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[BHE 505] More Ebook Haul
Myra here. I have been on an Overdrive marathon over the past several weeks. Here is my haul, thus far. Let me know if you’ve read any of them, and whether there are more titles I should be on the […]
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Review: Batpig: When Pigs Fly
Gary Yorkshire is a regular pig. A pig, fuzzy pig. He lives in a big city and enjoys spending time with his friends Carl the fish and Brooklyn the bat. One day, Gary is involved in a rather unusual accident […]
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Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo
Published by Tommy Nelson Summary: When Opal Lee’s great grandson asks her for a story, she looks around their Juneteenth celebration and tells the kids the history of the holiday. People in Texas didn’t learn about the end of slavery […]
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Crushes of the Week: January 23-29, 2022
This week’s crushes: Ready for the Spotlight by Jaime Kim (Candlewick Press, January 2022) Can You Hear Me? by Ekaterina Trukhan (Milky Way Picture Books, November 2021) Rock and Roll by Hazel Terry (Tiny Owl Publishing, February 2022) Little Pea’s Grand Journey by Davide Cali […]
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[Saturday Reads] A Dutch Colonialist Perspective on The Spice Islands Natives by Maria Dermoût
Myra here. Every Saturday we hope to share with you our thoughts on reading and books. We thought that it would be good practice to reflect on our reading lives and our thoughts about reading in general. While on occasion, […]
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Review: The House At The Edge of Magic
When all is lost, sometimes life can surprise you and bring you strawberries. That’s what happens to Nine, an orphaned pickpocket who struggles to escape her life of poverty in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. Her luck takes a […]
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Evicted! The Struggle for the Right to Vote by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Charly Palmer
Published by Calkins Creek Summary: When a Black man was falsely found guilty of murder by an all-white jury in 1959, the Black community of Fayette County, Tennessee began a voter registration movement. Led by John McFerren and Harpman Jameson, […]
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Endpapers for the end of your week!
From Love Is For Roaring by Mike Kerr and Renata Liwska (Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2022) This post contains affiliate links. For more information, visit my policies & disclosures page. January 28, 2022 at 11:32AM noreply@blogger.com (Mel Schuit)
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[Poetry Friday] A Children’s Anthem For Change
Myra here. Thank you to dear Irene Latham at Live Your Poem for hosting this week. This year, we hope to feature books that fit any of the following criteria: Postcolonial literature and/or [pre/post] revolutionary stories Stories by indigenous / first-nation […]
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The Best Picture Books of 2020
A list of the best picture books for kids.The Children’s Book Review We’ve been dying to find a spare moment to share our picks for the best picture books of 2020! Yes, you heard right. Good things come to those […]
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