The Big Book of Pride Flags is a Children’s book of 40-50 pages full of cute illustrations with easy-to-understand explanations of (in total) seventeen Pride flags. There is also a reading guide at the back to accompany your and your child’s reading experience. You get a short historical context, like the history of and the changes made to the Pride Flag. For most flags, there is a picture of what the flag looks like, when they were created, what the different colours stand for, and what sexuality or gender the flag represents. I liked it and I think this will be a beautiful learning experience for children.

One point I need to address though: they got the definition of “aromantic” right, i.e. “experiencing little to no romantic attraction”, but then go and use “lack of sexual attraction” as the definition of “asexuality” instead of simply using “experiencing little to no sexual attraction”, which is the preferred definition for many asexual people.

A very informative book that is easy to read and understand. Beautiful artwork throughout the book. Great resources to learn more about LGBTQ+ Flags and to start a conversation with children.

The Big Book of Pride Flags is a heart-warming and vibrant children's non-fiction that strives to teach kids the meanings and importance of the different pride flags, and includes short descriptions about each of the identities. As a queer person, I know how much I wish I was informed about LGBTQ+ identities. I truly hope queer kids will find this book and it helps them grow to become comfortable with their own identities.

I really liked this book. I learned a lot from it even though it's meant for kids. The pictures and words are clear and coherent. I think this would be a great read for adults and kids a like!

A great beginner's guide to the very basics of the most popular Pride flags and what the identities they stand for. Even as someone who is part of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I learned a few new things that I didn't know before. The artwork is stunning and I think this book would definitely hold the attention of most children.

Thank you to NetGalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for the ARC for review.

5 stars!

The Big Book of Pride Flags is a must-have read for all my friends with little ones! The book teaches about Pride and LGBTQIA+ flags with beautiful, fun illustrations, and quick, easy to understand facts. It's vital for children to know from a young age that they can be whoever they want to be, and look however they want to look. Individualism and self-exploration are important concepts that out little ones should be able to safely explore from an early age! And this is an informative read for adults, too! I learnt plenty I didn't know, such as the meaning of each colour in the rainbow flag.

This book is beautifully diverse. The illustrations are phenomenal. The opening illustration brought me so much joy! The drawings depict LGBTQIA+ people of all ages, sizes, and races, along with plenty of disabled rep! Anyone can be LGBTQIA+, and these beautiful illustrations effortlessly reinforce this. Not to mention, the main reason LGBTQIA+ people have rights today is thanks to black trans activists. The diverse art in this book is so, so important.

The book opens with an introduction about the Pride flag, how it was made, its history, and how the Modern Pride flag, came to be! It goes on to show each of the Pride flags, with cute illustrations and easy to understand explanations. The flags, sexualities and genders are explained in simple terms. They're easy to understand for children, and are easy to go back and revisit!

The book concludes with a Reading Guide, which asks questions such as, 'Why are these flags called 'Pride' flags?' to help open up a discussion about the book and its topic between adults and their little ones, and to help children engage with and advance their learning about the subject. Encouraging children to consider questions about why we refer to it as 'Pride' is a wonderful way to teach our little ones about love and inclusivity!

The final page consists of a blank flag template to let the kids design their own flag - it's a fun way to let them be creative!

The Big Book of Pride Flags is an informative, accessible, and exciting way to open up the conversation about Pride and LGBTQIA+ peoples between adults and their little ones. I can't wait to give a copy of this book to my niece!

An amazing nonfiction basic guide to Pride flags that would be perfect for little ones, middle grader, high school, or adult readers. I will be buying this in a heartbeat and recommending that my Library purchase it as well.

This book goes through the following Pride Flags and the origin of them from the date and person who made them. The pride flags are listed below. I agree with some other reviews saying that the title "The Big Book of Pride Flags" is misleading as it doesn't go over every single pride flag but is just an introduction to the majority of "well-known" flags for each community.

I will note that I really enjoyed the illustrations for each flag which *might* be the sole reason I buy a copy of this for myself. Also, there were some formatting issues, there were black boxes with text but they were blurry, so I couldn't read them.

Flags included:
Gilbert baker pride
Rainbow pride
Agender
Aromantic
Asexual
Bisexual
Demisexual
Gay (Achillean)
Genderfluid
Genderqueer
Intersex
Lesbian
Pansexual
Polysexual
Nonbinary
Transgender
Progress Pride

This was a nice little book about the pride flags, starting with the original pride flag created in 1978 to the more recent 2018 redesign. We also get a look at many of the flags in the pride community, what their colors mean, and how the people who use them identify (and what it means). It's all done in a very cute and simplistic way so that the information isn't too much to get through at once. In fact, I felt like I wanted even more information! It's a nice little introductory book for all ages

The Big Book of Pride Flags has become very useful for my local GSA club. We reference it often when speaking about different flags and labels, and what different colors represent and the flags histories.

