Picture Books

❤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)
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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)
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Kid’s Chapter Books

❤February 2024
📚New Kidlit Chapter Books & Graphic Novels!

📌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!💞
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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)
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