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Children learn best from activities and lessons that are hands on and engaging. Sensory bins provide an excellent opportunity to facilitate this type of learning! Sensory bins can be tailored to stimulate a variety of the five senses.
Touch: Sensory bins usually begin with a filler material or substance such as rice (as shown above), sand, water, beans, paper, pebbles, whipped cream, corn, pudding, etc… Remember to always choose age-appropriate fillers for sensory bins that do not pose choking hazards to young children and be mindful of any fillers that may cause allergic reactions in some children.
Fillers stimulate the sense of touch as children will experience textures and the feel of different materials/substances in and on their hands.
Sight: Once the sensory bin has been filled with an age-appropriate filler, objects related to the lesson/activity are then added to the bin. Objects such as letters, numbers, pictures, flash cards, transportation toys, play food, play animals/insects, dinosaurs, natural items such as seashells (shown above) pinecones, leaves, etc… There are countless objects that can be added to sensory bins, the only limitation is your imagination!
In addition to being fun, the objects placed in the sensory bin sharpen hand-eye coordination and strengthen fine motor skills. As with filler materials, objects placed in the bin should be age-appropriate and safe.
Hearing: As children dig, scoop, squish, pick up and drop the materials and objects in the bin different sounds will flood their ears!
Smell & Taste: Depending on the filler material you choose the senses of smell and taste may be stimulated. Utilize different foods such as: whipped cream, popcorn, fruit, cereal, noodles, pudding, etc… Make sure food fillers are age-appropriate and mindful of allergies.
The Okra Stew Sensory Bin
This sensory bin is inspired by the book, Okra Stew: A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration, written and illustrated by Natalie Daise. In this story a young child and his father spend the day preparing to cook a delicious meal of Okra Stew for the family dinner. Readers join the two characters as they spend the day gathering the ingredients needed for the stew with a visit to their garden and the beach. Once in the kitchen the meal prep begins with much chopping, slicing, and dicing which makes this book such a fun and exciting read aloud!
Sensory Bin Filler: Rice
“…gotta have rice with okra stew!”
This is my favorite page from the book so there was no question that rice would be the filler for my bin! Rice is both a cheap and reusable filler for sensory bins. I left the rice white for this bin, but rice has the added benefit of being dyed different fun colors for other sensory bins! Sand is another filler option to give the bin a beachy feel!
Sensory bin objects: Tiles & Seashells
I created a set of tiles based off of words, illustrations and vocabulary used in the book.
Letter tiles spell out the words: Okra, Stew, Rice, Shrimp, Tomato, Onion, and Cornbread.
Picture tiles include foods, cooking utensils, animals, and nature items illustrated throughout the book.
Word tiles include Gullah Geechee words and phrases used in the book. A guide with definitions of these words is provided in the book after the story. Word tiles also include action words relating to the preparation of the stew such as: Chop Chop, Slice Slice, Dice Dice, etc…
Tiles were laminated for continuous use.
Little seashells were also added to the bin to reflect the characters visit to the beach. Additional ideas for bin objects includes; sunflowers, play ocean/beach animals such as crabs, seagulls, fish, turtles, birds and play foods such as; tomatoes and onions, etc…
The Okra Stew book and sensory bin is a great introduction for children to the Gullah Geechee culture. A recipe for Okra Stew is provided in the book as well as notes from the author for further discussion of the history, heritage and traditions celebrated by Gullah Geechee families and communities.
I hope you enjoy this Okra Stew Sensory Bin and would love to see how you set up your bin! Tag Lulu’s Book Journey on Instagram and/or Facebook and follow along for more fun!
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🌱March 2024 📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!
📌Tuesday March 5: 📖Look How Much I’ve Grown in KINDergarten (Vera Ahiyya & Joey Chou)
📌Tuesday March 12: 📖Bros (Carole Boston Weatherford & Reggie Brown) 📖The Little Regent (Yewande Daniel-Ayoade & Ken Daley) 📖I Am Extraordinary (Stephen Curry & Geneva Bowers) 📖Old Clothes for Dinner?! (Nathalie Alonso & Natalia Rojas Castro) 📖Yaya and the Sea (Karen Good Marable & Tonya Engel) 📖I’ll See You in Ijebu (Bunmi Emenanjo & Diana Ejaita)
📌Friday March 15: 📖A Voice Like Yours (Frank Murphy, April Groman & Kayla Harren)
📌Tuesday March 19: 📖Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale (JaNay Brown-Wood & John Joven)
📌Tuesday March 26: 📖Mama’s Panza (Isabel Quintero & Iliana Galvez) 📖You Are a Unicorn: A Little Book of Afromations (April Showers & Anthony Conley) 📖No More Sleeping In (Anne Wynter & Letícia Moreno) 📖Just Like You (Anne Wynter & Letícia Moreno) 📖For You, I Will (Elle Duncan & Laura Freeman) 📚
Black History
🌱March 2024 📚Black History Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!
