Happy Pride Month, Educated Nannies family! We want to celebrate our LGBTQIA+ friends and community by sharing a few inclusive reads for the month of June. We personally love to bring these books into our homes all year round, but during this month of celebrating inclusion, we wanted to share a few of our favorites.
Picture Books
And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Pink Is For Boys – Robb Pearlman
Grandad’s Pride – Harry Woodgate
All Are Welcome – Alexandra Penfold
Julian Is A Mermaid – Jessica Love
Elementary
I Am Jazz – Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress – Christine Baldacchino
When Aiden Became a Brother – Kyle Lukoff
It Feels Good To Be Yourself – Theresa Thorn
What Are Your Words – Katherine Locke
Middle Grade
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World – Ashley Herring Blake
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St James – Ashley Herring Blake
Starcrossed – Barbara Dee
A High Five for Glenn Burke – Phil Bildner
Young Adult
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli
I’ll Give You The Sun – Jandy Nelson
Juliet Takes a Breath – Gabby Rivera
Some Girls Do – Jennifer Dugan
History Is All You Left Me – Adam Silvera
Adult
Endpapers – Jennifer Savran Kelly
Rosewater – Liv Little
Pomegranate – Helen Elaine Lee
This Unlikely Soil – Andrea Routley
Couplets – Maggie Milner
We hope that this list helps you bring inclusive reading to your home! We’ll be reading a few of these to celebrate Pride Month!