When it's June, it's Pride Month! This is a time of celebration for the LGBTQIA+ community and a time to push for continued acceptance and equal rights. As awareness grows, new challenges such as book bans emerge. One thing remains true for young children: Diverse books matter, and LGBTQIA+ books matter. They teach children to understand and respect the LGBTQIA+ people in their communities. And readers who are LGBTQIA+, or whose family members are LGBTQIA+, deserve to see themselves in their own children's books.