📌Tuesday March 5: 📖Miss Edmonia’s Class of Wildfires (Victoria Scott-Miller & Francisco Santoyo) 📖Beyond the Game: Athletes Change the World: Maya Moore (Andrew Maraniss & DeAndra Hodge) 📖Beyond the Game: Athletes Change the World: LeBron James (Andrew Maraniss & DeAndra Hodge)
📌Tuesday March 12: 📖Mama’s Library Summers (Melvina Noel & Daria Peoples) 📖Aunt Sue’s Stories (Langston Hughes & Gary Kelley) 📚
📌Tuesday March 5: 📖Blue Stars: The Vice Principal Problem (Kekla Magoon, Cynthia Leitich Smith & Molly Murakami) 📖One Big Open Sky (Lesa Cline-Ransome) 📖Warrior on the Mound (Sandra W. Headen)
📌Tuesday March 12: 📖ChupaCarter and the Screaming Sombrero (George Lopez, Ryan Calejo & Santy Gutiérrez)
📌Tuesday March 19: 📖Where Sleeping Girls Lie (Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé)
📌Tuesday March 26: 📖Safe Passage (G. Neri & David Brame) 📚
Grown Folks Books
🌱March 2024 📚New Grown Folks Books!
📌Tuesday March 5: 📖This Could Be Us (Kennedy Ryan)
📌Tuesday March 12: 📖Here in the Middle of Nowhere (Anastacia-Reneé) 📖Pride and Joy (Louisa Onomé) 📖Watch Where They Hide (Tamron Hall)
📌Tuesday March 19: 📖James (Percival Everett) 📖Della’s House of Style (Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Felicia Mason & Francis Ray) 📖Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services (Jessica Pryce) 📖This Ain’t No Promised Land (Tina Shelton) 📖The Waves Take You Home (María Alejandra Barrios Vélez) 📚
Prominent Harlem Renaissance figure Langston Hughes was born on this day February 1, 1901 in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes was a groundbreaking poet, playwright, columnist, and social activist.
Let’s Journey Through the newly awarded Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Picture Book, There Was a Party for Langston, to celebrate Langston Hughes’ life, legacy, and influence!
There Was a Party for Langston (2023)
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book, Antheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster•New York
This book was kindly gifted from the publisher as a submission for the 2023 Black Kidlit Award. There Was a Party for Langston received the Best Inspirational Book of 2023!
Purchase this book and other award winners & submissions using this link:
Jason Reynolds is a New York Times Best Selling and award-winning author. A Party for Langston is his debut picture book! And what a debut! Reynolds is the author of several middle grade and young adult book series such as the Track Boys; the Stuntboy graphic novels; Stamped; and Miles Morales. His novels in verse include Long Way Down; Look Both Ways; Brave as You Are and several more.
Books by Jason Reynolds
Illustrators: Jerome Pumphrey & Jarrett Pumphrey
Jerome & Jarrett Pumphrey are not only illustrators! They are also authors, and they are brothers who who have collaborated on several award-winning children’s picture books such as The Old Truck; The Old Boat; Somewhere in the Bayou: and The last Stand. They are the creators of the graphic novel, Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair, featuring two brothers whose adventures and antics are telltale of the Pumphrey brothers childhood! The Pumphrey brothers style of art is uniquely stunning in that they utilize stamps which they hand-craft to create their illustrations! Over 250 stamps were made and used for the beautiful illustrations in, The Old Truck!
Books by Jerome & Jarrett Pumphrey
Author’s Inspiration For There Was a Party for Langston
In the Note From the Author after the story we learn that Jason Reynolds was inspired by a photo he saw of poets Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka dancing together! Reynolds wanted to know the story behind the photo which he shares with us through this fabulous picture book!
The History On the Pages Of This Book:
In addition to Langston Hughes readers will be introduced to other great Black Literary History Makers such as:
Maya Angelou
Amiri Baraka
James Baldwin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ashley Bryan
Octavia Butler
Countee Cullen
W.E.B. Dubois
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Ralph Ellison
Nikki Giovanni
Alex Haley
Zora Neale Hurston
Claude McKay
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Richard Wright
Learning Resource: Name Scramble
Readers can familiarize themselves with all of the writers featured in this book by unscrambling their last names. First names are provided as hints! Resource includes two sheets with ten names per sheet. This free resource is available to Download using this link:
This book is centered around an event that took place in 1991 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York.
