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    Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music – 2016 Pura Belpre Illustrator Award

    Erika Thulin Dawes, February 15, 2016 | Awards

    Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Winner of the 2016 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Written by Margarita Engle and Illustrated by Rafael López Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015 Grades PreK – 6 Book Review “On an island of music / in a city of drumbeats / the drum dream girl […]

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    The Year We Learned to Fly: Teaching Ideas for the Highly-Anticipated Companion to The Day You Begin

    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.

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    2022 Newbery and Pura Belpré Award winner: The Last Cuentista

    Grace Enriquez, February 22, 2022 | Awards, Book Reviews, Fiction, Fiction Chapter Books, Novels

    Donna Barba Higuera’s Newbery Award and Pura Belpré Award winning novel nimbly mixes Spanish and English and draws from various storytelling genres to do what speculative fiction does best - imagine the latent possibilities in a given society, challenge readers to contemplate the promises and risks, and invite us to form new understandings about the world we live in now.

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    Delicious Family Memories: May Your Life be Deliciosa

    Denise Davila, January 31, 2022 | Announcements, Awards, Book Reviews, Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books

    Written by Michael GenhartIllustrated by Loris LoraPublished by Cameron + Company, 2021ISBN # 978-1951836221Grades PreK – 3 Book ReviewWhat kinds of food do you associate with family celebrations and holidays? In this visually appetizing Pura Belpré honor book, author Michael Genhart and illustrator Loris Lora welcome readers to a Mexican American family home inspired by […]

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    Caribbean Creatures Sure to Spook and Delight Young Readers in Looking for a Jumbie

    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.

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    Text Sets in Action: Instructional Models for Text Sets in The Classroom Bookshelf

    Erika Thulin Dawes, May 11, 2021 | Announcements, Classroom & Curricular Ideas

    This week, we’re announcing the publication of Mary Ann and Erika’s book, Text Sets in Action: Pathways Through Content Area Literacy. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that text sets are a primary tool that we recommend in a literature-based curriculum. In this blog entry, we revisit some examples of text sets in action in previous blog entries, showcasing the potential of the instructional models to differentiate and deepen students’ learning and as a vehicle to explore multiple perspectives and develop critical literacies.

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    Connecting the Past and Present through Poetry: Teaching Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

    Erika Thulin Dawes, April 6, 2021 | Poetry

    Children’s Literature Legacy Award Winner Nikki Grimes builds powerful connections between the past and present in her anthology featuring women poets of the Harlem Renaissance and her accompanying innovations on these poems. Use the poem pairings of this thought-provoking book across the school year to highlight the voices and experiences of Black women and girls or dive into the collection as a whole; either approach yields important insights into the human experience and forefronts the boundaries imposed by racism and sexism.

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    Hearing the Melodies of Classmates with Your Name is a Song

    Erika Thulin Dawes, September 14, 2020 | Announcements, Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books

    “I’m not coming back ever again.” A young girl stomps out her anger and frustration as she walks with Momma at the end of the first day of school. The source of her distress? No one could pronounce her name. “Not even the teacher?” queries Momma? As they pass by a street musician, Momma offers some advice: “Tell her your name is a song.”

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    2020 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner: Dancing Hands

    Grace Enriquez, February 16, 2020 | Awards, Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books

    Winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, Dancing Hands tells the extraordinary tale of a young Venezuelan girl whose musical talents helped people find respite amidst the tumult of life.

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    Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride

    Grace Enriquez, April 8, 2019 | Fictionalized Biography, Nonfiction, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books

    “Have you ever been told you are not enough?” With this opening line, author-cartoonist Joel Christian Gill grabs the attention of readers of all ages and introduces us to the legendary Bessie Stringfield, the first African American woman to ride solo across the United States on a motorcycle.

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