'Twas the night before Pride

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Title:

'Twas the night before Pride

Alternate title:

It was the night before Pride

Author:

McClintick, Joanna, author.

Medina, Juana, 1980- illustrator.

Summary:

This joyful picture-book homage to a day of community and inclusion—and to the joys of anticipation—is also a comprehensive history. With bright, buoyant illustrations and lyrical, age-appropriate rhyme modeled on “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” it tackles difficult content such as the Stonewall Riots and the AIDS marches. On the night before Pride, families everywhere are preparing to partake. As one family packs snacks and makes signs, an older sibling shares the importance of the march with the newest member of the family. Reflecting on the day, the siblings agree that the best thing about Pride is getting to be yourself. Debut author Joanna McClintick and Pura Belpré Award–winning author-illustrator Juana Medina create a new classic that pays homage to the beauty of families of all compositions—and of all-inclusive love. -- Amazon.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Genre:

Stories in rhyme.

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Sexual minorities -- Juvenile fiction.

Gay Pride Day -- Juvenile fiction.

Gay pride celebrations -- Juvenile fiction.

Gay liberation movement -- History -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Medina, Juana, 1980-

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Publication Date:

2022

ISBN:

9781536213430

Publication Information:

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2022.

Call Number:

P MCCLINTICK

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
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Summary

A glittering celebration of queer families puts Pride gently in perspective--honoring those in the LGBTQ+ community who fought against injustice and inequality.

Pride's . . . a day that means "Together, we are strong!"

This joyful picture-book homage to a day of community and inclusion--and to the joys of anticipation--is also a comprehensive history. With bright, buoyant illustrations and lyrical, age-appropriate rhyme modeled on "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," it tackles difficult content such as the Stonewall Riots and the AIDS marches. On the night before Pride, families everywhere are preparing to partake. As one family packs snacks and makes signs, an older sibling shares the importance of the march with the newest member of the family. Reflecting on the day, the siblings agree that the best thing about Pride is getting to be yourself. Debut author Joanna McClintick and Pura Belpré Award-winning author-illustrator Juana Medina create a new classic that pays homage to the beauty of families of all compositions--and of all-inclusive love.

Author Notes

Joanna McClintick is a debut children's book author and a licensed social worker at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center in Manhattan. When she was dreaming about building her family, she wrote this poem to honor Pride's history of resistance and imagined sharing it with her future child one day. It has become a tradition to read it at their annual brunch the day before the Pride March with family and friends. Joanna McClintick lives with her wife and child in Brooklyn.

Juana Medina is the author-illustrator of Juana & Lucas , which won the 2017 Pura Belpré Author Award; Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas ; Juana & Lucas: Muchos Changes ; and many other titles and has illustrated numerous picture books, including Smick! by Doreen Cronin and I'm a Baked Potato! by Elise Primavera. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Juana Medina now lives with her family in the Washington DC area.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Packing snacks, making signs, and sharing queer history with their newest addition, an interracial queer family prepares for Pride in this celebratory picture book. Via largely scanning rhymes that echo Clement C. Moore's holiday classic, an older child narrator and their two moms explain the upcoming outing to baby Sammy. Along the way, McClintick's lines connect the family's pride to the work of activists, artists, and everyday people who have fought "to know that we matter/ to show all we exist": "So Pride's not just about tutus and rainbow suspenders./ It's about rights for queers and all our beautiful genders." Medina's rainbow-hued illustrations give Pride scale and scope, mingling images of protests with awe-inspiring parade views from above, the spreads brimming with people of arrayed abilities, gender expressions, and skin tones carrying a range of Pride flags in this warm and moving tale. End papers feature queer icons. Ages 4--8. (May)