The Schomburg Center is named after Arturo Schomburg, an Afro-Latino historian from Puerto Rico. 2024 marks the 150th birthday of Arturo Schomburg.
Founded in 1925, The Schomburg Center is part of the New York City Library system which established the center after purchasing Schomburg’s extensive collection of materials on Black life not only in America but in the worldwide Diaspora.
An expansion of the Schomburg Center was completed in 1991. Both the lobby and auditorium of the center are named in honor of Langston Hughes. A memorial to Langston Hughes adorns the lobby floor. This memorial is a cosmogram titled, “The Rivers” in which excepts from Hughes’ 1920 poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” are inscribed, some of his ashes also lay beneath. Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka danced together upon this lobby floor at the grand opening ceremony of the auditorium.
The Cover: Don’t Judge a Book…But Always Take Look
On the amazing book jacket under the raised letters of the title there is the phrase, “King O’ Letters,” referring to Langston Hughes genius way with letters and words. The illustration on the cover features a huge crown inscribed with words such as MOTHER, HARLEM, FREEDOM, and ME. A young Langston Hughes in a bowtie and suspenders sits upon the crown. Two people below are holding the crown up, and two more people are dancing beside it. Remove the book jacket and what do you see? Small shadows of the people from the jacket dancing with large letters in the background!
The Endpapers Within
The endpapers on the front inside cover feature sixteen books with the names and illustrations of Black writers and poets who have contributed and inspired generations of writers. These are all of the writers listed above and included in the learning resource. The endpapers on the back cover features twelve books with the titles of Langston Hughes’ books upon them. Some of the titles included are; The Dream Keeper; I Wonder as I Wander, Laughing to Keep from Crying, and Shakespeare in Harlem.
Journey Inside the Book
Bundle up, it looks to be a cold night in Harlem! But that’s not stopping the crowd at the Schomburg Center as we can see from the title page! A line of smiling people sporting winter coats over their party clothes are joyfully entering the center!
With a turn of the page we follow the people through the doors of the Schomburg Center and find ourselves standing in the Langston Hughes Lobby! Look on the floor! There’s The Rivers cosmogram! Looks like everyone has shed their coats and are entering the Langston Hughes Auditorium. Oh, wow! The announcement on the wall tells us that we are at the Grand Opening of the auditorium! Langston Hughes’ face adorns the announcement which also lets us know that it is February 1991 (so that’s why everyone was so warmly dressed!) Wave to the people standing above us in the balcony! Hey!!! Each and every person in this joint is dressed to the nine! You are pretty sharp too! Should we follow everyone into the auditorium? Of course!Let’s go!
See that distinguished man sitting at the typewriter? That’s Langston Hughes! Watch as he types and you will see the letters float up through the air, over his head and land on his shadow. The letters are in alphabetical order, except for the “W” which is pearched upon Langston’s head like a crown! This beautiful dance between the words and illustrations goes on throughout the book! This book celebrates the letters which create the words, which create the sentences, which create messages of understanding and change!
This story is a true treat to your senses and emotions! Just listen to the THUMP of the drums, feel the love flowing from MOTHER TO SON, the soul of HARLEM radiating through the windows, birds FLYING, books BURN but the FREEDOM of letters rise above the flames! HahA we laugh in spite of the pain.
And they danced for Langston as the great ancestors Baldwin, Brooks, Du Bois, Ellison, and Hurston looked upon! Maya Angelou who let no CAGE confine her danced with Amiri Baraka who LOVED the word BLACK, and knew the truth and power of the word! BLACK is strong, BLACK is proud, BLACK is king! Watch their feet floating upon the words WONDERFUL, WISDOM, BREATH, JAZZ, DREAM…Oh, they danced and they laughed, they laughed and they danced! It was a jammy JAM, a Party for Langston! And we all were there!
There Was a Party for Langston is a great introduction to Langston Hughes for children. The rhythm and flow of the text and illustrations will hold there attention throughout the story. After reading this book children will know the name Langston Hughes and when they hear his name they will remember a grand party with all of the dancing where the letters spun and turned into meaningful words!
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❤February 2024 📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!
📌Tuesday February 6: 📖The Blue Pickup (Natasha Tripplett & Monica Mikai) 📖The Wizard of Oz: The Official Picture Book (JaNay Brown-Wood & Pablo Pino) 📖Dear Muslim Child (Rahma Rodaah & Aya Ghanameh)
📌Tuesday February 20: 📖Sydney’s Big Speech (Malcolm Newsome & Jade Orlando) 📖Yumbo Gumbo (Keila V. Dawson & Katie Crumpton)
📌Tuesday February 27: 📖Willis Watson Is a Wannabe (Carmen Bogan & Cheryl “Ras” Thuesday) 📚
Black History
❤February 2024 📚New Black History Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!
