OUTER SPACE BEDTIME RACE was released by Random House Children’s Books in January 2015. Rob’s first picture book, COWBOY CHRISTMAS, was released by Golden Books/Random House in 2012. These days he teaches elementary kids about books and words and reading and writing, and writes books for those same kids. He worked for fifteen years in religious educational publishing as a writer, editor, editorial manager, and product designer. Rob is a picture book author, a writing teacher, a blogger, and a great uncle. Rob is not a cowboy, a ballerina, an alien, or a temper-tantrum-throwing toddler. Rob Sanders does not work as a telephone sales rep, a loading dock worker, a trophy engraver, or an editor. A Revolution is an essential and empowering civil rights story that every child deserves to hear. Movingly narrated by the Stonewall Inn itself, and featuring stirring and dynamic illustrations, Stonewall: A Building.

It would be the night when empowered members of the LGBTQ+ community-in and around the Stonewall Inn-began to protest and demand their equal rights as citizens of the United States. Though the inn had been raided before, that night would be different. In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raided by police in New York City. Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising with the very first picture book to tell of its historic and inspiring role in the gay civil rights movement.įrom Rob Sanders, author of the acclaimed Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, comes this powerful and timeless true story that will allow young readers to discover the rich and dynamic history of the Stonewall Inn and its role in the gay civil rights movement-a movement that continues to this very day.

Pride by Rob Sanders