Throughout June, GeekMom celebrates Pride Month with lots of LGBTQ content. Follow the Pride Month tag to find everything all in one space (including LGBTQ content from previous years) and keep checking back for more throughout the month. Today’s book review is The Big Book of Pride Flags, illustrated by Jem Milton.

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Does the number of different Pride flags seem to constantly grow to you too? That’s not that surprising really because the range of flags has indeed been growing constantly since the very first pride flag was designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978. If you’re not sure which flag is for agender and which is for aromantic (or what either of those two words means), then this is the book for you.

Filled with bright, colorful, and diverse illustrations, The Big Book of Pride Flags introduces 17 different pride flags from all across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. For each flag, we learn when it was created and by whom (if known), who it is for, and why each color was chosen. Did you know that the pansexual pride flag includes a pink stripe to represent attraction to women, a blue stripe to represent attraction to men, and a yellow stripe to represent attraction to non-binary genders; or that two different pride flags were only designed as recently as 2014? The end of the book features some discussion questions ideal for talking about pride with young readers, as well as a spot to design your own pride flag.

Written with young readers in mind and ideal for reading aloud, The Big Book of Pride Flags will help adults and kids alike gain an understanding of a vital element of the queer community and may help readers identify a part of themselves they never had a word for. I hope it one day sits on many library shelves in schools and communities, where those who need it will be able to immerse themselves in this most colorful part of what it means to be queer.

GeekMom received a copy of this title for review purposes.

I thought this book was adorable. I love it when adults can learn something from children’s books. I learned a lot about the different pride flags, and was super happy with the illustrations and how everything was explained. This was the first book I’ve read this Pride month, and I thought it was only fitting. I definitely recommend this for children’s be adults alike.

I received an ARC of The Big Book of Pride Flags from NetGalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers in exchange for an honest review. I wanted to read this as one of my child's favorite books is called Our Rainbow and goes over the colors of the Pride flag and what each of them mean. I love that this books takes it a step further by talking about all of the different Pride flags.

First, the illustrations are gorgeous! They are vibrant, eye-catching, and there's a lot of diversity among the people shown. It's definitely visually a book that I would want to add to my child's bookshelf.

There are a few issues. One small thing is how they discuss the history of the Rainbow flag and the different versions. They start off with the Gilbert Baker Pride flag, but then they circle back to newest iterations of the Progress Pride flags at the very end rather than keep them all together. One bigger thing is that they don't get the most recent version with the Intersex flag inclusion correct (it's missing the purple circle inside the yellow portion). I also wish the Asexual definition was more in line with the way the Aromantic was described because there isn't an implication that anything is lacking in Aromantic people.

I also think not crediting some of the flags (Aromantic, Pansexual, Polysexual in particular) to their creators is a choice. It seems heavily to be the ones created by Tumblr users - but their work is still being represented.

Overall, I love the idea. I definitely think it's a great book for helping to introduce the different identifies in the LGBTQIA+ community and what each flag represents. But there are definitely a few issues that I wish would get fixed.

Vibrant, colorful book exploring the gender and sexuality spectrum through its flags! After introducing three variations on the rainbow flag (Gilbert Baker's flag, the Rainbow Pride flag, and the Progress Pride flag), the book moves alphabetically through about a dozen other flags representing various LGBTQ+ communities. Each flag is depicted alongside diverse characters from that community, with a brief explanation of its history and what each color stands for. Back matter includes a longer explanation of the rainbow flag's history, some questions for readers to consider, and a "design your own flag" activity.

The only thing I found confusing (possibly an error in the ARC?) was that some of the illustrations for the Rainbow and Progress Pride flags appear to be switched - page 11 shows the Progress Pride flag while describing the Rainbow flag, while page 13 shows the Rainbow flag while talking about the Progress Pride flag. The book could also benefit from a table of contents, since some readers may wish to skip around to the flags they are most interested in.

Otherwise though, this book provides a simple and straightforward explanation of diverse genders and sexualities in the context of their beautiful flags. The book is appropriate for all ages, though probably geared more toward older elementary students than preschool; for younger readers, try "Pride Colors" by Robin Stevenson or "Our Rainbow" published by Little Bee Books.

I still think this was a wonderful way to start but I feel like some were not properly explained which is okay because maybe next time this can be improved. I didn’t understand the ending, were the kids supposed to draw their own flag?

Besides that, I did learn from this book and it’s definitely something that could work for kids especially with all the beautiful drawings. I loved seeing the representation there especially seeing a Hijabi!

