rainbow by Little Bee Books
Harvey Milk (People of Pride) by Little Bee Books
Frederico and All His Families by Mili Hernández
The Pronoun Book by Chris Ayala-Kronos
LGBTQ Books for Preschool and Kindergarten
Preschool and up (3 years - school-age)
This Little Rainbow: A Love-Is-Love Primer by Joan Holub
Worm Loves Worm by J J Austrian
Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate
A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O’Leary
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
Heather Has Two Mommies, Daddy, Papa, and Me, and Mommy, Momma, and Me by Leslea Newman
My Maddy by Gayle E. Pitman
A Plan for Pops by Heather Smith
My Moms Love Me by Anna Membrino
Stella Brings the Family by Miriam B. Schiffer
Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story about Gender and Friendship by Jess Walton
Jack (Not Jackie) by Erica Silverman
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
What Riley Wore by Elina K. Arnold
Neither by Airlie Anderson
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
My Shadow Is Pink and My Shadow Is Purple by Scott Stewart
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino
LGBTQ Books for School Age Children
They She He Me: Free to Be! by Maya Christina Gonzalez
One of a Kind, Like Me by Laurin Mayeno (4 and up)
In Our Mother’s House by Patricia Polacco (6 and up)
Jerome by Heart by Thomas Scotto
Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff
Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
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