Reviewed by Deborah Menkart Review Source: Cotton Quilts Book Authors: Man Up! by Riley Campbell, London Jones, and Shirelle Hurt, illustrated by Joy Ingram. Dedicated to “all the boys who are told they can’t be themselves” — this is the book we have been waiting for. Not since William’s Doll have I seen a book […]
Orange for the Sunsets
Reviewed by Meena Khorana, Ph.D. Review Source: Africa Access Book Author: Set in 1972, Orange for the Sunsets is a welcome novel on the expulsion of Indians from Uganda under the regime of President Idi Amin, a topic that has been the subject of only one other adolescent novel about Africa in recent years (Shenaaz Nanji’s Child […]
I Am Not a Number
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: I recommend Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer’s I Am Not A Number, illustrated by Gillian Newland. Dupuis is a member of the Nipissing First Nation. In 1928, Dupuis’s grandmother, Irene Couchie Dupuis, was taken to a residential school in Canada. “Residential” is […]
This Land Is My Land
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Among my favorite books is George Littlechild’s This Land Is My Land, published in 1993 by Children’s Book Press. Written and illustrated by Littlechild, the book won the Jane Addams Peace Award. The title, of course, is familiar. Across the United States, in schools […]
They She He Me: Free to Be!
Reviewed by Ashleigh Williams Review Source: School Library Journal Book Author: The authors have succeeded in creating a gorgeous and much-needed picture book about pronouns and gender fluidity. Rich watercolor artwork, done in a spectrum of blue and green jewel tones, depicts a line of smiling people, each with a different skin color and all sporting […]
Hair Love
Reviewed by Breanna McDaniel Review Source: Shelf Awareness Book Author: Matthew A. Cherry wears many hats as a film director, producer and editor. With his debut picture book, Hair Love, he can now add children’s book author to that list. A colorful collaboration with illustrator Vashti Harrison (Little Leaders), Hair Love was inspired by an animated short of the […]
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