Book Launch: 2023-2024 Round Up
Kit Ballenger
The summer might’ve been unusually hot, but we have a pretty cool announcement for your fall: Pride and Less Prejudice has new Book Bundles! We are offering 16 titles to PreK - 3rd Grade classrooms for the 2023-2024 school year that reflect a wide range of LGBTQIA+ identities and lived experiences, available for free by request through our online form. We’re delighted to bring you a book list that includes a mix of fiction and nonfiction books by new and familiar authors and illustrators, and our selections include a variety of formats – including an illustrated chapter book and our first wordless picture book – to serve a wide array of readers. As always, we offer a Teaching Guide for each selection to help you incorporate the books into your curriculum, and we will bring you recorded read-alouds by many of the books’ creators in the months to come.
The 2023-2024 Pride and Less Prejudice selections include:
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington, by Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders, illus. by Byron McCray
Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake, by Andrea Beaty, illus. by David Roberts
Cómo Aidan llegó a ser un hermano / When Aidan Became a Brother, by Kyle Lukoff, illus. by Kaylani Juanita
Desert Queen, by Jyoti Rajan Gopal, illus. by Svabhu Kohli
Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America’s First Openly Transgender Senator, by Meeg Pincus, illus. by Meridth McKean Gimbal
Forever Home, by Henry Cole
Grandad’s Pride, by Harry Woodgate
Jamie and Bubbie: A Book About People’s Pronouns, by Afsaneh Moradian
Love Without Bounds: An IntersectionAllies Book About Families, by Carolyn Choi, Chelsea Johnson, and LaToya Council, illus. by Ashley Seil Smith
Molly’s Tuxedo, by Vicki Johnson, illus. by Gillian Reid
My Parents Won’t Stop Talking, by Emma Hunsinger and Tillie Walden
Something Great, by Jeanette Bradley
Soon, Your Hands, by Jonathan Stutzman, illus. by Elizabeth Lilly
Strong, by Rob Kearney and Eric Rosswood, illus. by Nidhi Chanani
The Wishing Flower, by A.J. Irving, illus. by Kip Alizadeh
True You: A Gender Journey, by Gwen Agna and Shelly Rotner
If you’re eager to get reading and want to purchase these wonderful books for your personal use, you can find them listed on Pride and Less Prejudice’s Bookshop page. Purchases of these – or any other book! – through our affiliate Bookshop storefront will automatically send a small donation to PLP, at no extra cost to you, which helps us reach even more readers! Happy back-to-school!
