What a great way to learn about lgbtqia+ history and culture. I loved all the illustrations and designs!

Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration is an exuberantly illustrated seek-and-find book about celebrating Pride. Released 30th April by Quarto on their becker & meyer! imprint, it's 64 pages and is available in hardcover format.

The illustrations by Diego Blanco are intricate and colorful. On the right margin of each two page spread are numerous small details to hunt and find. Some of them are definitely well hidden and not at all trivial to locate. There are 11 scenes in all, and there are some common details (each contains a unicorn, somewhere!), but each also has unique features and history.

There are a few issues with *ahem* liberties taken with historical versions of myths and legends (Ganymede for example), but overall it's a fun, informative, irreverent, campy "I-spy" type book.

Four stars. It would make a good choice for public library acquisition, gift giving, or home use. Content is appropriate for all-ages.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This book is so cute and fun! I loved the illustrations and I learned a lot. A definite must have for the library!

A fun, playful way to learn more about LGBTQ+ history and key figures. I particularly appreciated the background information on flags and the glossary. The art style is simplified enough that actually finding the items and people can be very tricky, though. I also wondered who wrote this book -- the credit says "illustrated by Diego Blanco" but I couldn't find any credit for the text. An entertaining gift idea for the queer people and allies you know.

Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration is both educational and fun! It's a short book (only about 33 pages) that start off with learning about queer historical figures... and then setting them amidst a landscape of their era (ish) so you can find them in the crowd! This is really cute and I'm glad it exists.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – becker & mayer! | Epic Ink for the eARC in exchange for review!

As a kid, I Spy books were my bread and butter. I loved looking through them and trying to find everything that it asked for then going back through to find the extras at the end, so this brought back a lot of memories.

With each seek-and-find being a different history of the LGBTQ+ community, it's a great way to learn about the people and things that made a difference over the years. It made it nice to learn while also having the reminder of what I liked in the past.

I would stay on that page until I could find everything. Yet, which I'm hoping is something that is better in print, sometimes the smaller items were so hard to find because they weren't clear on the page. Some items I'm not sure I found it's just that what I did see kinda looked like it and I wasn't seeing something that was more obvious.

At the end, it includes a history of pride flags which was nice as well as a glossary to explain some terms which could be great for people who are exploring in one way or another.

While the art was cute, there are times that I wish the people were a touch more representative of the figures they were supposed to be. Maybe it was part of the resolution from being an ARC, but everyone really felt the same to the point where they were times I thought I had found someone, just in a different position shown until I was proven wrong later.

Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for an ARC. All opinions here at my own.

This was a really fun and colorful seek-and-find book. It's honestly been ages since I've done a book version of these, though I do still play app variations of these puzzles from time to time! I also loved the informative side of this book too, and think its such a fun and exciting way to showcase queer history and pride. The art style was super fun, and the range of people and object to search for was amazing. I definitely want to see more books like this!

Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration is a delightful little book, packed with queer history. It champions and centers 2SLGBTQIA+ people across the centuries through short paragraphs and colorful illustrations. I wish there was less time spent on famous allies, since they took the space of many more queer icons that should be celebrated, like James Baldwin. Audre Lorde, or Lady Gaga.

This book was let down by the art style. The text and background appear rather bland, which is a shame considering how interesting the text was. It feels like this should have been a longer book with full-page illustrations and larger text that would better hold the attention of the reader.

I truly appreciate the existence of this book. I LOVED seek-and-find books when I was a child and I sure would have loved getting my hands on this. It normalises LGBT+ identities in a very age approbiate way and I would 100% buy this if I end up having kids.

lots of more information about lgbtq+ history than i thought would be, and very cute illustrations. a very fun book!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this book for free in exchange for my review! All opinions are my own.

This book exceeded my expectations because going into it I thought it was just a seek & find book. It is so much more than that! This is such a fun way to learn about LGBTQ+ history while having fun while doing so. The illustrations were very cute.

I love the internet joke about making things gayer. This item is good. But it could be gayer.

I've never really enjoyed Where's Waldo books. There's just not a lot to them. Find Waldo. Now do it again. And again. Hey, look, a sailboat. Okay, you're done. Like, where's the fun in that?

This is Where's Waldo but make it gay. And there's SO much more to it than that. This is an absolute celebration of gay history, with each page devoted to a different aspect. There's so many gems hidden in these beautifully illustrated pages, along with a brief synopsis and explanation of what has come before and why it still matters today.

This is so fun. I think you could read it through twice and still miss something.

I love playing Hidden Object games, so I was excited for this queer themed book version. Unfortunately, despite the author's clear good intentions, this is Seek-and-Find Rainbow Capitalism. Some of this is down to choices by Blanco that stem from limited knowledge or a failure to recognize where something might be more fraught than he thought. Some of it appears to be white-washing, or a lack of a more critical eye looking at patterns. There's also issues with the book's language choices, such as the use of "we" for specifics that may not be applicable to reader nor author. The decision to include allies both in all the different scenes and in their own dedicated scene is upsetting and might please allies but is hurtful to a lot of other people. Again, probably the best of intentions but that's not the effect and impact matters.

I have always loved seek & finds!! What a fun, creative, engaging way to learn about our community’s history! I love how after all of the puzzles there are common definition & flag meanings! I even learned more about myself and how I identify, giving me reassurance and a more sense of self.

This is a fun and engaging way to learn more about LGBTQ+ history and culture. The illustrations and cute and eye-catching. Each scene features a key that teaches abouut the history and then readers are encouraged to find the icon in the scene. A fun twist on the familair 'Where's Waldo" series. I especially love that the rainbow flag is hidden in each of the seek and find scenes.

Books like this provide information, encourage tolerance and inclusivity and instill pride in members of the community. I love it!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Well this is the best version of Where’s Waldo I’ve never seen. Pride - Adventures through History in the Queer Community takes us through different periods of time, giving us a list of characters we are to find after providing detailed backgrounds of each, along with a standardized unicorn/rainbow/butterfly on each illustration. Let me tell you.. I couldn’t switch the page until I’d located everything.

While taking us through different time periods, the illustrator also takes us through a few special parts of our community, such as activism and struggles, but also in the way we spend holidays and the allies we have in our lives. I could see this spread open on a coffee table with a few of my friends as we tried to find all the items in a scene. Very well done.

I was provided with an ARC of Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration: Adventure Through the History of the Queer Community in exchange for an unbiased review. I found this book immensely enjoyable. It cleverly combines the concept of a search-and-find book with informative content about LGBTQ+ terminology and individuals. This unique approach offers an engaging way to delve into LGBTQ+ history and contemporary issues. I highly recommend this book for personal exploration, and it would also serve as a valuable resource for teaching inclusive history and related subjects.

This was absolutely fun to do and informative to read at the same time. I enjoyed this a lot. Sometimes you need queer lighthearted things. It did put some openly queer people in the ally section (or made it sound like they were just allies), and the book isn't very accessible to those with visual issues. I struggled reading because the background colour and the letters were too similar and blurred together.

The "Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration" books is a fun and information way to share LGBTQIA+ icons throughout the ages. The seek and find activity itself can be a bit difficult because of the lack of detail on some of the figures, but overall it is an enjoyable and educational read.

This is so cute. I want it for my coffee table. I'm not sure that it's for children-- the text seems like a lot for kids of the usual Where's Waldo age-- but queer adults will delight in the nostalgia of the format. Maybe I'll bring it to show my GSA teens and see if it's a hit with them.