{"id":33384,"date":"2025-06-25T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=33384"},"modified":"2025-06-24T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:25:39","slug":"alas-pride-collections-the-stonewall-book-awards-and-rainbow-book-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/alas-pride-collections-the-stonewall-book-awards-and-rainbow-book-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA\u2019s \u201cPride Collections\u201d: The Stonewall Book Awards and Rainbow Book Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Each June, corporate Pride collections offer plentiful \u201creading<\/a>\u201d material in the RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race* <\/em>sense of the word. (My personal favorite readings of these collections are Connor Clary\u2019s<\/a>.) But what if there was a Pride collection you could read with the children you serve…literally?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Stonewall Book Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Enter the The Stonewall Book Awards List<\/a>.\u00a0(Sashay away, corporate Pride collections!) Sponsored by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Rainbow Round Table (RRT)<\/a>, The Stonewall Book Awards<\/a> has included a\u00a0children\u2019s and young adult literature award<\/a>\u00a0since 2010<\/a>.\u00a0And you don\u2019t even have to wait for June! Award winners and honorees are announced each January. Additionally, the RRT<\/a> has published a Rainbow Book List<\/a> online each year since 2008<\/a> with categories for preschool through young adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"The<\/a>
Jes and Cin Wibowo<\/em><\/a>\u2019s middle grades graphic novel <\/em>Lunar Boy<\/a> won this year\u2019s <\/em>Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children\u2019s & Young Adult Literature Award<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> (Image courtesy of HarperCollins.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I made it through my entire childhood without reading a single book with an out <\/em>queer character. (We\u2019re not counting the queer-coded Disney villains<\/a>. Also, I was raised Southern Baptist.) So I have no childhood favorites to share with the children I serve. The Stonewall Book Awards List<\/a> and Rainbow Book List<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are your go-to sources for children\u2019s books about the LGBTQIA+ experience? Drop a line in the comments or at ktaksier@ufl.edu<\/a>. And don’t forget to check back on June 30. I’ll be live blogging the Stonewall Book Awards ceremony<\/a> again<\/a> this year at #alaac25<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*In the show\u2019s recurring \u201c<\/em>Reading Challenge<\/em><\/a>,\u201d RuPaul references the documentary <\/em>Paris is Burning. Namwali Serpell<\/em><\/a> traces \u201creading\u201d back to Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s 1942 autobiography, <\/em>Dust Tracks on the Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This blog post relates to ALSC Core Competency IV<\/a>: Collection Knowledge and Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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