This is very cute! And so important that kids know what these words mean and the importance of the colours in the flags. It’s certainly taught me somethings too!

This is a book all about pride flags, written for kids. The illustrations are friendly and quite lovely, and include a diverse range of people. The information in the book is easy to understand, but glosses over the unpleasant and divisive parts of LGBTQIA+ history; why did we need our own flags? What exactly was happening in the 80s that Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to make a flag? I understand that this book is for children, but I’d like at least a nod to the unpleasant parts of our history. Also, this book went into production presumably about a year ago, but it doesn’t use the most recent version of the progress pride flag, which includes the intersex flag. The end of the book includes text about the history (but none of the unpleasant history) of the Pride Flag, including the Progress Pride Flag and reads “The most recent iteration of the Progress Pride Flag also includes the Intersex Pride Flag, further widening its inclusivity”. There is an illustration of this flag ONLY here, but it does not include the purple circle on the yellow part of the flag. However, I was very pleasantly surprised to see the intersex flag featured at all! There is an error(?) on the genderfluid flag page where the person on the page is wearing a genderqueer flag, not the genderfluid flag. There is another error on the Modern Pride Flag page where it describes adding the black and brown stripes to represent queer people of color, but the page only shows the first rainbow flag. A third error is where an intersex person wearing the intersex flag as a t-shirt holds a gray cat, and there is movement from their hand petting the cat, but the way the movement is drawn, it looks like it breaks up the circle on the intersex flag. Additionally, the book chooses not to credit some flags with their original creators, presumably due to the ‘problematic’ views of some creators, which I disagree with. The pansexual flag, for example, is not credited to anyone, but we know that it was originally created by Jasper V. The book also characterizes a nonbinary person as “someone who might experience their gender as neither exclusively female or male, or who is in between or beyond both genders”, which is correct, but leaves out agender people (people without gender), and misses the main point of being nonbinary; a person who experiences their gender as being outside the standard binary of male vs. female. Also, why does the Transgender flag description explicitly describe Monica Helms as a transgender woman, where it did not call out any of of the other identities of creators? I agree, we should definitely uplift trans women’s voices, but if we’re going to do that, we should explain why we are doing that. Another criticism I have is that this book shows all the ways that Pride flags are commercialized into various products, with no hint of irony. All in all, I found this book to be a very friendly and diverse introduction to rainbow capitalism that ignores most of our history and issues as people. Perhaps some of the problem is that apparently this book wasn’t written ‘by’ anyone, it’s just published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers and illustrated by Jem Milton, so I guess the book was just written by a team of Content Creators who will go uncredited. Two stars, although the illustrations alone are five stars.

"The Big Book of Pride Flags" is a great book where you can learn about the different pride flags and what they stand for.

The book was very short, but still very informative and included a lot of different sexualities and identities, but not all.

The illustrations were really pretty and I liked that the artist made different flag related items, like a beanie and a phone case.

One thing that I would have liked a bit more is a bit more of an explanation on what the different sexualities and identities means instead of just explaining what the colour of the flag ment. None the less though, I still really liked this book!

I would definitely recommend this book to someone who is looking to learn more about the lgbtqia+ community! 🤍 It was so cute and I loved the artstyle of it!

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I found this to be a lovely, very informative book. This is a great introduction to different pride flags for kids or anyone really (I mean I’m in college and I learned quite a bit about the history of pride flags).
There was also plenty of representation of the characters, from skin color to age to disability, which was an amazing touch.
The illustrations in this book were bright, cheerful, and full of color which is great for A) the kids/age range this book was made for and B) to show that being a member of the LGBT+ is something to be proud of and celebrated.
I loved the design/setup of the book where we would get a page naming the flag and showing it in a cute illustration before having a small description on the next page.
There was a wide range of pride flags, but I especially love how there were multiple flags from the asexual/aromantic spectrum. As someone on the asexual spectrum, I really appreciated this.
My only critique is that I wished the queer pride flag had been shown/talked about. Not the rainbow pride flag, but the one with the pattern that goes black, blue, green, white, orange, pink, and then another black. Obviously, I know that not every pride flag can be talked about in this book, which is why I’m not taking off any stars, but I see the queer flag as another flag and identity that can be used as an umbrella term (just like the rainbow and progress flag).
Overall, this was a very informative book with colorful illustrations that really fit the vibes of the book and I would recommend it.

This is such an informative & adorable picture book! I loved that a vast amount of pride flags were explained. It was nice learning the specific meanings for the colors, since I only knew what a handful of them meant.

The “create your own pride flag” at the end of the book is such a cute concept & I can see kids being excited to be creative after seeing all of the beautiful illustrations. I love that books like this are becoming more available for children & adults alike.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this book before it’s publication!