February Book Journey!: Book Recommendations

February is full of History, Love & Books! Celebrate all month long with these great book recommendations!

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Black History Month

Black History Books: Anthologies & Timelines
Black History Month: Black Joy
Black History Month: Biographies

2/2: Groundhog Day

Books about Groundhog Day

2/3: Take Your Child to the Library Day

Books about the Library, Librarians & Books

2/4: National Thank a Mail Carrier Day

Books about Mail Carriers & Mail Delivery

2/10: Lunar New Year

Books about Lunar New Year

2/11: National Inventors Day

Books about Inventors & Inventions

2/13: National Pancake Day

Books about Pancakes

2/13: Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras

Books about Mardi Gras & Louisiana

2/14: Valentine’s Day

Books about Valentine’s Day & Love
More Books about Valentine’s Day & Love

2/20: National Love Your Pet Day

Books about Pets

2/26: National Tell a Fairy Tale Day

Not Your Average Fairy Tale Books
More Not Your Average Fairy Tale Books

2/28: National Tooth Fairy Day

Books about the Tooth Fairy & Teeth

New Releases: February 2024

Picture Books

❤February 2024
📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!

📌Tuesday 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)

📌Tuesday February 20:
đź“–Sydney’s Big Speech (Malcolm Newsome & Jade Orlando)
đź“–Yumbo Gumbo (Keila V. Dawson & Katie Crumpton)

📌Tuesday February 27:
đź“–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:
đź“– Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller (Breanna J. McDaniel & April Harrison)
đź“–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)
đź“–You’re Breaking My Heart (Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich)
đź“–Kwame’s Magic Quest: Rise of the Green Flame (Bernard Mensah & Natasha Nayo)

📌Tuesday February 13:
đź“–Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert)
📖Black Girl You Are Atlas (Renée Watson & Ekua Holmes)

📌Tuesday 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
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Grown Folks

❤February 2024
📚New Grown Folks Books!📚

📌Tuesday 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)

📌Tuesday February 13:
đź“–Neighbors and Other Stories (Diane Oliver)

📌Tuesday February 20:
đź“–Ours (Phillip B. Williams)

📌Tuesday 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)
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Read for Fun: January Special Days & Celebrations

Download the January Book BINGO Card & Book Checklist to go along with these book suggestions.

Jan. 1: New Year’s Day

Jan. 1: Thank God It’s Monday Day

Jan. 4: National Spaghetti Day

Jan. 5: National Bird Day

Jan. 6: Epiphany/Three Kings Day

Jan. 6: National Bean Day

Jan. 11: National Milk Day

Jan. 14: National Sunday Supper Day

Jan. 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Jan. 15: National Hat Day

Jan. 16: National Appreciate a Dragon Day

Jan. 19: National Popcorn Day

Jan. 20: National Disc Jockey Day

Jan. 20: National Penguin Day

Jan. 21: National Hugging Day

Jan. 23: National Pie Day

Jan. 28: National Kazoo Day

Books About Snow

New Year, New Books!

Picture Books Releasing Jan. 2024

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)

Biographies & Nonfiction Books Releasing Jan. 2024

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)