Today, we’re exploring a perfect children’s book for Pride week. This is My Shadow is Pink by best-selling children’s book author Scott Stuart. His books are intended to empower young children of all kinds. His continuing messages of acceptance and patience and kindness have earned him nominations for Children’s Book of the Year over and over again.
In addition to his wonderful children’s books, Stuart, who is a parent himself, has also written some guides for parents of non-gender-conforming children. In these days of book bannings and mis-information and bullying, Stuart is a clear and necessary voice for exercising kindness and understanding. His social media accounts are a joy to explore, and he manages to educate parents and children alike using humor and patience. Of course, he has his share of haters, but at least publicly, he deals with them with the same patience and understanding that he advocates parents exercise with their children.
You can follow Scott Stuart on his website and on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, and you can purchase his books on Amazon.
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June 26, 2024 at 6:15 am
The world needs more people like Scott Stuart!
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June 26, 2024 at 8:23 am
Indeed it does! What a lovely father he is.
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June 26, 2024 at 7:44 am
A lovely video and the book looks wonderful too.
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June 26, 2024 at 8:24 am
Everyone’s kids are getting these for the holidays this year!
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June 26, 2024 at 9:02 am
I have that book sitting on my Amazon wishlist. I have been working on diversifying my classroom library. It is sadly a gradual process since it is only as funds allow so I still have a lot of books sitting in my -always growing – wish list. I have to remind myself, however, that my library has changed a lot since I inherited my classroom years ago and is now much more diverse than it once was.
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June 26, 2024 at 9:25 am
THANK YOU for doing this! I wish I had an understanding and accepting teacher like you when I was in school!
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June 27, 2024 at 9:47 am
It is a no-brainer to me. Children should see themselves reflected in the book that they are reading, they should see representations of their communities, they should see all of the possibilities that life holds. I only regret that it is such a gradual process since I largely self-fund the expansion of my classroom library.
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June 27, 2024 at 4:45 pm
I just adore you.
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June 27, 2024 at 9:34 am
I’m just glad to hear your school district would allow you to read it!
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June 27, 2024 at 9:51 am
As a preschool teacher, I am not an employee of the school district, and I work in a preschool that aligns with my own values. However, I am happy to report that the school district my own children attend also aligns with those values.
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