A review by lenabrary
Pride and Joy: A Story about Becoming an LGBTQIA+ Ally by Frank J. Sileo, Kate Lum-Potvin

emotional hopeful

5.0

 A fantastically laid out story of Joy, who wants to stand up for her brother Noah, who's gay. It teaches children that being an ally is not about big grand gestures and saying "I'm an ally!" but about putting your heart where your words are and doing something. Sometimes being an ally is running a bake sale and donating money, sometimes it's sharing cookies with someone and sometimes it is the hard thing - standing up and speaking out on someone's behalf. 

Joy's reaction to the hatred her brother faced felt very familiar to me and I found a lot of courage from the pages of this book to do my own standing up. 

The illustrations are colourful and joyful most of the time, aside from the scenes where Joy is sad or is facing other people's homophobia. The use of darker colours for those sections fits very well with the story being told.