Recommended books to celebrate Pride
Primary and Secondary
Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
Something Else by Kathryn Cave and illustrated by Chris Riddell.
A Storm Of Strawberries by Jo Cotterill
The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow by Benjamin Dean
The Girl with Two Dads by Mel Elliott
10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert
Mr Left and Mr Right by Daniel Fehr
Zaterdag by Saskia Halfmouw (a Dutch wordless book in which each page is filled with people from every cultural and social background doing different things on a Saturday – including an LGBT family simply being with everyone else)
My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis
I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
Little People, Big Dreams series including Ru Paul, Alan Turing and Frida Kahlo
Julian Is A Mermaid by Jessica Love
The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water by Gemma Merino
Tough Guys Have Feelings Too by Keith Negley
Donovan’s Big Day by Leslea Newman
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
Daddy, Papa and Me by Leslea Newman
Mommy, Mama and ME by Leslea Newman
King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland
Bloom by Kevin Pannetta
The Family Book by Todd Parr
This Day in June by Gayle E Pitman
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
What’s a Penguin to Think When He Wakes Up Pink by Lynne Rickards
Mr Pod and Mr Picalilli – Nick Sharratt
Jack (Not Jackie) by Erica Silverman
My Shadow is Pink by Scott Stuart
The GayBCs by Matthew Lucas Web.
Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson
YA
Dear Ijeawele: A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
Love, Simon (or Simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda) by Becky Albertalli
Black Flamingoby Dean Atta
Queer: A graphic history by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele
Ashes to Asheville by Sarah Dooley
Better Nate Than Never by Tim Federle
George by Alex Gino
The left hand of darkness by Ursula le Guin
50 queers who changed the world: a celebration of LGBTQ+ icons by Dan Jones
Creative resistance: participatory methods for engaging queer youth by John Marnell & Gabriel Hoosain Khan
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Rise Up! The Art of the Protest by Jo Rippon
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Queer Heroes by Arabelle Sicardi
Beyond the gender binary by Alok Vaid- Menon
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
Adult
Can We All Be Feminists? Edited by June Eric-Udorie and published by Virago.
Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta
The ministry of utmost happiness by Arundhati Roy
We are everywhere by Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown
The Mermaid of Black Conch- Monique Roffey
