A joyfully poetic board book that delivers an ode to African American girls and the beauty of their curls. MeMorning Mirror Smile Shine bighair love This simple, playful, and beautiful board book stars four friends who celebrate the joy of their hairstyles from bouncing curls to swinging braids. Ruth Forman is the author of award-winning…
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Discover This Emotionally Stirring Picture Book; An Ode To Black and Brown Children Everywhere
Tami Charles pens a poetic, lyrical text that is part love letter, part anthem, assuring readers that they always have, and always will, matter. This powerful, rhythmic lullaby reassures readers that their matter and their worth is never diminished, no matter the circumstance: through the joy and wonder of their first steps and first laughs,…
This Picture Book Biography Will Captivate Young Readers With Aretha Franklin’s Story
Aretha Franklin was born to sing. The daughter of a pastor and a gospel singer, her musical talent was clear from her earliest days in her father’s Detroit church where her soaring voice spanned more than three octaves. Her string of hit songs earned her the title “the Queen of Soul,” multiple Grammy Awards, and…
If the morals you find in these pages aren’t exactly, well, moral…just don’t pay any attention to them!
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In this new edition of the classic companion to Tales for the Perfect Child, Sergio Ruzzier lends his signature humor to Florence Parry Heide and Sylvia Worth Van Clief’s delectably subversive fables. Genevieve is careless. Muriel is discontented. Phoebe is always putting off until tomorrow what she should…
A day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of one of the most well-known moments of the civil rights movement
I met Larry Dane Brimner in the mid 90s at children’s book circles in the National Council of teachers of English and the International Literacy Association. Following his work has given me a better perspective on my own self-identification and affinity group: African Americans, and our deep and complex history. Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 does…
Bonaparte Plays Ball! Another Margery Cuyler Hit! (plus a giveaway) — Writing for Kids (While Raising Them)
If you’ve been in children’s publishing for any length of time, then you know Margery Cuyler. Margery served as an executive editor for decades, at Holiday House, Marshall Cavendish and finally Two Lions before recently retiring. But she’s also a very accomplished author in her own right. Margery has published over 50 books for children, […]…
A Captivating Mystery as One Courageous Girl Searches For the Truth
From debut author Janae Marks comes a captivating mystery full of heart, as one courageous girl questions assumptions, searches for the truth, and does what she believes is right—even in the face of great opposition. A perfect book for fans of Front Desk and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook! “Enticing and enthralling.”…
Easy-to-Read Language and Lots of Illustrations make the Mia Mayhem Series a Great Introduction to Chapter Books
Mia goes up against a mighty robot in this sixth adventure of the Mia Mayhem chapter book series! Mia’s best friend, Eddie, has built an awesome robot that’s supposed to be a mighty cleaning machine! And at first, everything runs smoothly as the robot helps around the house and at regular school! But things quickly…
Fast moving, feel-good suspense novel will have middle schoolers, especially boys, turning the pages
Ocean’s 11 . . . with 11-year-olds, in a super stand-alone heist caper from Gordon Korman! In Swindle, by Gordon Korman, after a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle’s compound and recapture the card. There…
An Incredible Picture Book Reminding us it’s Cooler to be Kind
The “too-cool-for-school” third picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of The Bad Seed and The Good Egg, Jory John and Pete Oswald Everyone knows the cool beans. They’re sooooo cool. And then there’s the uncool has-bean . . . Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd—until one day the cool…
