I have a feeling tht this young genius cartographer would be a perfect fit for our current theme: The Selected Works of T. I borrowed this a year ago but never got a chance to finish the book, but the novel has always haunted me.

Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos. When I discovered that this was a book about depression, I decided to save my reading of the book for this current theme: Dr. The Mighty Lalouche by Matthew Olshan and the amazing Sophie Blackall, Maude: The Not-so-Noticeable Shrimpton by Lauren Child and illustrated by Trisha Krauss.

Smith, Jr.Ĭhopsticks by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Scott Magoon, Exclamation Mark ! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. I dreamt… a book about hope by Gabriela Olmos and Yetsa’s Sweater by Sylvia Olsen and illustrated by Joan Larson.Ībe Lincoln’s Dream by Lane Smith and I am the World by Charles R. Here are a few books that I feel would fit into our theme quite nicely. I confess that this makes things considerably easy for me since I am handling a course on Using Multicultural Children’s Literature to Promote Socio-emotional learning in the Classroom. And so I would probably make full use of the text-sets that I will be bringing in calss every week. Multicultural titles defined as: children’s books that represent lifestyle and cultural beliefs of as many children as possible (culled from Lukens, Smith, & Coffel, 2013).

Voices of the silenced: immigrants, LGBT community, women’s voices (her story), the elderly, the differently-abled, the socio-economically disadvantaged.The Outliers in the community – those who do not seem to fit in and may be bullied/ostracized as a function of this.Celebration of diversity, being different, taking pride in one’s uniqueness.This week is extra special as we are launching our new bimonthly theme until end of April: Rainbow Colors of Diversity: Voices of the Silenced Widget courtesy of the talented IphigeneĮssentially, we are looking for the following books that have these themes: Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC)Įvery week, we share the books that have hunted us down and found their way into our bookshelves.Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.

I Dreamt . . . by Gabriela Olmos