tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64223328236705062352024-03-13T22:00:25.370-07:00CCBlogCObservations about books for children and teens from the Cooperative Children's Book CenterK T Horninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04505891463218329510noreply@blogger.comBlogger379125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-767706543062530282020-08-28T06:00:00.000-07:002020-08-28T06:00:01.383-07:00New CCBC Web Site Launches (and We're Retiring This Blog)<br />
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<br />Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-48175657291262553322020-08-24T06:00:00.000-07:002020-08-24T06:00:04.506-07:00Book of the Week: Everything Sad Is Untrue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Daniel Nayeri<br /><br />Published by Levine Querido, 2020<br />
368 pages<br />9781646140008<br /><br />Age 10 and older</h4>
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Nayeri’s poignant, engaging memoir begins with a vivid childhood
memory of a visit to his grandparents when he was still a little boy
knowns as Khorsou living in Iran. The world, as far as he knew then,
revolved around him. A few years later, Khosrou, his sister, and mother
flee Iran after his mother converts to Christianity, her life at risk
because of government persecution. They leave almost everything behind,
including Khosrou’s father, who chooses to stay. Their refugee journey,
propelled by his mother’s relentless pursuit of safety, opportunity, and
a home for her children, eventually takes them to Edmonds, Oklahoma.
Khosrou, now Daniel, regales his teacher, middle school classmates—and
readers—with stories about his life in Iran and Persian culture, using <i>The Thousand and One Nights</i>
as both reference point and inspiration. Daniel finds much about life
in the United States strange, and misses Iran and his father, a loss
amplified by lingering questions and the presence of his mother’s new
husband, who beats her. Nayeri’s unique, often funny conversational
voice, punctuated by moments of meta-narrative, is captivating, full of
both childlike innocence and longing (not to mention a fair share of
bathroom humor), and moments of adult-like observation. Nayeri notes
that he condensed his middle school classmates to types, while the
adults, especially his parents, stepfather, and teacher, come through in
full-relief in this distinctive, memorable work. ©2020 Cooperative
Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-80834353683090139632020-08-17T06:00:00.000-07:002020-08-17T06:00:06.251-07:00Book of the Week: The Only Black Girls in Town<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Brandy Colbert<br /><br />
Published by Little, Brown, 2020<br />
368 pages<br />9780316456388<br /><br />Ages 9-12</h4>
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Alberta lives in the small, tourist town of Ewing Beach,
California, with her dads. She loves to surf, and often goes to the
beach with her best friend, Laramie, who is white. Alberta’s is the only
Black family in town, so she’s excited when Edie and her mom move in
across the street. Edie, also Black, is from Brooklyn. As different as
Alberta and Edie’s lives have been, they hit it off. When Edie finds old
journals from a woman named Constance in the attic of her house--among a
number of things left behind--she and Alberta are soon caught up in the
narrative. Written in the 1950s and early 1960s, Constance’s journals
gradually make clear she was a Black woman passing as white, and the
girls are determined to find out what happened to her. Meanwhile, as so
often is the case when a third person enters the mix, Alberta is finding
it difficult to balance her old friendship with Laramie and her new
friendship with Edie, a challenge further complicated by racial dynamics
in their town, and in their friendships, that can’t be ignored. All
three girls are interesting and complex in an engaging story that gives
them permission to be themselves, even as they are expanding their
understanding of who they are and how they choose to be in the world.
©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-17857265092510121612020-08-10T06:01:00.002-07:002020-08-10T06:01:41.715-07:00Book of the Week: Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Lauren Castillo<br /><br />Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2020<br />
110 pages<br /> 978-1-5247-6671-9<br /><br /> Ages 4-8</h4>
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After Hedgehog’s beloved stuffed dog, Mutty, is blown off their
island home during a storm, bereft Hedgehog swims to shore in search of
him. Mole offers a listening ear, comfort and a plan: They’ll ask
sharp-eyed Owl at Lookout Point. Owl asks questions, takes notes, and
suggests they visit Beaver’s dam, where things can easily get caught.
