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BIG FEELINGS

  Knopf Books for Young Readers | 978-0525579748   It’s been just over a year since the world and our regular routines were upended by COVID-19. Schools closed without warning, store shelves emptied, travel, events, and getting together with our friends all but shut down. It’s been a year of adapting, adjusting, and learning to… Read more »

Milo Imagines the World

G.P. Putnam’s Sons | ISBN 978-0399549083 Readers have been waiting almost three years for the next book by the Newbery Award-winning picture book duo Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson, and it’s finally here: MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD. It’s a beautiful book that feels like the perfect companion to LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET…. Read more »

A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympic Games

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 978-1328580795   Did you know that in 1948, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann organized the first sports competition involving WWII veterans with spinal cord-related injuries? And did you know that twelve years later, in 1960, those very games (called the Stoke Mandeville Games) were played in Rome, Italy and later renamed and recorded… Read more »

The Most Beautiful Thing

Carolrhoda Books | 978-1541561915 by Kao Kalia Yan, illustrated by Khoa Le   “My grandmother is so old, no one knows how old she is. Not me, not my big sister Dawb, not our older cousin, Lei. My father waits patiently when we try to guess her age. He is my grandma’s ninth and youngest… Read more »

There Is a Rainbow

Chronicle Books | 978-1797211664   What’s on the other side of a moment? A feeling? A day? “On the other side of the screen, there is a school. On the other side of a window, there is a neighbor… On the other side of a storm, there is a rainbow.” It’s been just under a… Read more »

Dictionary for a Better World

Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z  Carolrhoda Books | 978-1541557758   Between the book’s covers you’ll find —  for each letter of the alphabet — one or more thoughtful poems written by poets Irene Latham and Charles Waters and inspired by “words for a better world”. Feel free… Read more »

The Suitcase

The Suitcase                                                                                                          … Read more »