Sometimes months pass before I discover that One Million Men and Me has made a recommended reading list. So I celebrate every time I see it included. I'm grateful to the librarians and teachers who share my book in this special way.
Here are some lists on which it has appeared:
CCBC Choices 2008
http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/34118
New York Public Library's The Struggle for Civil Rights: Books for Children, K-6
http://acorngraphicsnyc.com/pdf/Booklet.pdf
Baltimore County Public Library's African American Kids' Books
http://www.bcpl.info/centers/library/aabooklist.html
Detroit Public Library's 2009 African American Booklist
http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/downloads/2009_AABL.pdf
Cincinnati Public Schools: 2009-2010 Suggested Books for Free-Time Reading
http://www.cps-k12.org/Parents/RdgList.pdf
Kent District Library - Recommended Reading Lists for Kids: Celebrate Black History Month!
http://www.kdl.org/categories/752
Metropolitan Library System (Oklahoma): Spotlight on . . . Black History Month
http://www.mls.lib.ok.us/mls/mls_spotlighton/africanamerican/black_history_08/PictureBooks/juvenilePictureBooks.pdf
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
June Book Club
I hope you and your children enjoyed the books we read for April. Here are the selections for the June book club. Please share what you think in the comments and post a review on Amazon.com. Thanks for your support:
For lower elementary:
Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Frame, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Black Magic by Dinah Johnson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
For upper elementary:
Ruby & the Booker Boys by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton
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