Category: cultural

I am Brown

I am Brown teaches a lesson without even trying, because it’s so entertaining. While the underlying message is that people of color are definable in every way that humans can be defined, the fun of reading this book is what…

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

This is my first experience with a Wonderbook. The obvious advantage to an attached recording of the text is that pre-readers can “read” the book by themselves. In this book by Traci Sorell, whose work has been reviewed on The…

THE SHARED ROOM

THE  SHARED  ROOM  by Kao Kalia Yang,  illustrated by Xee Reiter Until recently death was not considered an appropriate topic for a children’s picture book.  Death, grief, sadness were “softened” by presenting the death of a pet, a wild animal,…

Lucia the Luchadora Girl Power!

A review by our guest contributor, Rachel Funez — “Lucia the Luchadora, by Cynthia Leonor Garza, is a delightful story about a little girl whose dreams of being a superhero are dashed when the boys on the playground tell her girls…

UNDER WATER by J. L. Powers

UNDER WATER by J.L. Powers After her grandmother dies, seventeen-year-old Khosi must learn to survive on her own-taking care of her little sister Zi, making a living as a healer, and trying to finish school somehow. But everywhere she turns…

Guest post by Padma Venkatraman WHITE ROSE By Kip Wilson Pub date: April 2, 2019 Ages: 12 and up Publisher: Versify, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcout.   White Rose is a work of historical fiction that resurrects a story…

The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman

The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman Kirkus Review’s bottom line says it all – “A blisteringly beautiful book.” Two sisters, eleven-year-old Viji and her younger sister, Rukku, escape from their abusive father and attempt to survive in the big chaotic…