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365 Black Books: 2025 Miself in Books Sunday
Miself in Books is an inclusive list of books curated by Michigan school librarians. You can access and download the pdf document here:
Book 1 PreK-Grade 1: Oshun and Me: A Story of Love and Braids by Adiba Nelson; illustrated by Alleanna Harris
Book 2 Lower Elementary: At Night, They Danced by Victoria Scott-Miller; illustrated by Toni D. Chambers
Book 3 Black Lives Great Minds of Science by Tonya Bolden; illustrated by David Wilkerson
Book 4 High School: Up in Smoke by Nick Brooks
The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Day 8: Van G. Garrett, author of Kicks
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365 Black Books 2024 BCALA Best of the Best Black Books (BOTB) Saturday
Sharing three more children’s and young adults books from our 2024 BOTB list.
PreK-4: Outspoken by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Grades 5-8: A Place to Shine by Marie Arnold
Grades 9-12: Where Was Goodbye? by Janice Lynn Mather
The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Day 7: Marti Dumas
Day 7 is Marti Dumas, author of Secret Society of Rebel Girls. More information about this author can be found here:
The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later: Day 6 Robert Liu-Trujillo
Robert Liu-Trujillo, author of Fresh Juice, is the Day 6 featured author. More about Robert Liu-Trujillo can be found here.
365 Black Books Bryan Collier Tuesday
Bryan Collier, award winning illustrator celebrated his birthday Jan. 31 He has illustrated several books. I bought his first illustrated book Uptown years ago at an ALA conference. The publisher rep told me he was an up and coming illustrator. She was right. My students loved the book and I have bought many of his books since then!
Information about him can be found at these two sites: Simon and Schuster and Penguin Random House
365 Black Books Julius Lester Monday
Julius Lester, children’s and adult author, was born January 27. He passed away in 2018. More information about Julius Lester can be found here:
365 Black Books: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Thursday
Born January 24, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was was an Afro-Puerto Rican historian who moved to the United States and spent his life collecting materials demonstrating the accomplishments of the African diaspora and the scope of Black history.
His book: The Negro: A Selected Bibliography
Biography 1: Diasporic Blackness The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Vanessa K. Valdes
Biography 2: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Biography 3 (A children’s book): Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
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