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The Big Book of Pride Flags by Jessica Kingsley and Jem Milton

The Gender Book: Girls, Boys, Non-Binary, and Beyond by Cassandra Jules Corrigan

May 31, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Big Book of Pride Flags by Jessica Kingsley with appropriately bold and colorful illustrations by Jem Milton is a fun introduction to the types of flags and the Queer community. Things are not overly in-depth, but it does the job and includes many of the popular flags. Again, the illustrations are fun that accompany things making a nonfiction book (that frankly, could be dull) be loud, proud, and accessible to most ages. There is short, understandable information and the decision guide allows for the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Cassandra Jules Corrigan, flags, gender, glbtq, Jem Milton, Jessica Kingsley, Jessica Kingsley and Jem Milton, Pride, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:226 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Cassandra Jules Corrigan, flags, gender, glbtq, Jem Milton, Jessica Kingsley, Jessica Kingsley and Jem Milton, Pride, Social Themes ·
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Read with Pride every time

Meaning of Pride by Rosiee Thor

April 18, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago I was cleaning up old emails and found one from 2022!  It was a note I had sent to the author of  Meaning of Pride, Rosiee Thor and their response. They mentioned they were sharing my note with illustrator Sam Kirk. I never heard from them; but then again, I was not expecting to (though it would have been awesome). Finding this note made me want to read it once again. Now the real kick-in-the-pants? It was still an online reader! […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: actors, glbtq, poets, Pride, pride celebrations, Rosiee Thor, Sam Kirk, Social Activists, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:161 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: actors, glbtq, poets, Pride, pride celebrations, Rosiee Thor, Sam Kirk, Social Activists, Social Themes ·
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Lovin’ those summer reads

Out of the Blue by Nic Yulo

Hair Love ABC’s by Matthew A. Cherry

February 2, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Theme of this review is: I had two short books and not enough to say about either to make two 250-word reviews. And this time it is only one CBR15Passport, new to me author Nic Yulo. The first book is Out of the Blue by Nic Yulo (who also is the illustrator of this mad capped adventure) is about smallness and bigness. Our gal Coral is a big dreams and big adventure gal, but it is hard to do that when you are the smallest person […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Alphabet, animals, CBR15Passport, family, Matthew A. Cherry, Nic Yulo, ocean, Pride, Vashti Harrison

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:74 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Alphabet, animals, CBR15Passport, family, Matthew A. Cherry, Nic Yulo, ocean, Pride, Vashti Harrison ·
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Proud Pride

This Little Rainbow: A Love-Is-Love Primer and Pride 1 2 3 by Joan Holub

Pride 1 2 3 by Michael Joosten

June 9, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This Little Rainbow: A Love-Is-Love Primer and Pride 1 2 3 are not pushy but are at times can be borderline. Joan Holub’s This Little addition with Pride leaders is good but feels a bit advanced for the board book reader. And Pride 1 2 3 has been done before, so it feels like the subject is being pushed. Now both are a few years old, therefore, it might be a case of at the time they were fresh, but now I have read so […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: board books, Daniel Roode, glbtq, Joan Holub, Michael Joosten, Pride, Wednesday Holmes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:285 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: board books, Daniel Roode, glbtq, Joan Holub, Michael Joosten, Pride, Wednesday Holmes ·
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A story gem

Brown is Beautiful by Supriya Kelkar

May 4, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am going to cheat and give you the publisher description: On a hike with her grandparents, a young Indian-American girl makes note of all the things in the wilderness that are brown, too. Includes instructions on how to make a scrapbook. Why am I cheating? Because that is all you need to know about the story. What I want to focus on is how awesomely awesome this book is. We know that story, but this time we have a voice that is poetic, sweet, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: Environment, family, Pride, Science & Nature, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Supriya Kelkar

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:204 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: Environment, family, Pride, Science & Nature, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Supriya Kelkar ·
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This has got to be the most misleading title ever

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

June 30, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Today is June 30th and the end of Pride month. How very fitting that I finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo today. This book is queer as hell, and I had no idea going in. I just knew that I loved Daisy Jones and the Six by Reid, and this book came highly praised by friends and Cannonballers alike. I loved nearly every moment of it. This book is told through two main points of view, that of Evelyn Hugo and that of her biographer Monique Grant. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Golden Age of Hollywood, Hollywood, lgbt, Marriage, Old Hollywood, Pride, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Golden Age of Hollywood, Hollywood, lgbt, Marriage, Old Hollywood, Pride, Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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