❤February 2024 📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!
đź“ŚTuesday February 6: đź“–The Blue Pickup (Natasha Tripplett & Monica Mikai) đź“–The Wizard of Oz: The Official Picture Book (JaNay Brown-Wood & Pablo Pino) đź“–Dear Muslim Child (Rahma Rodaah & Aya Ghanameh)
đź“ŚTuesday February 20: đź“–Sydney’s Big Speech (Malcolm Newsome & Jade Orlando) đź“–Yumbo Gumbo (Keila V. Dawson & Katie Crumpton)
đź“ŚTuesday February 27: đź“–Willis Watson Is a Wannabe (Carmen Bogan & Cheryl “Ras” Thuesday) đź“š
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) 📚
đź“ŚTuesday February 27: đź“–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!đź’ž đź“š
Grown Folks
❤February 2024 📚New Grown Folks Books!📚
đź“ŚTuesday February 6: đź“–Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America (Joy-Ann Reid) đź“–Redwood Court (DeLana R.A. Dameron) đź“–Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation (Marcus Anthony Hunter) đź“–A Love Song for Ricky Wilde (Tia Williams)
đź“ŚTuesday February 13: đź“–Neighbors and Other Stories (Diane Oliver)
đź“ŚTuesday February 20: đź“–Ours (Phillip B. Williams)
đź“ŚTuesday February 27: đź“–Brooklyn (Tracy Brown) đź“–No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion (Sheila Williams) đź“š
Fun ideas to create book themed gifts perfect for birthdays, holidays, or any celebration! Pair a book or books with games, puzzles, learning toys, crafts, etc…
đź“–When I Wrap My Hair (Shauntay Grant & Jenin Mohammad 1/2/24) đź“–My Block Looks Like (Janelle Harper & Frank Morrison 1/2/24) đź“–Like So (Ruth Forman & Raissa Figueroa 1/2/24) đź“–The Spark in You (Andrea Pippins 1/9/24) đź“–Homegrown (DeAnn Wiley 1/9/24) đź“–Keep Dancing Through: A Boss Family Groove (Alison Holker Boss, Stephen “tWitch” Boss & Shellene Wright 1/16/24) đź“–Elijah’s Easter Suit (Bretom Jackson & Emmanuel Boateng 1/23/24) đź“–Kiki Finds Her Voice (Kierra Sheard-Kelly & Paul Kellam 1/23/24) đź“–The Last Stand (Antwan Eady, Jarrett Pumphrey & Jerome Pumphrey 1/30/24)
đź“–The Great Explorer of Mammoth Cave: A Graphic Novel Biography of Stephen Bishop (Shawn Pryor & Alessandro Valdright 1/1/24) đź“–Who Got Game?: Basketball: Amazing But True Stories! (Derrick Barnes & Jez Tuya 1/2/24) đź“–Coretta: The Autobiography of Coretta Scott King (Coretta Scott King & Ekua Holmes 1/2/24) đź“–We Dream a World: Carrying the Light from My Grandparents Martin Luther King, Jr. & Coretta Scott King (Yolanda Renee King & Nicole Tadgell 1/2/24) đź“–Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote (Dinah Johnson & Jerry Jordan 1/2/24) đź“–Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts: Letters to Civil Rights Activist Ruby Bridges (Ruby Bridges & John Jay Cabuay 1/2/24) đź“–Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis (Lesa Cline-Ransome & James E. Ransome 1/9/24) đź“–Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava 1/16/24)
Chapter Books Releasing Jan. 2024
đź“–Imani and the Great Hair Experiment (Cicely Lewis & Anastasia Magloire Williams 1/1/24) 👉🏾Additional titles also releasing in the Hair Magic Series include: •Imani’s Recipe for Teamwork •Imani Makes a Difference •Imani Picks Up the Pieces •Imani Finds the Right Notes •Imani the Superhero đź“–Nina Under Arrest: A Birmingham Children’s Crusade Survival Story (Anitra Butler-Ngugi 1/1/24 ) đź“–The Reckoning (Wade Hudson 1/2/24) đź“–Dragons in a Bag Book 5: The War of the Witches (Zetta Elliott 1/9/24) đź“–Shark Teeth (Sherri Winston 1/16/24) đź“–Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers (Zora Neale Hurston, Ibram X. Kendi & Jazzmen Lee-Johnson 1/23/24) đź“–Between Two Brothers (Crystal Allen 1/24/24) đź“–The Anti-Racist Vocab Guide: An Illustrated Introduction to Dismantling Anti-Blackness (Maya Ealey 1/30/24) đź“–Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School (Tiffany Jewell 1/30/24)
Grown Folks Books Releasing Jan. 2024
đź“–Roux (Tamika Christy 1/9/24) đź“–And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Careof Self (Common 1/23/24) đź“–This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Edited by Kwame Alexander 1/30/24) đź“–The Mayor of Maxwell Street (Avery Cunningham 1/30/24) đź“–HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience (Ayesha Rascoe 1/30/24) đź“–I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (Tabitha Brown 1/30/24) đź“–The American Queen (Vanessa Miller 1/30/24) đź“–Come & Get It (Kiley Reid 1/30/24) đź“–The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel (ReShonda Tate 1/30/24)
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