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Rosemary, the vibrant mind behind Mom Read It, thrives as a children's and YA librarian within a bustling public library system. With a zest for storytelling, maker spaces, and coding, she champions advocacy initiatives. An avid comic book aficionado, she juggles the roles of bibliomaniac, knitter, and mother to her beloved "dragons" (aka boys). Her blog brims with enthusiasm for..
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I’m A Mess, by Einat Tsarfati and Translated by Annette Appel, (July 2024, Mad Cave Studios), $14.99, ISBN: 9781545800867 Ages 13+ Funny and painfully honest, I’m a Mess is an honest-to-goodness meditation on living with messiness. With sections on types of messiness, how to organize without really organizing, and that “golden group of gods”: the ..read more
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2w ago
Exclusion and the Chinese American Story (Race to the Truth), by Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn, (March 2024, Crown Books for Young Readers), $8.99, ISBN: 9780593567630 Ages 10-14 The Race to the Truth series is a middle grade/middle school series that takes an unvarnished look at marginalized communities in American history. Exclusion and the Chinese American Story traces ..read more
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2w ago
A Magical Girl Retires, by Park Seolyeon/Translated by Anton Hur, (Apr 2024, HarperVia), $21.99, ISBN: 9780063373266 Ages 13+ Okay, hear me out: yes, the protagonist in this story, translated from the original Korean, is 29 years old, but this is such a fun story that teens who love manga, particularly the magical girl genre, will ..read more
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2w ago
What’s AANHPI? It’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and May’s dedicated to recognizing the contributions and influence of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders have and continue to have on American culture and history. Here are some books to think about when putting together collections and displays. If Lin Can ..read more
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Look Up! Fontaine the Pigeon Starts a Revolution, by Britt Gondolfi/Illustrated by Amanda Romanick, (Apr. 2024, Paw Prints), $18.99, ISBN: 9781223188089 Ages 5-7 This hilarious rhyming story serves as a cautionary tale to look up from our screens once in a while. Set in New Orleans, a group of pigeons watches as the people below them ..read more
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1M ago
The Wonderful World of Ants, by Philip Bunting, (March 2024, Crown Books for Young Readers), $17.99, ISBN: 9780593567784 Ages 4-8 There are 10 quadrillion ants in the world! That’s a lot of ants. The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants is all about how these tiny little creatures make life better for us humans, and what we ..read more
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King Arthur & The Knights of Justice, by Joe Corallo/Illustrated by Gina Cardinali, (Apr. 2024, Mad Cave Studios), $14.99, ISBN: 9781960578600 Ages 12-16 King Arthur & The Knights of Justice was a ’90s cartoon that lasted for two seasons. Merlin, trapped by the evil enchantress Morgana, managed to recruit a new knights of the round ..read more
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I fell a bit behind from reviews between life and the fact that I have trouble turning anything down (it’s really hard to Read All the Books! no matter how much one wants to), but I am giving it a college try. So here’s a catchup of some graphic novels that are already out, but ..read more
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Saving Delicia: A Story About Small Seeds and Big Dreams, by Laura Gehl/Illustrated by Patricia Metola, (Apr. 2024, Flyaway Books), $19.00, ISBN: 9781947888449 Ages 3-7 Kari and her dog Cookie sit in the shade of a delicia tree, listening to Old Otis tell stories about his youth, when delicia trees grew in abundance and he ..read more
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My Mother’s Tongues: A Weaving of Languages by Uma Menon/Illustrated by Rahele Jomepour Bell, (Feb. 2024, Candlewick Press), $18.99, ISBN: 9781536222517 Ages 4-8 A young girl named Sumi loves that her mother speaks two languages, Malayalam and English. She has “two tongues” and can easily move between each language depending on who she’s speaking with ..read more