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Pride
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- Book Synopsis
- Key Selling Points Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle examines the history, identity, celebration and future of Pride. The first edition of Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community has sold over 25,000 copies. This updated and expanded edition of Pride celebrates the LGBTQ+ community's diversity and the incredible victories of the past fifty years**x2014;but it also has a larger focus on activism, the need to keep fighting for equality and freedom around the world and the important role that young people are playing. The author is a member of the LGBTQ+ community and has been attending Pride celebrations for over thirty years. The author has spoken about LGBTQ+ issues and Pride to thousands of students across Canada. She has also presented to librarians, teachers and education students on topics such as supporting LGBTQ+ youth, creating safe spaces for them, ensuring inclusion in classrooms and libraries and starting GSAs in schools.
- About The Author
- Robin Stevenson is the award-winning author of more than thirty-five books of fiction and non-fiction for kids and teens, including the picture books Pride Puppy, Pride Colors and A Hug on the Wind, and the novel The Book of Jupiter. Her books have won the Silver Birch Award, the Sheila A. Egoff award and a Stonewall Honor, and been finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards and many reader's choice awards. Her work has been translated and published in more than ten countries, including Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Robin was the Book and Periodical Council of Canada's Champion of Free Expression for 2022. In 2023, she was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. She is also a co-founder of Canadian Authors and Illustrators Against Book Bans. She has degrees in philosophy and social work, and worked for ten years as a social worker and counsellor before becoming a full-time writer. Robin lives on the west coast of Canada with her family.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781459821248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers, (24 March 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 168
- Weight
- 440 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 226 x 188 x 18 mm
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