Over the past 20 years, Vancouver Island author Robin Stevenson has written more than 30 books for young readers.

One of her preschool storybooks,_ Pride Puppy_, is an alphabet book that follows a family as they search for their lost dog at a Pride parade.

She never expected the story to end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The book landed there after a group of parents from Maryland sued the Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education in 2023, claiming the use of _Pride Puppy _— as well as eight other queer-inclusive books — in public school classrooms violated their religious freedoms, and they should be able to opt their children out of classes featuring such books.

[Portrait of Vancouver Island author Robin Stevenson.] Portrait of Vancouver Island author Robin Stevenson. (Subm

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