{"id":2821,"date":"2019-10-04T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2020-12-14T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T22:32:28","slug":"rainbow-first-book-of-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/rainbow-first-book-of-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: &#8220;Rainbow: A First Book of Pride&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Genhart, Michael (author) and Anne Passchier (illus.). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/1104224460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Rainbow: A First Book of Pride<\/em><\/a>. 2019. $17.99. 24p. HC. 978-1-4338-3087-7. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/pubs\/magination\/441B269\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-2822\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/441B269-400-346x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/441B269-400-346x346.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/441B269-400-139x139.jpg 139w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/441B269-400-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/441B269-400-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/441B269-400-220x220.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/441B269-400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a>Did you know the colors in the rainbow pride flag each stand for something? I have to confess to being a less-educated member of the LGBTQ+ community ? and the newly-renamed Rainbow Round Table ? in that, while I?d always assumed the colors represented something, I didn?t know the actual <em>meanings<\/em> behind them. So Michael Genhart?s latest picture book, <em>Rainbow: A First Book of Pride<\/em>, offered something of a surprise for me: Though it may be geared toward children 2-5 years old, this title can even teach clueless adults a thing or two.<\/p>\n<p>Composed of minimalist text ? think Todd Parr or Sandra Boynton ? paired with simple yet vibrant illustrations, <em>Rainbow<\/em> offers preschool-age children a first introduction to Pride. Passchier?s illustrations showcase children and caregivers of varying ethnicities and orientations, though ages and gender expressions are fairly one-note as all adults appear young and only two characters present as possibly gender non-conforming. Color meanings ? ?Red means life. Orange is healing. Yellow is sunlight.? ? match up nicely with Passchier?s illustrations ? a newborn baby in a hospital, an injured child being bandaged, a beautiful sunrise ? making the connection between text and images fairly obvious on each spread.<\/p>\n<p>While this title is intended for a preschool audience, it would have still been a nice touch to include some additional information and historical context as back matter for readers interested in learning more. Instead, Genhart ends with a Todd Parr-esque ?note from the author,? which is lovely but not informative. That being said, <em>Rainbow<\/em> offers a sweet introduction to the rainbow flag and is a welcome addition to Pride reading lists everywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Kate Frick, New York Public Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genhart, Michael (author) and Anne Passchier (illus.). Rainbow: A First Book of Pride. 2019. $17.99. 24p. HC. 978-1-4338-3087-7. Did you know the colors in the rainbow pride flag each stand for something? I have to confess to being a less-educated member of the LGBTQ+ community ? and the newly-renamed Rainbow Round Table ? in that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1206,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,105,21],"tags":[254,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}