It’s November again, so time to share my recommendations for a picture book to read each day of Native American Heritage Month. This year I’m back with 30 new titles. Added on to my lists from 2021 & 2022 & 2023, there are now 120 picture books (!) I have recommended for teaching about Native […]
Picture Books for the Spooky Season
It’s that time of year for some spooky reads & I found some new fun reads for the season this year! And in 2022, I shared my original list of some favorites…
Freedom to Read (Banned Books) Week
For the start of *Freedom to Read Week* I choose to put the focus on the main point of the activism week from the positive stance of what we’re promoting vs the negative actions of banning books and restricting access to stories and violating rights of readers to decide for themselves a reminder that one […]
Honoring Names at the Start of the School Year
Those first days are a critical time to set the tone for the whole rest of a school year. And one of the most important things to make sure to get right are students’ names. Someone’s name is an integral part of their identity, so ensuring classmates and teachers are using and pronouncing each student’s […]
AANHPI Heritage Month & A New Resource for #ClassroomBookADay
I have two main goals for summer work around supporting educators doing #ClassroomBookADay: Creating resources to make it easier to find and display high-quality books + continuing to share title recommendations in ways that will be helpful and timely. I have done a lot of thematic lists over the years, but they are usually more […]
An Inclusive Look at Author/ Illustrator Studies
I was asked in a #ClassroomBookADay 101 session to recommend author / illustrator studies that would provide more inclusive representation than what is often seen in schools. Requests for ideas for such studies frequently appear in librarian groups on Facebook, and the names that come up most often are straight, cis, white authors and illustrators. […]
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