Beaver, who’s wearing Mutty’s red scarf, explains (somewhat defensively)
that he found it in the marsh, which is where the ever-expanding group
heads next. Hen and her Chicks are scavenging in the marsh, and busy
busy Hen has found a picture of Mutty in front of house. At the house
they all meet Annika Mae Flores, a camera-toting, brown-skinned, Latinx
girl who recently moved in. Annika Mae has been looking for her lost
story notebook (Owl may know something about that). She’s also found
someone very important to Hedgehog. Hundred Acre Wood: Meet Hedge
Hollow. Castillo’s sure-handed storytelling in this charming illustrated
chapter book pairs her loose, expressive art style combining bold lines
and warm colors with a narrative full of tenderness, deep feeling, high
drama, humor, and warmth. The tale and its cast of distinctive
personalities is an irresistible combination of words and images that
will appeal to young listeners and independent readers alike. ©2020
Cooperative Children’s Book Center</div>
Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-14557605763321367612020-08-03T06:00:00.000-07:002020-08-03T06:00:07.682-07:00Book of the Week: Summer Song<div class="content">
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<br />by Kevin Henkes<br />
Illustrated by Laura Dronzek<br /> <br />
Published by Greenwillow / HarperCollins, 2020<br />
36 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-0-06-286613-4<br /><br />Ages 3-7</h4>
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“… summer is green. Green on green on green. Summer is a green
song.” It’s a song of leaves, trees, weeds, and grass that can “sound
like music” if that grass is tall and the wind is blowing. Other summer
things sound like music too: air conditioners and fans, sprinklers and
lawn mowers, birds and rain and thunder and bugs. And other colors sing
in summer—gray (fog), blue (water and sky). “But the green song is still
there.” Eventually the days begin to shorten and the song begins to
change, “turning / turning / turning … it’s turning into Fall.” There
is such delight and appreciation in this accounting of the sights,
sounds, and feel of the season—a sense of the expansiveness and bounty
of the natural world, and days that feel wide open and endless. Four
diverse children are shown in vibrant full-page and cozy spot
illustrations that, along with the text, foreshadow fall’s arrival in
the final pages. The transition feels bittersweet, as it often does in
real life. Luckily, children and families can turn to the three
previously published companion volumes from this author/illustrator duo
offering equally observant, playful, appreciative, and surprising
accounts of the other seasons. ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book Center</div>
Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-79275636459179886532020-07-27T06:30:00.003-07:002020-07-27T06:30:37.484-07:00Book of the Week: What Lane?<div class="content">
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by Torrey Maldonado</h4>
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Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin, 2020<br />
125 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-0-525-51843-3<br /><br />
Ages 9-13</h4>
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Sixth grader Stephen and his best friend Dan share a passion for
superheroes, live in neighboring apartments, and spend a lot of time
together. Stephen thinks they are essentially twins, except that they
don’t look alike. Light-skinned Stephen has a Black dad and white mom,
while Dan is white. They’ve always had each other’s backs, but lately
Stephen is bothered that Dan doesn’t seem concerned by his cousin Chad’s
racist jabs. Chad taunts Stephen and tries to get him into trouble, and
Stephen finds it hard to stand up to those aggressive tactics. He’s
begun noticing how people treat him differently than his white friends,
even when they are all doing the same thing. And his Black friends are
starting to give him a hard time about abandoning them to hang out with
the white kids. His dad is schooling him on the dangers of being a Black
man, lecturing him to always be careful in public, while his mom wants
to shelter him from what she believes are adult concerns. Stephen wants
to occupy all lanes, and resents feeling pushed to choose one over
others. Through the course of this short novel, Stephen personal beliefs
about tough issues of race, identity, and the complexities of
friendship evolve as he transitions between childhood and adolescence. (MVL) ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book Center</div>
Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-90906236830147034302020-07-20T07:07:00.002-07:002020-07-20T07:16:25.276-07:00Book of the Week: Look<div class="content">
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by Zan Romanoff</h4>
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Published by Dial, 2020<br />
368 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-0-5255-5426-4<br /><br />
Age 14 and older</h4>
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High school senior Lulu regularly uploads photos and video to a
platform called Flash (think Snapchat). Lulu meets down-to-earth Cass at
a party. Although Cass is uninterested in social media and
stereotypical trappings of moneyed teens in L.A., Cass’s best friend,
Ryan Riggs, is the teenage brother of Flash’s founder. Ryan is
renovating a formerly grand hotel built by his great-grandfather as his
family “project.” Lulu and Cass regularly hang out at the unfinished
hotel, which feels like a refuge. Ryan prohibits anyone else from
taking photos there but is constantly framing his visitors through the
lens of his own camera. As Lulu and Cass fall for each other, the hotel
becomes their intimate, private space—until Ryan betrays them. Lulu,
white and Jewish, had already begun thinking critically about media’s
treatment of women through reading for her cinema studies class and
discussions with Cass. Ryan’s unconscionable violation of their trust
and privacy intensifies her reflection on the female body, from her own
to Ryan’s great-grandmother's, a silent film star whose work seeded the
family fortune, as possession and commodity. Lulu's thinking about what she chooses to share on platforms like Flash shifts with her expanding perspective on female exploitation; the relevance and immediacy of these
issues in the lives of teens today, along with the complexity and depth
of Lulu’s relationships with family and friends, both add to the
satisfying substance of this queer romance. ©2020 Cooperative Children’s
Book Center</div>
Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-51766663000812835622020-07-13T06:00:00.000-07:002020-07-13T06:00:02.050-07:00Book of the Week: We Are Water Protectors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Carole Lindstrom<br />
Illustrated by Michaela Goade<br /> <br />
Published by Roaring Brook Press, 2020<br />
40 pages<br />
ISBN: 9781250203557<br /><br />Ages 5-9</h4>
