Happy Saturday! Our Week of Music is continuing to rock, and we’ve boogied through a whole week already! Luckily, we have one more special music-related book to review for tomorrow. But, let’s focus on today! Yesterday we learned a bit about Alastair’s music, so today we’ll learn about him! Hope everyone is having a great…
Tag: Community Involvement
Curious: Think Outside the Pipeline!- by Ants on a Log
For ages: any age Language: English Topics Covered: Environmental Activism, Politics, Music, Health, Activism, Community Organization, Curiosity. Summary: Have you ever felt that you were too small to get something done? That no one will listen to you if you dare to raise your voice? The answers to these questions form the backbone of the “eco-feminist musical” Curious: Think Outside…
Rickshaw Girl
Written by: Mitali Perkins Illustrated by: Jamie Hogan For ages: YA Book, easy read. Language: English, some Bangla. Glossary included in back. Topics Covered: Feminism, Bangladeshi Culture & Traditions, POC-Centric Narratives, Own Voices, Women in Business. Summary: This is a quick read about a girl named Naima, who paints the best alpanas in the village. But, she dreams of more. Naima…
Sound Off Saturday featuring: Parakeet Books!
Happy Saturday! We are super jazzed to feature a great publisher that we’re totally in love with: UK-based Parakeet Books! It’s been a minute since we’ve been able to feature someone for Sound Off Saturday, and these are the perfect humans to start the series back up again with. Hope everyone is having a good…
The Tiny Activist was able to be a guest on “Reading With Your Kids” Podcast!
Happy Friday! We had the amazing opportunity to be guests on an awesome podcast in the children’s literature community-Reading With Your Kids! The podcast puts up 5 episodes a week and interviews everyone from authors & illustrators to extra special guests like LeVar Burton! The two of us were able to discuss a variety of…
Leading the Way: Women in Power [Being released 10/8]
Written by: Senator Janet Howell & Theresa Howell, forward by Hillary Rodham Clinton Illustrated by: Kylie Akia & Alexandra Bye For ages: YA middle & upper grades to read themselves (ages 10 and up); great bedtime story for younger children. Language: English Topics Covered: Trailblazers, Women in Politics, Government, Leadership, Historical Figures, Historical Events, Feminism, Politics. Summary: Something right off the…
grandpa cacao: a tale of chocolate, from farm to family
summary: This story follows tangential plot-lines of a little girl making her favorite chocolate birthday cake recipe for herself, and also learning about her grandfather who is a farmer, owning a cacao farm. The book is set up to show the parallels between the main character and her grandfather, because they have never met. As…
When Grandma Gives You A Lemon Tree
Written by: Jamie L. B. Deenihan Illustrated by: Lorraine Rocha For ages: 3 years and up Language: English Topics Covered: POC-Centric Narratives, Family, Love, Rhyming, Community, Independence, Etiquette. Summary: This book is SO cute! The story begins with our main character making a birthday wish list filled with electronics. What she receives however, is unexpected…a lemon tree! The clever part of…
Sound Off Saturday Featuring: Aviva Brown!
Happy Saturday! We are SO EXCITED to be able to feature this powerhouse, Aviva Brown! Aviva is one of the first people we “met” on Instagram when we started our account, and we’ve been keeping in regular contact ever since. Aviva is knowledgable, funny, and definitely not afraid to laugh at herself as she shares…
Tiger Boy
Written by: Mitali Perkins For ages: YA Book Language: English, some Bangla. Topics Covered: POC-Centric Narratives, Bangladeshi Culture & Traditions, Environmental Activism, Education, Social-Emotional Development. Summary: The span of the plot in this story is only a few days, but the growth of the main character Neel seems much bigger than that. Neel is a gifted student and has been…