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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: World Wide
There aren’t too many letters left of this alphabet challenge! But, before we end, let’s take a trip around the world to discover the cultures, celebrations, traditions, and festivals of people around the globe. These twelve books are sure to show kids that while we might go to school in…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Religion
While people may choose to worship in many different ways with many different types of holidays, festivals, and celebrations, the more I learn about the major holidays of the world, the more I’m reminded that we are more similar than we are different. And I think kids can benefit from…
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36 Titles for Babies & Toddlers: Social Justice, Equality and Diversity
I just recently had someone reach out to me on Facebook asking for titles for a new baby/toddler about social justice, equality, and diversity. Basically, a way to flood her child’s bookshelf with books that make them a better citizen of the world. Now, there aren’t a ton of titles for…
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Top Ten Tuesday: New to Me Authors in 2017
I started reviewing what I had read in 2017 and realized that I was already familiar with many of the authors I read, but there were a number of really amazing debut novels this year, so I focused my Top Ten list on those authors – new to me (and…
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Book Review: Calling My Name
Calling My Name by Liara Tamani is the story of Taja a young teen growing up in Houston, Texas with her family and friends. Taja knows what her parents expect of her – spend quality time with the family, get good grades, go to church every Sunday and abstinence is…
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Community Connections – Interfaith Education
I spent a few hours last night at a Sharing Ramadan event hosted by our local Islamic Society. It was a wonderful event with a speaker who took the time to talk about the beliefs of the Islam faith as well as how Muslims are being viewed by the media.…
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Happy Hanukkah! 10 Read Aloud Titles for Hanukkah
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know a lot about Hanukkah, I grew up in a small town in (fairly) rural, western PA. We had only a few kids in our school that didn’t look like me, and we knew no one who celebrated Jewish holidays. So,…
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Diversity Resources
There’s a lot of talk about diversity in children’s literature, but it may be difficult to actually find information. I’ve found a few valuable resources (I’m sure there are a bunch more!) that make finding information a whole lot easier! 1.) We Need Diverse Books An official campaign that began…
