‘Pride Puppy!’: B.C. kids book at centre of U.S. Supreme Court case
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The book is described as an "affirming and inclusive book that offers a joyful glimpse of a Pride parade and the vibrant community that celebrates this day each year."
When a puppy gets lost at a Pride Parade, everyone comes together to ensure the young pup is reunited with his family.
That is the premise behind the book Pride Puppy!, written by Vancouver Island author Robin Stevenson and published in 2021.
The rhyming alphabet book is described as an “affirming and inclusive book that offers a joyful glimpse of a Pride parade and the vibrant community that celebrates this day each year.”
It is now at the centre of a U.S. Supreme Court case in Maryland.
At the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Maryland’s largest school district, which serves more than 160,000 students, approved a handful of storybooks featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer characters for use in the language-arts curriculum.
Pride Puppy! was one of the books.
Andrew Woolridge, publisher of the books at Orca Book Publishers on Vancouver Island, told Global News that while books have been banned for various reasons before, what is happening lately is a “more chilling” trend.
“In terms of people choosing to target particular groups of people in the books that are being read in schools in particular,” Woolridge said.
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