📌Tuesday February 6: 📖 Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller (Breanna J. McDaniel & April Harrison) 📖Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the EBONY Fashion Fair (Lisa D. Brathwaite & Lynn Gaines) 📖Little People, Big Dreams: Lenny Henry (Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara & Diane Ewen) 📚
📌Tuesday February 6: 📖Keisha Jones Is a Force of Nature (Natalie Denny & Chanté Timothy) 📖You’re Breaking My Heart (Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich) 📖Kwame’s Magic Quest: Rise of the Green Flame (Bernard Mensah & Natasha Nayo)
📌Tuesday February 13: 📖Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert) 📖Black Girl You Are Atlas (Renée Watson & Ekua Holmes)
📌Tuesday February 27: 📖Everything I Learned about Racism I Learned in School (Tiffany Jewell) ***My apologies for incorrectly including this book in our January releases. This is the correct release date!💞 📚
Grown Folks
❤February 2024 📚New Grown Folks Books!📚
📌Tuesday February 6: 📖Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America (Joy-Ann Reid) 📖Redwood Court (DeLana R.A. Dameron) 📖Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation (Marcus Anthony Hunter) 📖A Love Song for Ricky Wilde (Tia Williams)
📌Tuesday February 13: 📖Neighbors and Other Stories (Diane Oliver)
📌Tuesday February 20: 📖Ours (Phillip B. Williams)
📌Tuesday February 27: 📖Brooklyn (Tracy Brown) 📖No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion (Sheila Williams) 📚
💐May 2024 📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!
📌Tuesday May 7: 📖Your Legacy Begins: First Words to Empower (Schele Williams & Tonya Engel) 📖Peaches (Gabriele Davis & Kim Holt) 📖Being Home (Traci Sorell & Michaela Goade) 📖I’m Proud of You (Craig Melvin & Sawyer Cloud) 📖Summer is Here (Renée Watson & Bea Jackson) 📖Sister Friend (Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow & Shahrzad Maydani) 📖It’s Pride, Baby! (Allen R. Wells & Dia Valle) 📖Here Are the Seeds (JaNay Brown-Wood & Olivia Amoah) 📖Let’s Go!: haw êkwa! (Julie Flett) 📚
💐May 2024 📚MORE New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!
📌Tuesday May 7: 📖Back Home: Story Time with My Father (Arlène Elizabeth Casimir & Ken Daley)
📌Tuesday May 14: 📖What the Garden Tells Me (Monica Mikai) 📖Ruby René Had So Much to Say (Ashley Inman & Gladys Jones) 📖Dear You, Dream Big! (Baptiste Paul & Toni D. Chambers)
📌Tuesday May 21: 📖The Plant Rescuer (Matthew Rivera) 📖On the Farm (Nikki Shannon Smith & Amanda Quartey)
📌Tuesday May 28: 📖Nana’s New Soul Food (Will Power & R. Gregory Christie) 📖Never Too Much (Aundrea Tabbs-Smith & Vanessa Kaliwo) 📚
💐May 2024 📚New Black History & Nonfiction Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Reference, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!
📌Tuesday May 7: 📖Black History Heroes: Mae Jemison: Shooting for the Stars: The First Black Woman in Space (Chris Singleton, Ryan G. Van Cleave & Adriana Pérez Perales) 📖A Little Golden Book Biography: Muhammad Ali (Frank Berrios & Ken Daley) 📖A Little Golden Book Biography: Lionel Messi (Roberta Ludlow & Nomar Perez) 📖An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker)
📌Tuesday May 14: 📖They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park (Tonya Duncan Ellis & Jenin Mohammed)
📌Tuesday May 28: 📖Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom (Michael Boulware Moore & Bryan Collier) 📖Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade (Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long & Xia Gordan) 📚
📌Tuesday May 7: 📖The Secret Library (Kekla Magoon) 📖Afro Unicorn: A Magical Parade (April Showers & Anthony Conley) 📖Blood at the Root (LaDarrion Wiliams)
📌Tuesday May 14: 📖With Just One Wing (Brenda Woods) 📖Onyeka and the Heroes of the Dawn (Tolá Okogwu) 📖Olivia Blackwood Takes Action! (Sonja Thomas) 📚
💐May 2024 📚New Grown Folks Books!
