Reviewed by Sophia Hines Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: My hands tell a story if you listen. In My Hands Tell a Story by Kelly Starling Lyons, a grandmother and granddaughter stand in the kitchen making cinnamon bread together with the sun shining through the window. While making bread, the grandmother tells granddaughter […]
Ten Beautiful Things
Reviewed by Catherine Taunton Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: None of this was easy. Maybe it would never be easy. But she belonged with Gram now. She belonged here now. This place wasn’t empty and neither was she. In Ten Beautiful Things by Molly Beth Griffin, the main character, Lily, goes through a […]
Just Like Grandma
Reviewed by Amy Buckelew-Foster Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: Together they flutter like the most beautiful butterflies Grandpa has ever seen, until the sun dips below the tree line and he calls them in for fried chicken. Just Like Grandma is a beautiful story of a multigenerational Native American family in a contemporary […]
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness Into Light
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Before you read Tim Tingle’s Saltypie to your child or students in your classroom or library, spend some time studying what Tingle says at the end of the book, on the pages titled “How Much Can We Tell Them?” There, you’ll learn a little […]
With Lots of Love
Reviewed by Estella Frias Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: She missed Abuela’s warm tortillas and the way they smelled sweet and fresh, like the damp earth after a soft rain. She missed the pretty song of her language. With Lots of Love tells Rocio’s riveting story about the struggle and newness of immigrating […]
A-Train Allen
Reviewed by Vanessa Williams Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Quick! Hurry! Lickety-split! Dash over and read Lesley Younge’s A-Train Allen, a darling story that reads more like a hero’s errand and less like a hero’s journey because we’re not beleaguered with unwelcome visitors like devastating setbacks or insurmountable obstacles. Simultaneously imaginative and grounded, A-Train […]