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A young girl describes how water is viewed among her people. "Water is the first medicine, Nokomis told me . . . We come from water … The river’s rhythm runs through my veins. Runs through my people’s veins.” Water, Nokomis tells her, has a spirit of its own, and also connects the present generation to the ancestors and the past. The arrival of a black snake whose venom is threatening to poison the water leads the girl and her people to take action, standing together against the snake. They fight for the water, for the earth and its creatures, to defend all those who cannot fight. “We stand / With our songs / and our drums. / We are still here.” A book by an Ojibwe/Métis author and Tlingit artist was inspired by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. In their notes, the author and illustrator tell more about Indigenous views, the Standing Rock Water Protectors, and their belief in the importance of this environmental activism to all. The gorgeous illustrations in overall vibrant hues convey the disruption and menace of the snakelike pipeline as it traverses some pages. The art incorporates details of Ojibwe culture while also representing “a diverse group of Indigenous Nations and allies.” ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-29969730068306376232020-07-06T06:51:00.001-07:002020-07-06T06:51:04.207-07:00Book of the Week: The Old Truck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey<br /><br />Norton Young Readers, 2020<br />
40 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-1-324-00519-3<br /><br />Ages 18 months - 3 years</h4>
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An old truck is the one constant on a small family farm occupied by
a Black family whose only child grows from toddler-hood to girlhood,
through her teenage years and into adulthood. As she grows older, so,
too, does the truck which eventually falls into disrepair and sits,
rusting beside the barn, right where it’s always been. The old truck
never moves, remaining in the same position on the page while the action
of the family happens all around it. The short declarative sentences
focus on the experience of the truck while the equally uncluttered
illustrations focus on the girl. Astute observers will note that, from
an early age, she’s always working alongside her parents, tinkering with
machinery. So it comes as no surprise that, once she inherits the farm,
she restores the old truck and gets it running again so that it can
VROOOOOOOM off the page in a satisfying conclusion. The retro
illustrations and the personification of machinery is reminiscent of
Virginia Lee Burton (and will appeal to the same audience) but there is a
completely modern look to the art, as well, which the brothers created
with 250 handmade rubber stamps. This deeply satisfying book is one that
young children will want to hear again and again, and adults won’t mind
a bit. (KTH) ©2020 Cooperative Children's Book Center Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-70228094113215547882020-06-29T06:00:00.000-07:002020-06-29T06:00:12.257-07:00Book of the Week: When You Trap a Tiger<div class="content">
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by Tae Keller<br /><br />Published by Random House, 2020<br />
304 pages<br />
ISBN: 9781524715700<br /><br /> Ages 9-12</h4>
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When biracial (Korean/white) Lily, her older sister Sam, and their
mom move to Washington state to live with Hamoni, who is sick, Lily
begins seeing a large tiger, which demands Lily open the jars in
Halmoni’s basement and release the stories inside. Like her grandmother,
Lily believes in magic. Although she knows tigers are tricksters in
Korean tales, Lily says she’ll release the stories if the tiger will
make Halmoni better. Lily’s effort to adjust to the move is made more
challenging because teenage Sam, with whom she used to be close, seems
angry all the time, while their mother is overwhelmed by Halmoni’s
illness--revealed to be a brain tumor that impacts Halmoni’s behavior,
and only seems to amplify the differences between the two. The
small-town library becomes the source of a quirky new friend for Lily, a
hopeful new beginning for Sam, and another perspective on Halmoni who,
it turns out, has been a central figure in the community for years,
known for sharing traditional Korean stories, food, and healing—all
things Lily thought might not have a place in the predominantly white
small town. The tiger, meanwhile, proves benevolent, not a trickster:
The stories it wants released are painful memories Halmoni locked away:
of her childhood in Korea, and loss through separation and immigration.
In this moving, masterfully paced tale, Lily discovers healing can
happen in the heart and mind, even if a body can’t endure. ©2020
Cooperative Children’s Book Center</div>
Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-10886369774211899552020-06-22T06:00:00.000-07:002020-06-22T06:00:09.174-07:00Book of the Week: The Henna Wars<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqK4PthaaVQjUdc-nekXBsXAr-216iduPrDJ23DgHs19azvN64_dO10eSrVMoO7PEqjGsNz8NhK9Runy7nnFSh8optamQ2ae4WbyGCT127qsNzqDaLV7qxEbOwHHQD1abIrHi-aIO5wQ/s1600/henna+wars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="268" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqK4PthaaVQjUdc-nekXBsXAr-216iduPrDJ23DgHs19azvN64_dO10eSrVMoO7PEqjGsNz8NhK9Runy7nnFSh8optamQ2ae4WbyGCT127qsNzqDaLV7qxEbOwHHQD1abIrHi-aIO5wQ/s320/henna+wars.jpg" width="211" /></a><br />
<h4>
by Adiba Jaigirdar<br /><br />
Published by Page Street Books, 2020<br />
389 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-1-62414-968-9<br /><br />Age 12 and older</h4>
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Nishat is thrilled to see new student Flávia at her Catholic girls’
school in Dublin. They met at the wedding of Nishat’s cousin, and
Nishat was immediately smitten. Like Nishat, Flávia is dark-skinned (her
father white, her mother Afro-Brazilian), and the two stand out among
their many white Irish classmates. At home, Nishat recently came out to
her conservative parents, who emigrated from Bangladesh to Ireland; they
don’t want her to bring shame on the family by being gay. At school,
Nishat learns Flávia is the cousin of Chyna, who has made Nishat’s life a
living hell of micro-aggressions and exclusion. Nishat’s interest in
Flávia is further complicated when Nishat starts a Mehndi business for a
class project and Flávia and Chyna do the same. For Nishat, the
elaborate henna drawings she makes on customers’ hands are an important
part of her cultural tradition. She’s upset that Flávia and Chyna think
it’s ok to appropriate what they only see as pretty decorations, which
Flávia learned about at the Bangladeshi wedding. Nishat and Flávia are
fierce competitors even as their attraction intensifies, and Nishat
can’t help but question whether Flávia’s feelings are genuine when both
are willing to do whatever it takes to win, including sabotage and
retribution. This unusual, compelling teen romance draws readers in with
fully developed characters navigating queer politics, race, and
culture. ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book Center<br />
Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-32187728990263013552020-06-16T08:30:00.001-07:002020-07-30T09:42:41.517-07:00The Numbers Are In: 2019 CCBC Diversity StatisticsEach spring, the CCBC releases the numbers of children's and YA books by and about BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) received in the previous year. We're later than usual with the 2019 numbers due to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, work-from-home limitations mean we can't update the <a href="https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp" target="_blank">publishing statistics</a> on our website. In the meantime, we hope that this blog will serve as a space to announce the 2019 numbers and provide a few visuals.<br />
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Brief explanations of our numbers and charts are included in this post. For a more thorough explanation, please see the <a href="https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/statsfaqs.asp" target="_blank">Diversity Statistics FAQ</a> on our website.<br />
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For the first time this year, we are counting books by and about Pacific Islanders. Previously, these books were included in the Asian/Asian American count; we learned that that was not an accurate way to represent them. Thank you to Uyenthi Tran Myhre for correcting us. We retroactively examined the 2018 numbers in order to extract Pacific Islander numbers from Asian/Asian American numbers for comparison in this post.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Books<br />Received<br />at CCBC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Black / African<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">American Indian / First Nations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Asian /<br />Asian American<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td><td colspan="2" style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 128px;" width="17%"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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</td><td colspan="2" style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 113px;" width="17%"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">About</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">2019</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">3,716<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">212<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">452<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">28<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">44<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">379<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">334<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">225<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">235<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">5<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Last Updated: June 15, 2020</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Books<br />Received<br />at CCBC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Black / African<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">American Indian / First Nations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td><td colspan="2" style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 128px;" width="17%"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Asian /<br />Asian American<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td><td colspan="2" style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 128px;" width="17%"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Latinx<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Pacific Islander<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">2019</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">4,034<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Please note that a single book may be counted in more than one category (e.g., one book may have two protagonists, one Black and one Native; a single author may identify as Afro-Latinx). Therefore, "by" and "about" numbers in the charts will not add up to the total number of books received. Likewise, percentages will not add up to 100.<br />
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The two charts below compare 2019 to 2018 "about" numbers (US publishers only). We count a book as "about" Black/African, for example, if a primary character, significant secondary character, subject, and/or setting is Black/African.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ5l6QvPq-85KdcEyDSdxTr9weUTh6L30_FUtoAhF8aRcErrlVosV_o9ug1JE1eGCVIGWY33jCzMCLZqxxiZ0r05y-CmnjkxIXB7RVaFDI1EoZwCZUFJVgeKbsPAXa-LQzbOV_Hc0kf6nm/s1600/Number+of+Books+Received+by+CCBC_+About.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Black/African 2018: 390. 2019: 452. First/Native Nations 2018: 34. 2019: 44. Asian/Asian American 2018: 284. 2019: 334. Latinx 2018: 243. 2019: 235. Pacific Islander 2018: 5. 2019: 5." border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="600" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ5l6QvPq-85KdcEyDSdxTr9weUTh6L30_FUtoAhF8aRcErrlVosV_o9ug1JE1eGCVIGWY33jCzMCLZqxxiZ0r05y-CmnjkxIXB7RVaFDI1EoZwCZUFJVgeKbsPAXa-LQzbOV_Hc0kf6nm/s400/Number+of+Books+Received+by+CCBC_+About.png" title="Bar chart. Number of Books Received by CCBC: About (US Publishers)" width="400" /></a></div>
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In the chart above, take a look at the first two bars on the left, labeled "Black/African." In 2018 (blue), we received 390 books that had significant Black/African content, including primary characters, significant secondary characters, subjects, and/or settings. In 2019 (red), we received 452 such books.<br />
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This may seem like a significant increase, but it actually represents just a 0.5% change. Since the <i>total </i>number of books we receive varies from year to year, it is helpful to consider percentages rather than raw numbers when comparing years.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwBeGGHqRkiv3yL6CmLo8gGHUm0M7UQwoXDG0I_6PnYolt6NecZDX59o3Z9b7_vH2jtBZlH9jdN1myaGSCHQl7EOyBJzAsyt1LrVYe7Ki85DKyFEAd2ozcjRfUadjQ_SpcB9WioKkZatOZ/s1600/Percentage+of+Total+Books+Received+by+CCBC_+About.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Black/African 2018: 11.7 percent. 2019: 12.2 percent. First/Native Nations 2018: 1 percent. 2019: 1.2 percent. Asian/Asian American 2018: 8.5 percent. 2019: 9 percent. Latinx 2018: 7.3 percent. 2019: 6.3 percent. Pacific Islander 2018: 0.1 percent. 2019: 0.1 percent. " border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="600" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwBeGGHqRkiv3yL6CmLo8gGHUm0M7UQwoXDG0I_6PnYolt6NecZDX59o3Z9b7_vH2jtBZlH9jdN1myaGSCHQl7EOyBJzAsyt1LrVYe7Ki85DKyFEAd2ozcjRfUadjQ_SpcB9WioKkZatOZ/s400/Percentage+of+Total+Books+Received+by+CCBC_+About.png" title="Bar chart. Percentage of Total Books Received by CCBC: About (US Publishers)" width="400" /></a></div>
