Review by Cindy Liliana Gonzalez What if I asked you to draw a picture of your first country? What would you draw? That is what Lola, the protagonist in Islandborn, and her entire class are asked to do as a homework assignment by their teacher Ms. Obi. Lola makes part of a culturally diverse classroom…
Where can be our home when our home planet (Earth) is no longer safe for us to live? Moving to an alien planet probably isn’t that easy!
I had the pleasure of reading and writing about Frank Lowe’s Some People Do. This informative, charming book has a poetic structure with delightful visuals. It aims to explain diversity to children and normalize varying identities.
Wishtree, Katherine Applegate’s fantasy novel told from the point of view of an oak tree, shows a community of animals and humans who teach other lessons of togetherness that all readers will relate to.
Review by Kate Plager When you find yourself in a new culture, where you don’t know the language, customs or ways of life, how do you make sense of it all? Many of us have never traveled alone to a new country where a different language is spoken. We find it hard to understand the…
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