'Twas the Night Before Pride.

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Call Number: E McC, Kids Book / Picture Books / General / McClintick, Joanna
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E McC	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / McClintick, Joanna	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / McClintick, Joanna	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / McClintick, Joanna	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / McClintick, Joanna	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024

A glittering celebration of queer families puts Pride gently in perspective--honoring those in the LBGTQ+ community who fought against injustice and inequality. Pride Day is a day that means "Together, we are strong!"

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Great Idea, But It Doesn't Work submitted by Meginator on July 1, 2023, 5:18pm I love the idea of this book and the illustrations, but the text lacks the required easy rhythm of its obvious inspiration, “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”, but the book is quite difficult to read; I struggled to read it silently to myself and the sections I tried aloud also lacked any sense of natural flow. The author does a great job of linking current Pride celebrations to the history of queer activism and resistance, bolstered by appropriately colorful illustrations that incorporate a wonderfully diverse cast in both the past and the present, and readers who can muddle their way through the subpar text can potentially get a lot out of the book. The idea of riffing on the classic Christmas poem in this way is a solid one, but the rhymes and rhythms herein are simply too distorted and contorted to work the way the author intended them to and I found this incredibly disappointing given its sky-high potential.