Kirk Cameron plans to launch a kids’s ebook about delight on the primary day of June, however don’t count on to see it featured at any LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations.

The Christian actor and creator gave a sneak peek at “Pride Comes Before the Fall,” his second kids’s title revealed by Brave Books, at his studying final weekend on the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“This is a story called ‘Pride Comes Before the Fall,’ and it’s a story about a tiger named Valor and his partner named Kevin. They need to learn the lesson of humility,” Mr. Cameron informed the group of fogeys and kids, as proven on Facebook video.

He added that “this book comes out on June 1. But it’s not June yet.”

Brave Books, a conservative kids’s writer, had no touch upon whether or not the ebook’s unveiling was timed to Pride Month, the annual June celebration that includes parades, festivals and concert events in addition to ebook lists and publications with LGBTQ themes.

The American Library Association acknowledges June as Rainbow Book Month, a “nationwide celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, genderqueer, queer, intersex, agender and asexual community.”

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The affiliation additionally sponsors the annual Stonewall Book Awards “for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/ transgender experience,” which features a kids’s and younger grownup class.

Brave Books in February launched a 14-city kids’s library tour that includes Mr. Cameron and different conservative authors, pushing again on the rising reputation of library-sponsored Drag Queen Story Hour readings for kids.

Mr. Cameron’s subsequent look is scheduled for Saturday on the Central Library in Seattle.

We are excited to satisfy the BRAVE households in Seattle at our future story hour on May twenty seventh! We wish to acknowledge and thank the Seattle Public Library (SPL) for permitting us to apply our first Amendment Rights.

See you on the library quickly! https://t.co/zb665Ez31F</ p>— BRAVE BOOKS (@BraveBooksUS) May 12, 2023

Mr. Cameron appeared Saturday with evangelist Franklin Graham to learn his first kids’s ebook, “As You Grow,” a Christian-themed work that “teaches kids how to grow in wisdom through the fruit of the spirit.”

About 1,000 mother and father and kids turned out to listen to Mr. Cameron, who gave two readings and signed books, mentioned Zac Bell, chief of employees at Brave Books.

Brave Books mentioned it contacted greater than 50 libraries final 12 months to see if any would sponsor a studying by Mr. Cameron; they declined or ignored the request.

The writer has as a substitute rented public rooms for Mr. Cameron’s readings, which usually draw massive crowds of fogeys and kids.

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