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Age: Preschool-1st grade
Emotions: Unexplained grouchiness
Family: Two sisters
One sister wakes up with boundless energy and enthusiasm for the day and the other sister wakes up feeling grouchy. While the older sister offers suggestion after suggestion for activities, the younger sister cannot get out of her grumpy fog. That is, until the older sister takes a moment to ask and listen to her little sister.
Emotions: Unexplained grouchiness
Family: Two sisters
One sister wakes up with boundless energy and enthusiasm for the day and the other sister wakes up feeling grouchy. While the older sister offers suggestion after suggestion for activities, the younger sister cannot get out of her grumpy fog. That is, until the older sister takes a moment to ask and listen to her little sister.
Age: Kindergarten-3rd grade
Identity: Brown-skinned girl with thick black locks
Identity, author: Iranian American, Palestinian American
Identity, illustrator: African American
A stunning presentation about loving your brown skin amidst words meant to belittle and demean. Several recently published picture books celebrate BIPOC, especially regarding the shade of one's skin. Modir and Kashou provide this celebration within a child-centric plot that celebrates a little girl's love of colors and coloring and how that can extend to the color of her skin. When a playground bully snidely declares that she doesn't like brown and that Zahra is too dark, her parents uplift her with stories of successful brown people in her life and throughout history.
Identity: Brown-skinned girl with thick black locks
Identity, author: Iranian American, Palestinian American
Identity, illustrator: African American
A stunning presentation about loving your brown skin amidst words meant to belittle and demean. Several recently published picture books celebrate BIPOC, especially regarding the shade of one's skin. Modir and Kashou provide this celebration within a child-centric plot that celebrates a little girl's love of colors and coloring and how that can extend to the color of her skin. When a playground bully snidely declares that she doesn't like brown and that Zahra is too dark, her parents uplift her with stories of successful brown people in her life and throughout history.
Age: 1st-3rd grade
Tough Issues: Bigoted/demeaning graffiti
Word spreads about the bad-something that was written in the girl's bathroom at school, changing the entire emotional climate of the school. Through art, one teacher encourages his class to paint a mural in the bathroom. While some books might triumphantly end on this good note, Campbell looks a little bit deeper at the lingering effects of the bad-something. That it was still somewhere deep underneath and not completely gone, but the children had changed it with their good-somethings.
A really remarkable look at the power of something so little and how it can quickly get out-of-hand without properly recognizing and recovering from it. And Luyken's artwork is astounding as always.
Tough Issues: Bigoted/demeaning graffiti
Word spreads about the bad-something that was written in the girl's bathroom at school, changing the entire emotional climate of the school. Through art, one teacher encourages his class to paint a mural in the bathroom. While some books might triumphantly end on this good note, Campbell looks a little bit deeper at the lingering effects of the bad-something. That it was still somewhere deep underneath and not completely gone, but the children had changed it with their good-somethings.
A really remarkable look at the power of something so little and how it can quickly get out-of-hand without properly recognizing and recovering from it. And Luyken's artwork is astounding as always.
Age: Preschool-2nd grade
Music: Rap
Identity, author: Bahamian-Canadian
Identity, illustrator: Ghanian-Canadian
Celebrate the warm embrace of a rap cypher: a welcoming and collaborative performance space where rappers creatively feed off of each others' contributions. We begin with an invitation for the listener to join in the fun for the first time, to be brave and dive into the sound. The rhythm of the fierce and poetic text is extremely catchy, flowing like a river, vacillating between raucous and calm.
Music: Rap
Identity, author: Bahamian-Canadian
Identity, illustrator: Ghanian-Canadian
Celebrate the warm embrace of a rap cypher: a welcoming and collaborative performance space where rappers creatively feed off of each others' contributions. We begin with an invitation for the listener to join in the fun for the first time, to be brave and dive into the sound. The rhythm of the fierce and poetic text is extremely catchy, flowing like a river, vacillating between raucous and calm.
Age: Preschool-2nd grade
Nature: Water
Author & Illustrator: Japanese
Stunning, breathtaking impressionist-inspired oil paintings depict the mysterious and essential beauty of water. There appears to be a lot of pee-pee haters out there, but I love the whimsical, childlike presence it adds to this poetic musing of water.
Nature: Water
Author & Illustrator: Japanese
Stunning, breathtaking impressionist-inspired oil paintings depict the mysterious and essential beauty of water. There appears to be a lot of pee-pee haters out there, but I love the whimsical, childlike presence it adds to this poetic musing of water.
Age: Kindergarten-2nd grade
Identity: Prosthetic leg
Location: Afghanistan
With no chairs to sit on at school, Aria cannot focus through the discomfort from her new helper leg as she sits on the ground. At first dispirited, she is determined to stay in school and find a solution: by building a bench! Aria's persistence and her community's support is heart-warming and inspiring. Just like in The Library Bus, Rahman has an amazing talent for connecting true Afghani life (of which he draws from his own lived experiences) to universal childhood emotions and experiences.
Identity: Prosthetic leg
Location: Afghanistan
With no chairs to sit on at school, Aria cannot focus through the discomfort from her new helper leg as she sits on the ground. At first dispirited, she is determined to stay in school and find a solution: by building a bench! Aria's persistence and her community's support is heart-warming and inspiring. Just like in The Library Bus, Rahman has an amazing talent for connecting true Afghani life (of which he draws from his own lived experiences) to universal childhood emotions and experiences.
Age: Preschool-2nd grade
Family: Time together
Tough Issues: COVID-19 pandemic
This pandemic blows so hard that for survival-purposes many adults/parents/caregivers have kept their heads down to plow through it. However, through the indoor-living experience of one school-age girl, this book invites readers to remember their experiences--both the good and the bad--and to reflect and process them in a healthy way.
An excellent read-aloud with bright and bold illustrations and simple text.
Family: Time together
Tough Issues: COVID-19 pandemic
This pandemic blows so hard that for survival-purposes many adults/parents/caregivers have kept their heads down to plow through it. However, through the indoor-living experience of one school-age girl, this book invites readers to remember their experiences--both the good and the bad--and to reflect and process them in a healthy way.
An excellent read-aloud with bright and bold illustrations and simple text.
Age: High School+
A candid look at modern-day racism from the perspective of a black queer woman. Oluo finds the perfect balance between hard-hitting personal stories that expertly weave into her plea for white people to recognize their inherent racism that has been manifested by centuries of racist policy and politics, listen to people of color, and finally start to share their load towards ending systemic racism and seeking a brighter, equitable future.
A candid look at modern-day racism from the perspective of a black queer woman. Oluo finds the perfect balance between hard-hitting personal stories that expertly weave into her plea for white people to recognize their inherent racism that has been manifested by centuries of racist policy and politics, listen to people of color, and finally start to share their load towards ending systemic racism and seeking a brighter, equitable future.
Age: Infant-Toddler
Identity: Biracial baby--black father, white mother, biracial sister
Family: Mom, Dad, Grandma, Sister, Baby
One by one, a family participates in baby's bedtime routine including bubbles, a bath, a dance, and a big family snuggle. Large pages and simple text make this a perfect storytime book.
Identity: Biracial baby--black father, white mother, biracial sister
Family: Mom, Dad, Grandma, Sister, Baby
One by one, a family participates in baby's bedtime routine including bubbles, a bath, a dance, and a big family snuggle. Large pages and simple text make this a perfect storytime book.