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Crazy quilts are unique and innovative quilts created from scraps of materials. My hope is for a world that uses all the scraps, rough cut diamonds and hidden treasures. I blog to make IPOC authors and their works more accessible.
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When You Get Lit : And Burn
I’ve been struggling with a topic for this essay for weeks now with my mind flooding with memories from my 12 years as a classroom teacher. I could just write a book and fill it with faces and their stories. I want to document my first principal, the one who hired white teachers in the […]
book review: The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
May 15, 2019
Title: The Field Guide to the North American Teenager Author: Ben Philippe date: Balzer + Bray/Alloy; January 2019 main character: Norris Kaplan young adult romantic fiction Many think all resistance is good. Politically, it is certainly necessary to pushback again agendas that are oppressive, inequitable or unjust. I find that on a personal level, my […]
SundayMorningReads
May 12, 2019
Congratulations to Naomi Shihab Nye who was recently name the U.S. Young People’s Poet Laureate.! Debbie Reese recently called attention to the International Literacy Association’s (ILA) Choices reading list. She blogged about the problem and also tweeted about it. The blog post describes the list by stating “Our newly released 2019 ILA Choices reading lists […]
a brief look at HOME IS A WINDOW
May 4, 2019
Stephanie Parsley Ledyard is from Texas. Her first book, Pie is for Sharing was a Kirkus Best Picture book of 2018. It was illustrated by Jason Chin. Home is a Window, illustrated by Chris Sasaki, is her second picture book. Sasaki’s website describes him as “an animation art director and illustrator living in Oakland, California.” […]
May 2019: New Releases
May 3, 2019
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4 May The Chosen (Contender) by Taran Matharu. Feiwel and Friends. ages 12-18 SFF Throughout history, people have vanished with no explanation. A group of teenagers are about to discover why. Cade is settling into a new boarding school, contemplating his future, when he finds himself transported to another realm. He soon discovers their new […]
Asian Pacific Islander History Month
May 2, 2019
Any time is a good time to find a new favorite author! May is a good time to discover a new Asian Pacific Islander History author! And, it’s a good time for me to update my list! I haven’t updated this list in a while, so please check closely. Obvious names could easily be missing. […]
book review: Front Desk
April 22, 2019
title: Front Desk author: Kelly Yang date: Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic); 2018 main character: Mia Tang middle grade realistic fiction Front Desk is based in Kelly Yang’s real life experiences, making it an #ownvoices novel. In the Author’s Notes, she explains how situations in the story evolved from her growing up and helping her […]
A More Economic View
April 19, 2019
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I think my book reviews have consumed more of my energy than any of my other types of posts. I don’t mean that in the sense that they are the most time consuming (which they are) but because they’re the posts I work hardest to get right. I think when I first began writing them, […]
Tuesday Musings
April 9, 2019
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I missed my Sunday posting, but there are just a few things on my mind. This weekend, Dr. Debbie Reese will deliver the 2019 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, “An Indigenous Critique of Whiteness in Children’s Literature.” The event is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For those of us who cannot attend, a livestream will […]
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