Good Comics for Kids
Mary Ann Cappiello, March 19, 2018 | Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books
Islandborn/Lola: Edicion en espanol de ISLANDBORN Written by Junot Díaz, illustrated by Leo Espinosa Published by Dial Books ISBN: 978-0735229860 (English)/ ISBN: 978-0525552819 (Spanish) All Ages Book Review “Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was the school of faraway places.” But when her teacher asks her class to draw a picture of […]
Katie Cunningham, March 14, 2022 | Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books
A luminous companion to The Day You Begin, Woodson and López’s latest picturebook collaboration will remind children that they have the courage and capacity to “fly” past their most difficult times.
Katie Cunningham, October 25, 2021 | Book Reviews, Fiction, Fiction Picture Books
Looking for a Jumbie is Baptiste’s debut picturebook that brings the folklore of jumbies to young readers expanding the audience for these folkloric stories to bring children stories outside of European roots.
Grace Enriquez, November 11, 2019 | Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books
The titular question of this picturebook is one that anyone who appears or sounds different in a given social community has probably heard. Though simple in its phrasing, the implications for asking and answering “Where are you from?” are anything but simple.
Grace Enriquez, January 28, 2019 | Awards, Book Lists
Celebrating the 2019 ALA Youth Media Awards, along with other notable children's and young adult book awards, we've curated links to the recipients we've blogged about over the past 2 years.
Erika Thulin Dawes, January 22, 2019 | Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books
Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela thinks her name is too long - when she tries to write it, she needs to add an extension piece of paper in order to fit it on a single page. With the support of her father’s family stories, she comes to see how her name is actually the perfect fit for her, celebrating her both her connectedness and her uniqueness.
Mary Ann Cappiello, September 19, 2018 | Announcements, Classroom & Curricular Ideas
If you are a frequent Classroom Bookshelf reader, you have likely noticed that over the past year we have posted a range of entries about books that reflect the immigrant and refugee experience. This week’s Monday post was devoted to two books: La Frontera and Dreamers. Last spring, we wrote entries on The Night Diary, Escape from […]
Katie Cunningham, June 13, 2018 | Summer Reading
As we head into summer, we wanted to take the time to look back and look ahead to share trends we’ve noticed in our writing about children’s and young adult literature this year. We’ve loved each of the books we’ve written about this year. We’ve found that these great stories and works of nonfiction have […]
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