Each June, corporate Pride collections offer plentiful “reading” material in the RuPaul’s Drag Race* sense of the word. (My personal favorite readings of these collections are Connor Clary’s.) But what if there was a Pride collection you could read with the children you serve…literally?
The Stonewall Book Awards
Enter the The Stonewall Book Awards List. (Sashay away, corporate Pride collections!) Sponsored by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Rainbow Round Table (RRT), The Stonewall Book Awards has included a children’s and young adult literature award since 2010. And you don’t even have to wait for June! Award winners and honorees are announced each January. Additionally, the RRT has published a Rainbow Book List online each year since 2008 with categories for preschool through young adulthood.
I made it through my entire childhood without reading a single book with an out queer character. (We’re not counting the queer-coded Disney villains. Also, I was raised Southern Baptist.) So I have no childhood favorites to share with the children I serve. The Stonewall Book Awards List and Rainbow Book List are an invaluable starting point in developing a Pride collection that reflects the full spectrum of LGBTQIA+ experience. The bonus: reading these texts myself heals the queer kid inside me.
What are your go-to sources for children’s books about the LGBTQIA+ experience? Drop a line in the comments or at ktaksier@ufl.edu. And don’t forget to check back on June 30. I’ll be live blogging the Stonewall Book Awards ceremony again this year at #alaac25.
*In the show’s recurring “Reading Challenge,” RuPaul references the documentary Paris is Burning. Namwali Serpell traces “reading” back to Zora Neale Hurston’s 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road.
This blog post relates to ALSC Core Competency IV: Collection Knowledge and Management.
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Each June, corporate Pride collections offer plentiful “reading” material in the RuPaul’s Drag Race* sense of the word. (My personal favorite readings of these collections are Connor Clary’s.) But what if there was a Pride collection you could read with the children you serve…literally? The Stonewall Book Awards Enter the The Stonewall Book Awards List. (Sashay away, corporate Pride collections!) Sponsored by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Rainbow Round Table (RRT), The Stonewall Book Awards has included a children’s and young adult literature award since 2010. And you don’t even have to wait for June! Award winners and honorees are announced each January. Additionally, the RRT has published a Rainbow Book List online each year since 2008 with categories for preschool through young adulthood. I made it through my entire childhood without reading a single book with an out queer character. (We’re not counting the queer-coded Disney villains. Also, I was raised Southern Baptist.)…
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