Celebrating Pride

Happy Pride Month! Celebrate by enjoying Pride Puppy by Robin Stevenson and Julie McLaughlin!

In this very cute and clever alphabet book, Robin Stevenson takes us to Pride celebrations. Through her illustrations Julie McLaughlin shares all of the sights and sounds of parade day. It’s inclusive and joyful, colourful and welcoming and perfect to share not just in June but all year long to celebrate love.

There is a ton going on in this simple little alphabet book. First, readers can follow the puppy all throughout the book and see what happens during the parade. Next, the text slips and slides through all the pages, lyrically and poetically sharing the joy of Pride. Finally, each page is an alphabet search and find! Julie McLaughlin has hidden some wonderful treasures on each page and the challenge is to find all of the things on each page that start with the letter features. The answers are at the back if you really need them, but what an amazing way to keep the reader engaged and returning to the story! The Bee likes that PRide Month is a time to celebrate love and all of the different ways we can love each other. She loves how the stories show different things you can do at the Pride Parade.

Pride Puppy is a celebration of the 2SLGBTQIA community and that is reflected in the signs throughout the illustrations like: Queer Farmers, Two Spirit Pride an Trans Rights are Human Rights. The illustrations feature disabled revellers, families, non-binary folks, Indigenous Peoples as well as those at their first pride parade and veteran marchers. This book should be one of a child’s first treasures for their bookshelf.