📌Tuesday May 7: 📖Coming Home (Brittany Griner) 📖A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring it All Out (Shenequa Golding) 📖Skin & Bones (Renée Watson)
📌Tuesday May 14: 📖The Lagos Wife (Vanessa Walters)
📌Tuesday May 21: 📖Control (Omar Tyree)
📌Tuesday May 28: 📖Summer on Highland Beach (Sunny Hostin) 📚
🦋April 2024 📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!
📌Tuesday April 2: 📖All I Need to Be (Rachel Ricketts & Tiffany Rose) 📖Marley’s Pride (Joëlle Retener & DeAnn Wiley) 📖From My Head to My Toes (Aly Raisman & Bea Jackson) 📖I Am More Than (LeBron James & Niña Mata) 📖More Than You Imagine (Thelia Hutchinson & Ariana Predoi)
📌Tuesday April 9: 📖Tasha’s Voice (Carmen Bogan, Floyd Cooper & Daria Peoples) 📖¡Fiesta!: A Festival of Colors (Duncan Tonatiuh) 📖Lola Meets the Bees (Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw) 📖Are You Listening? (Susan Verde & Juliana Perdomo)
📌Tuesday April 16: 📖The Heart Never Forgets (Ana Ot & Hayden Goodman) 📖Churro Stand (Karina N. González & Krystal Quiles) 📖Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude of Neurodiversity (Samara Cole Doyon & Kaylani Juanita) 📖Life’s Little Lessons*: Bye-Bye Blanket (Bernette Ford & Sam Williams) *Five additional titles in this Board Book series also releasing on this date: •Bye-Bye Bottle •Bye-Bye Pacifier •Bye-Bye Diaper •No More Biting •No More Hitting
📌Tuesday April 23: 📖How We Play (Dolisha Mitchell) 📖Not My Cat (Stacey Patton & Acamy Schleikorn) 📖Cute Toot (Breanna J. McDaniel & Olivia de Castro) 📖I’m Not Small: Board Book Edition (Nina Crews)
📌Tuesday April 30: 📖I Would Love You Still (Adrea Theodore & Ken Wilson-Max) 📚
Black History
🦋April 2024 📚New Black History & Nonfiction Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Reference, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!
📌Tuesday April 2: 📖A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison (Carole Boston Weatherford & Kalif Tahir Thompson) 📖The Juneteenth Cookbook: Recipes and Activities for Kids and Families to Celebrate (Alliah L. Agostini, Chef Taffy Elrod & Sawyer Cloud) 📖Our World: Columbia (Alexandra Alessandri & Manu Montoya) 📖Race to the Frozen North: The Matthew Henson Story (Catherine Johnson) 📖The Life-Changing Magic of Chess: A Beginner’s Guide with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley (Maurice Ashley & Denis Angelov) 📖Little People, Big Dreams: Beyoncé (Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara & Jade Orlando)
📌Thursday April 4: 📖Dancing Through Space: How Dr. Mae Jemison Soared to New Heights (Lydia Lukidis & Sawyer Cloud)
📌Tuesday April 9: 📖Juneteenth Is (Natasha Triplett & Daniel J. O’Brien)
📌Tuesday April 23: 📖Our God Is Marching On (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) 📖I Heard: An American Journey (Jaha Nailah Avery & Steffi Walthall)
📌Tuesday April 30: 📖Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show (Carole Boston Weatherford & Eric Velasquez) 📖Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys (Roberto Peñas & Carl Angel) 📚
📌Tuesday April 2: 📖Ultraviolet (Aida Salazar) 📖Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World (Justin A. Reynolds) 📖Rockin’ Robots!: Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files (Andrea Beaty & Theanne Griffith)
📌Tuesday April 23: 📖Mid-Air (Alicia D. Williams & Danica Novgorodoff) 📖Kicked Out (A.M. Dassu) 📖A Little Bit Super: With Small Power Come Big Problems (Gary D. Schmidt & More)
📌Tuesday April 30: 📖Rica Baptista: A Week of Shenanigans (Janet Costa Bates & Gladys Jose) 📖Reina Ramos: Tour Guide (Emma Otheguy & Andrés Landazábal) 📚
Grown Folks Books
🦋April 2024 📚New Grown Folks Books!
📌Tuesday April 2: 📖All We Were Promised (Ashton Lattimore)
📌Tuesday April 9: 📖The House of Broken Bricks (Fiona Williams)
📌Tuesday April 16: 📖Woke Up No Light: Poems (Leila Mottley)
📌Tuesday April 23: 📖Out of Office (A.H. Cunningham) 📚
This March we are celebrating and reading about: Women’s History, all things Spring including Flowers & Butterflies, Pi (not Pie), Names, Holi, Ramadan, Easter, Black History and so much more!
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