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Above, take a look at the two bars on the left, labeled "Black/African." In 2018 (blue), 11.7% of the total books we received were about Black/African characters, subjects, and/or settings. In 2019 (red), that number increased to 12.2%.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8DkcKRRcsT6k7eRygpV5sXb_jNAdB7bRhU5eymfsu9Sc1orNhNgOSnNvS6KZRjg-MAPheJ8YAblDCNORmxBHdLnrLpGMdw2QRwnpx8JcYKjx0ygSOoEtJMHb3g6LyZxGF8BsO5mDKCqRj/s1600/Number+of+Books+Received+by+CCBC_+By.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Black/African 2018: 193. 2019: 212. First/Native Nations 2018: 23. 2019: 28. Asian/Asian American 2018: 342. 2019: 379. Latinx 2018: 190. 2019: 225. Pacific Islander 2018: 1. 2019: 4. White 2018: 2,803. 2019: 3,091." border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="600" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8DkcKRRcsT6k7eRygpV5sXb_jNAdB7bRhU5eymfsu9Sc1orNhNgOSnNvS6KZRjg-MAPheJ8YAblDCNORmxBHdLnrLpGMdw2QRwnpx8JcYKjx0ygSOoEtJMHb3g6LyZxGF8BsO5mDKCqRj/s400/Number+of+Books+Received+by+CCBC_+By.png" title="Bar chart. Number of books received by CCBC: By (US publishers)" width="400" /></a></div>
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The above chart shows the number of books by--which means written and/or illustrated--at least one individual who identifies with the specified category. Take a look at the first two columns on the left, labeled "Black/African." In 2018 (blue), we received 193 books written and/or illustrated by at least one individual who is Black/of African descent. In 2019 (red), we received 212 such books.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0uFf9W_TGdTXVsaXTYm1HrBVr8Ze_4uUHxenVStgmp-Qq3upG_AB1PfRk8Vmnuy4f9kv07XVgOI6zAZEtaclLumPUWbpBjJDoMIdxI2qAwRLX7knVzcu0cEeMx9sPJdmQvXJlfvlPOPZC/s1600/Percentage+of+Total+Books+Received+by+CCBC_+By.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Black/African 2018: 5.8 percent. 2019: 5.7 percent. First/Native Nations 2018: 0.7 percent. 2019: 0.8 percent. Asian/Asian American 2018: 10.3 percent. 2019: 10.2 percent. Latinx 2018: 5.7 percent. 2019: 6.1 percent. Pacific Islander 2018: 0.03 percent. 2019: 0.1 percent. White 2018: 84 percent. 2019: 83.2 percent." border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="600" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0uFf9W_TGdTXVsaXTYm1HrBVr8Ze_4uUHxenVStgmp-Qq3upG_AB1PfRk8Vmnuy4f9kv07XVgOI6zAZEtaclLumPUWbpBjJDoMIdxI2qAwRLX7knVzcu0cEeMx9sPJdmQvXJlfvlPOPZC/s400/Percentage+of+Total+Books+Received+by+CCBC_+By.png" title="Bar chart. Percentage of total books received by CCBC: By (US Publishers)" width="400" /></a></div>
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The above chart shows the percentage of the <i>total </i>number of books we received. Take a look at the first two columns on the left, labeled "Black/African." In 2018 (blue), 5.8% of the total books we received were written and/or illustrated by at least one person who is Black/of African descent. In 2019 (red), that number dropped slightly to 5.7%.<br />
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Now let's take a closer look at primary characters (US publishers only). Below are the number of books that had <i>at least one </i>primary character who could be identified as belonging to one of the following categories.<br />
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Please note: These numbers are <i>not </i>the same as our "about" numbers. In addition to counting primary characters, our "about" numbers also include significant secondary characters, subjects, and/or settings. The numbers below are <i>only </i>primary characters.<br />
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Black/African: 441 (11.9% of total books)<br />
First/Native Nations: 37 (1% of total books)<br />
Asian/Asian American: 325 (8.7% of total books)<br />
Latinx: 197 (5.3% of total books)<br />
Pacific Islander: 2 (0.05% of total books)<br />
Brown skin (see note below): 343 (9.2% of total books)<br />
White: 1,555 (41.8% of total books)<br />
LGBTQIAP+: 115 (3.1% of total books)<br />
Disability: 126 (3.4% of total books)<br />
Animal/Other: 1,085 (29.2% of total books)<br />
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Note: "Brown skin" indicates books in which the primary character clearly has brown skin (indicated by illustrations or text), but there are no specific racial or cultural signifiers in the illustrations or text.<br />
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For ease of comparison, here are the above percentages in a bar chart:<br />
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What does all of this mean? Our numbers continue to show what they have shown for the past 35 years: Despite slow progress, the number of books featuring BIPOC protagonists lags far behind the number of books with white main characters--or even those with animal or other characters. Taken together, books about white children, talking bears, trucks, monsters, potatoes, etc. represent nearly three quarters (71%) of children's and young adult books published in 2019.<br />
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Finally, as indicated by the addition of the Pacific Islander category in 2019, we are still learning <i>as </i>we do this work how <i>best </i>to do this work. We are grateful for the feedback and voices of Arab and Arab American colleagues on Twitter and elsewhere who have helped us understand the importance of adding Arab/Arab American as a category; this will be included and reflected in our statistics for 2020 and beyond.<br />
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Update: A previous version of this blog post used the term "(dis)ability." It has been corrected to "disability." Thank you to David Gillon for pointing out this error.Madeline Tynerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559810209759562966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-76467158654275765832020-06-15T06:00:00.000-07:002020-06-15T06:00:01.540-07:00Book of the Week: What Sound Is Morning?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Grant Snider<br /><br />
Published by Chronicle, 2020<br />
40 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-1-4521-7993-3<br /><br />Ages 2-5</h4>
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“In the first morning light, all is quiet. Or is it? Listen. What
sound is morning?” Starting in the home, the pages move through the
sounds of morning: lights clicking on, a baby babbling, sprinklers
hissing, a rooster crowing. As the world wakes up, other sounds join in:
a man shouting after a bus, cars and trucks entering the city, hungry
stomachs rumbling, frogs plopping into a stream. City sounds, home
sounds, and country sounds flow seamlessly from one to the next as the
sky brightens, before asking the reader to greet the new day and “fill
the world with your song.” A saturated color palette showcases yellow,
orange, pink, and red expanding across the horizon, while buildings and
streets remain dark green and blue in the foreground. (MVL) ©2020 Cooperative
Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-28274463135111759662020-06-08T06:00:00.000-07:002020-06-08T06:39:57.024-07:00Book of the Week: Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h4>
by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi<br /><br />Little, Brown, 2020<br />
294 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-0-316-45369-1<br /><br />Age 12 and older</h4>
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This necessary book for our time is labeled a “remix” of Kendi’s 2016 National Book Award winner published for adults, <i>Stamped from the Beginning.</i>
It’s an accurate description: Reynolds’ adaptation is intimate and
conversational, a significant departure from the original compelling but academic tome.
