Hello, friends! Our book today is The Wedding Portrait by Innosanto Nagara, a lesson in civil disobedience drawn from a personal moment in the author’s life. In a home, there is a wedding portrait... well, not quite. It is actually a photograph clipped from a newspaper, but it does show the author and his wife … Continue reading The Wedding Portrait (Innosanto Nagara)
Hello, friends! Our book today is Rosa, written by Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier, the story of Rosa Parks’s famous act of defiance and the fire it lit in the Civil Rights movement. Rosa Parks is a seamstress, an activist, and a well-respected woman in her town of Montgomery, Alabama. One December afternoon, … Continue reading Rosa (Nikki Giovanni)
Hello, friends! Today, we read Miss Paul And The President: The Creative Campaign For Women's Right To Vote, written by Dean Robbins and illustrated by Nancy Zhang, a biography that tells the abbreviated story of Alice Paul, noted suffragist and women's rights activist, and her unconventional methods for raising support for women's right to vote. … Continue reading Miss Paul And The President: The Creative Campaign For Women’s Right To Vote (Dean Robbins)
Hello, everybody! Our book today is Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, written by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin, a funny yet relevant barnyard tale of civil disobedience. Farmer Brown has never seen such a thing, and never heard it either: cows that type. The cows have gotten their hooves on an old … Continue reading Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Doreen Cronin)
Hello, friends! Today, we read A Is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara, a children's guide to human rights, equality, and civil disobedience. As with any alphabet book, the reader is taken through their ABC's, this time using progressive subjects and topics to illustrate each letter. For instance, E is for Environmental Justice, L for LGBTQ … Continue reading A Is For Activist (Innosanto Nagara)
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