Review: New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer and Eric Velasquez
Ella Mae’s shoes are always hand-me-downs from her cousin Charlotte. When the new-used pair from Charlotte don’t fit, Ella Mae and her mother go to Johnson’s for Ella Mae’s first […]
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Five Finds – The Music Within
And we’re back with another collection of themed picture books! Continuing with this month’s performing arts theme, today we’re looking at picture books that celebrate musical expression. I am passionate […]
Review: The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings
The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson; art by Kelly Mellings. Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication date: spring 2015 Why you need to read this graphic novel: […]
Review: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a […]
Review: Black Apple by Joan Crate
Black Apple by Joan Crate Published by Simon & Schuster Source: publisher This is what the publisher says (I received an ARC, so the back copy on my book might […]
Farah Mendlesohn at Green College, March 11, 2016
The Rhetorics of Fantasy and the Rhetorics of Social Justice That is the title of the talk Farah Mendlesohn, Professor and Head of Department in the Department of English, Communication, Film […]
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