Prepping for Pride Month with Critical Multicultural Analysis

With Pride Month just over the rainbow,* Critical Multicultural Analysis (CMA) is a helpful tool for putting together your library’s 2026 “Pride Collection.” The Stonewall Book Awards List, Rainbow Book List, and Diverse BookFinder offer a veritable parade of choices. CMA helps ensure our collection and displays (which I guess are the parade floats in this metaphor?) represent a spectrum of LGBTQIA+ experiences. In Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors, Botelho and Rudman offer a framework for evaluating children’s literature writ large. They encourage readers to consider a text’s production, point of view, characters’ agency, illustrations, genre, sociopolitical/historical context, and ending. I have found the following guiding questions from a 2014 article by Botelho and colleagues helpful whether I’m preparing for Pride Month or Earth Day. CMA Guiding Questions Adapted from Botelho et al., 2014 What tools do you use to evaluate books with LGBTQIA+ representation? Drop…
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