Frequently speaking directly to young readers in his distinctive and
recognizable voice, Reynolds makes hard truths accessible in the tone of
a trusted friend breaking it down with honesty, and even occasional
humor. After documenting the origins of racist ideas, he introduces
three categories of people based on their beliefs: racist,
assimilationist, and anti-racist. This is followed by a chronological
exploration of the racial politics of United States, from the Puritans
through the Obama era. Along the way are examples of historical people,
from Cotton Mather to W.E.B. DuBois to Angela Davis, showing how each
exemplified the definitions of racist, assimilationist, and anti-racist.
The narrative stops just before 2016, but readers have been given the
foundation to begin to evaluate our current era on their own. Although
Stamped is a real departure from Reynolds’ fiction and poetry, it still
bears his trademark style, which will make it extremely appealing to his
fans, and may even win him some new ones. An Afterword written directly
to teens is especially moving and powerful. (KTH) ©2020 Cooperative
Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-49403913664798907842020-06-01T08:08:00.000-07:002020-06-01T08:08:20.850-07:00Book of the Week: When Stars Are Scattered<br />
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<h4>
by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed<br /><br />
Published by Dial, 2020<br />
264 pages<br />
ISBN: 9780525553915<br /><br />Ages 9-13</h4>
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Separated from their mother when soldiers attacked their Somalian
village, Omar and his brother, Hassan, live in a sprawling refugee camp
in Kenya, watched over by loving foster mother Fatuma. Fiercely
protective of Hassan, who has a developmental disability and experiences
seizures, Omar hesitates to begin school, but excels in his classes
once he does. School provides structure to the otherwise long,
monotonous days, which become years, of waiting: to be called for an
interview, to be told they can be resettled in North America or Europe,
to be reunited with their mother, whose fate is unknown, although Omar
searches for answers every chance he has. This personal memoir, a
collaboration between Omar Mohamed, who now works in refugee
resettlement, and graphic novelist Victoria Jamieson, details the
specifics of Omar and Hassan’s lives, including their friendships with
others in the camp. In doing so, it illuminates the hardships of refugee
life in general—crowding, food and water shortages, hopelessness—the
challenge for people with disabilities, and the particular situations of
girls and women. Colorful, expressive illustrations, a satisfying
ending, and Mohamed’s illuminating author’s note with photographs,
balance the very real trauma and pain of this moving story. ©2020
Cooperative Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-79140709381844089252020-05-25T06:00:00.000-07:002020-07-01T05:17:52.839-07:00Book of the Week: Red Hood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h4>
by Elana K. Arnold<br /><br />
Published by HarperCollins, 2020<br />
368 pages<br />
ISBN: 9780062742353<br /><br /> Age 14 and older</h4>
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Bisou was a little girl when her father killed her mother. Now 16,
she's lived with her maternal grandmother, Mémé, ever since. When Bisou
finally gets her period, she makes the discovery in an intimate moment
with her boyfriend. Embarrassed, she runs off into the woods. In the
dark, she senses something chasing her and discovers it’s a wolf, which
Bisou kills in self-defense. The next morning, the naked body of one of
her male classmates is found. It turns out Mémé has a secret: With her
monthly blood came a calling and heightened ability to hunt men whose
violence transforms them into wolves. Now Bisou bears the gift and the
burden of being a hunter. Bisou, who is white, has always known that some boys and men
consider it their right to claim girls and women—body and being--as
their own; she remembers her mother's bruises, and finding her bloodied
body. Still, she’d never considered speaking out or taking action. Her
classmate Keisha does speak out, challenging the behavior of one boy in
particular whose harassment of Maggie, another classmate, is
frightening. Folkloric elements amplify the harshest truths of misogyny,
as well as female fear and rage, in this gripping tale. Bisou’s and
Mémé’s hunting, while unsettling, is in response to violent, deadly
intentions. The power of friendship, solidarity, and truth-telling among
girls and women, and supportive boys and men, also resonates across
this tense, arresting work. ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-75902330010378944302020-05-18T06:00:00.000-07:002020-05-18T06:00:01.897-07:00Book of the Week: Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Edited by S. K. Ali and Aisha Saeed</h4>
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Published by Amulet, 2020<br />
272 pages<br />
ISBN: 9781419740831</h4>
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Ages 9-12</h4>
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The children, young teens, and families at the center of each
slice-of-life offering in this vibrant collection come from many
backgrounds and live in many different places. Each of them feels
distinct, yet familiar and recognizable as they navigate feelings common
to many children and teens regardless of faith or circumstance, such as
being the new kid at school; or longing for traditions not to change; or
feeling like an outsider in one’s own extended, bicultural family. Yet
their Muslim faith is an essential part of their identities, and there
is power in the breadth of these accumulated stories, all of which are
set during one of the two Eid observances: Eid-al-Fitr or Eid-al-Adha.
