Hot Dog! – Perfect Picture Book Friday

As I read HOT DOG!, I felt my mom peering over my shoulder. I...
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Hiding in Plain Sight – Perfect Picture Book Friday

* I’m excited to feature this fabulous nonfiction picture book, one that will keep...
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Kaho’olawe – Perfect Picture Book Friday

* When we review our individual pasts, it can be difficult to recall painful...
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Love in the Library – Perfect Picture Book Friday

When I first heard Maggie Tokuda-Hall talk about her book based on her grandparents,...
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King of Ragtime – Perfect Picture Book Friday

In my early teens, ©️I learned to play The Entertainer, loving its rhythm and...
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Jump At the Sun – Perfect Picture Book Friday

I didn’t know much about Zora Neale Hurston, except for the fact that I’d...
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The Pig War – Perfect Picture Book Friday

Yes, it’s hard to believe that we nearly went to war over a pig,...
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T — Perfect Picture Book Friday

For National Poetry Month, who better to feature than the marvelous, lyrical picture book...
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Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb! – Perfect Picture Book Friday

Connect. Moved. Dreamed. Speak. Loved. Graduated. Organize. Improve. Honor. Listen. Campaigned. Represent. Traveled. Voted....
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre – Perfect Picture Book Friday

Once upon a time near Tulsa, Oklahoma, prospectors struck it rich in the oil...
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