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Picture Book Month: Freedom
Kadir Nelson is an amazingly talented painter whose illustrations jump off the page and come to life with rich oil paint and pencil details. This is the remarkable story of Henry and how he actually shipped himself to freedom in a wooden crate. Of course, being a slave, Henry’s spent…
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International Women's Day
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Happy Banned Book Week
This is the 30th Anniversary of Banned Book Week sponsored in part by the American Library Association (ALA) that celebrates the freedom to read. It’s 2012 and banning books is still a common process in many school libraries and public libraries around the country. For many reasons this surprises me still –…