Vivid depictions of food, family dynamics, and friendship are woven into
these tales full of hope and generosity that feels genuine to each
story. In their introduction, editors Aisha Saeed and S. K. Ali write
that this collection offers the “cozy and familiar” for many Muslim
readers, while also extending an invitation to non-Muslim readers to
join in on the celebration of Eid. This open-hearted offering, comprised
mostly of prose stories but also including comics and verse, succeeds
beautifully on both counts. ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-15779421934216564512020-05-11T06:53:00.000-07:002020-05-11T06:56:11.288-07:00Book of the Week: Cat Dog Dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Nelly Buchet</h4>
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Illustrated by Andrea Zuill<br /> <br />
Published by Schwartz & Wade, 2020<br />
32 pages<br />
ISBN: 9781984848994<br /><br />
Ages 3-7</h4>
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This fresh, warm, funny account about members of a newly configured household<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span>learning to get along revolves around two dogs (one small, one large) and a cat. The
small dog belongs to a white man. The large dog and cat belong to a
brown-skinned woman. When the man moves in with the woman, the three
animals have some adjusting to do. In a picture book
perfect for beginning readers, the spare, repetitive text is limited to
labeling the animals on each page (e.g., "Dog," "Dog Cat," "Dog Cat
Dog"), incorporating an occasional surprise word related to several
scenes ("Bird," "Frog"), including the surprise in the final one. The
spirited ink and digital illustrations are full of humor in details
familiar to any pet owner (3 boxes labeled “Dog Box” for the move; the
animals' manic pursuit of one another; bed wars), while visual clues
mark the passage of time across the seasons as the trio gradually moves
from suspicion and uncertainty to a tight-knit bond. ©2020 Cooperative
Children’s Book CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-19900255837857797072020-05-04T06:00:00.000-07:002020-05-04T06:00:04.824-07:00Book of the Week: Dragon Hoops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Gene Luen Yang<br />Color by Lark Pien<br />
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Published by First Second, 2020<br />
446 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-1-62672-079-4<br />
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Age 12 and older<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Part memoir, part history, and part riveting sports
story, Yang opens his humorous graphic novel with a confession: He’s always
hated sports. He’s classed himself as a nerd since childhood and even as a high
school teacher hangs out with other nerds. In fact, it seems all the teachers
hang out with kindred spirit groups from their own teen years. But he’s drawn
to cross the divide by the power of story in 2015, when he begins hearing about
the school basketball team’s current season. Seeking out the coach, he
discovers they have a lot in common. Yang moves back and forth between
chronicling the rest of the season—he becomes an avid follower and fan—and the
lives of African American Coach Lou Richie, Richie’s former coach and mentor,
Mike Phelps, and key players on the Bishop O’Dowd varsity team, the Dragons. As
he relates pivotal moments that spurred each person forward, he weaves a
narrative offering great depth in terms of story, plot, and characters,
integrating historical context—about basketball, about society—throughout an
account that is also an action-packed sports story. Yang also displays the
creative side of what he’s doing as a writer and an artist, openly grappling
with ethical decisions about who to include and how much to tell—or not to tell—in
this fascinating, funny, and ultimately triumphant book. (KTH) </span>©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book Center<br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-81295772930049385582020-04-27T06:00:00.000-07:002020-05-13T08:18:49.157-07:00Book of the Week: Leaving Lymon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Lesa Cline-Ransome</h4>
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Published by Holiday House, 2020<br />
198 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-0-8234-4442-7<br /> <br />
Ages 8-12</h4>
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With his daddy in Parchman Farms, the state penitentiary, Lymon is
being raised by his grandparents in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After his
beloved Grandpops dies, his aunts move Lymon and his grandmother, who
can barely cope with her own needs let alone Lymon’s, to Milwaukee.
When his daddy is released, Lymon hopes they’ll be together again, but
Daddy makes promises he doesn’t keep, arriving in Milwaukee one day and
leaving the next, always on the road for musical gigs. Lymon’s mother,
who left him as a toddler, reappears on the scene when his grandmother’s
health declines. She takes him to live with her in Chicago, where he
has two younger half-brothers and a domineering stepfather. African
American Lymon, who first appeared as a school-yard bully in last year’s
<i>Looking for Langston, </i>is seen here from the inside out. A story spanning a
decade, from 1938 to 1947, shows Lymon’s anger and sadness build across
years of abandonment and, eventually, physical abuse. The constant in
Lymon’s life is music, which he “has an ear for,” and it’s music that
brings respite, and adults stepping up that bring Lymon hope, by story’s
end. Cline-Ransome demonstrates her genius for depicting setting and
fully fleshed out characters with an economy of style that makes for a
quick, yet deeply satisfying reading experience. (KTH) ©2020 Cooperative
Children’s Book Center Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-23279550983685148602020-04-20T06:00:00.000-07:002020-04-20T06:00:04.743-07:00Book of the Week: Hike<br />
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by Peter Oswald</h4>
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Published by Candlewick Press, 2020<br />40 pages<br />ISBN: 978-1-5362-0157-4</h4>
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<br />Ages 4-7</h4>
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A brown-skinned father and his child (who could be any gender) wake
up before dawn, eat breakfast, pack their car, and head out of the city
and into the wilderness, where they spend the day hiking. There are
more than a few dramatic challenges for the adventuresome duo in this
not-quite-wordless story, from crossing a creek on a single log bridge
to scaling a steep rise. There’s plenty of nature appreciation, too
(e.g., they stop to watch an eagle and later plant a small tree). Most
of all, there is the camaraderie of father and child. Except for the
judicious use of onomatopoeia, the muted watercolor illustrations tell
the story of their day, which ends back at home as they place a selfie
they took into a family scrapbook, next to photographs of three earlier
generations of father/child hikers. (KTH) ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book
CenterMegan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-47822623506347065872020-04-13T05:51:00.001-07:002020-07-01T05:21:22.603-07:00Book of the Week: A Game of Fox & Squirrels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Samantha, 11, and her sister Caitlyn, 14, have
just arrived at their aunt Vicky’s in Oregon, but Sam is already thinking about
going home. Caitlyn, who has a broken arm, seems content. After Aunt Vicky
gives Sam a beautiful old card game called “Fox & Squirrels,” Sam encounters
the dashing fox and friendly squirrels from the game in the woods. She’s
determined to succeed at the challenges the Fox sets to earn the Golden Acorn, with
which, he explains, Sam can wish herself back home. But the fox’s requests are
morally questionable and increasingly disturbing, while his unpredictable
personality and the way the squirrels strive to not upset him mirrors a truth
that Sam doesn’t want to admit—the truth of why they’ve come to stay with Aunt
Vicky and her wife, Hannah: Sam and Caitlyn’s dad is dangerous in the exact
same way, and Caitlyn’s broken arm was no accident. A book that explores child
abuse and its impact within a family—their mother’s ineffectiveness at
protecting them, Caitlyn’s efforts to protect them both—and across generations—Vicky
and their dad were both victims as children--is tense but also beautifully
reassuring, especially as Vicky and Hannah provide safety and support for the
sisters. The line between fantasy and reality is never delineated in a book about a white family that allows readers to mine their own meanings from its depths. </span><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">©2020
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Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-68469497659170583112020-04-06T06:00:00.000-07:002020-04-06T06:00:02.199-07:00Book of the Week: Prairie Lotus<div class="content">
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by Linda Sue Park<br /><br />Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020<br /><br />260 pages<br /> 978-1-328-78150-5<br /> <br />
Ages 8-11</h4>
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<br />
Hanna’s mama died when Hanna was 12. Now 15, she and Papa have left
Los Angeles far behind to start over in the growing frontier town of
LaForge, Dakota Territories, in 1880. Hanna has two strong desires: to
get her diploma, and to make dresses for the fabric shop Papa is
opening. Papa, who is white, doesn’t want Hanna to sew for the shop. He
and Mama owned a dress shop, but because Mama was Chinese many assumed
he married her to get free labor. Hanna knows her parents had a marriage
of love and a true partnership in business, but Papa is worried what
people will think. And when most of the other families pull their
children out of school in protest after Hanna starts attending, Hanna
isn’t sure people will even come to the shop once it opens. There are
numerous similarities to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books here,
many of them captivating. There are also critical, intentional
differences. Racism on the frontier is openly acknowledged and examined
through Hanna’s experiences and observations, while the Native people
(Oceti Sakowin/Lakota) Hanna meets are portrayed with respect and
dignity. Park writes about the Little House books, which she loved as a
child, in an author’s note that begins, “I wrote Hanna’s story as an
attempt at a painful reconciliation.” Familiar or not with those books,
readers will find this one a deeply satisfying
story with a resilient, winning protagonist. ©2020 Cooperative
Children’s Book Center</div>
Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-62343411147675694272020-03-30T06:00:00.000-07:002020-03-30T06:00:00.783-07:00Book of the Week: Not So Pure and Simple<br />
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by Lamar Giles</h4>
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Henry Holt, 2020</h4>
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400 pages</h4>
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ISBN: 978-0-06-234919-4</h4>
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<br />Age 13 and older</h4>
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Del has had a crush on Kiera since grade school, and she’s finally boyfriend-free. He volunteers to join a youth group at church in which Kiera is involved as a way to impress her, only to discover that he’s unwittingly committed to a Purity Pledge: No sex until marriage. At Del’s high school, a rash of recent pregnancies has been perceived by some, including the media, as being the result of a pact among the teen moms to get pregnant (in truth it was the coincidental outcome of an unscheduled week of cancelled school and boredom). While the new moms, including Del’s friend Shianne, are often shamed, the fathers remain largely unscathed in public opinion; meanwhile, sex education in the curriculum is under fire. Del’s voice and situation are laugh-out-loud funny as he is drawn into the Purity Pledge group despite himself (it turns out they’re all hungry for accurate information about sex). Del, African American, is hopeful he has a chance with Kiera based on their exchanges; then she starts dating a guy Del can’t stand. After all he’s done to impress her, Del wonders, how could Kiera reject a nice guy like him? A novel that never loses its sense of humor asks essential questions about the sense of male entitlement that permeates Del’s perspective, and the damaging impact of toxic masculinity in our culture on both girls and women and boys and men. ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book Center</div>
Megan Schliesmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014338325346040998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422332823670506235.post-49824058848121153682020-03-09T06:00:00.000-07:002020-03-09T06:00:10.469-07:00Book of the Week: A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas<br />
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by Evie Robillard</h4>
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Illustrated by Rachel Katstaller</h4>
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<br />Kids Can Press, 2020</h4>
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48 pages</h4>
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ISBN: 976-1-5253-0056-1</h4>
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<br />Ages 5-9</h4>
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A pitch-perfect picture book about Gertrude Stein’s life in Paris focuses on her art collection, her writing, her famous Salon, and her relationship with Alice B. Toklas. Not a word is wasted in this engaging, masterful account. Robillard’s well-rounded portrait of Stein (and Toklas, too) includes just the right excerpts from Stein’s writing to give readers a sense of her singular style, her wit, her Steiny-ness. The gouache and colored pencil illustrations flawlessly echo the tone of the poems that comprise the text—both playful and profound, rather like Stein and Toklas themselves. They also extend the sense of place that was so important to Stein and her kindred spirits: Paris, specifically 27 rue de Fleurus “…a place that was once filled with paintings— / bright, bold, wild, impossible paintings. / And in that place lived a woman named Gertrude Stein / and her brother Leo. / And later on, her partner, Alice.” ©2020 Cooperative Children’s Book Center</div>
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