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January 2, 2019January 2, 2019 lockehardy

Top 5 Books We Read in 2018

July 17, 2018August 6, 2018 lockehardy

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Joey loves things that fold. He is enamored by maps and accordions, and sleeps in a foldout bed. When Joey learns about origami from his friend Sarah Takimoto’s mother, he decides he MUST become an origami master. After that, Joey practices on everything that he can get his hands on that will fold, including his sister’s sheet music and the dollar bills in his mother’s wallet. Finally, his mother puts the kibosh on his incessant folding, and Joey feels defeated. To raise his spirits, Joey goes next door to Muy Mexicana for some fajitas (fajitas make us feel better too). Speaking with Mr. Lopez, Joey laments that while he is being patient and practicing everyone else is losing their patience with him. Mr. Lopez tells Joey that many artists are misunderstood, especially when they are learning. While Joey is waiting for his fajitas, he folds the table napkin into a pyramid. Mr. Lopez asks if Joey could make all of the table napkins look fancy and Joey sets to work. After school Joey goes to Muy Mexicana and practices his origami with the table napkins, each day getting more and more intricate. Finally, Joey is able to make a crane out of the napkins! His hard work and patience has paid off, and he is an origami master! #weneeddiversebooks #diversekidlit #poccentricnarratives #diversebooks #origami #childrensbooks #childrensbook #childrenslit #diversebooksforkids #picturebook #picturebooks #education #diversity #inclusion #bookstagram #paperart
Emma Lazarus was born in New York City to a wealthy family and educated by private tutors. She began writing and translating poetry as a teenager and was publishing translations of German poems by the 1860s. Her father privately printed her first work in 1866 and the next year, her first collection, Poems and Translations (1867), appeared from a commercial press. Over the next decade, Lazarus published a second volume of poetry, Admetus and Other Poems (1871); the novel Alide: An Episode in Goethe’s Life (1874); and a play in verse, The Spagnoletto (1876). . 🕯 . Reading George Eliot’s novel Daniel Deronda, with its exploration of Jewish identity, stirred Lazarus to consider her own heritage. In the 1880s, she took up the cause—through both poetry and prose—against the persecution of Jews in Russia, publishing a polemical pamphlet The Century (1882) and Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death and Other Poems (1882), one of the first literary works to explore the struggles of Jewish Americans. . Check out today’s stories for more about Emma and her work! . #emmalazarus #jewishamericanidentity #femalepoetry #femaleauthors #antiracist #immigration #identity #americanidentity #asylum
Happy Saturday! There’s a heat wave hitting us here in New England, so unless we venture to go swimming in the river later (which is also one of our favorite places to watch the sunset with a cold drink! 🍹) we will be inside all day! We are so stoked to feature Tyler this week, who is a dear friend of ours! She does it all, Tyler is a talented writer and activist! . 🔮 . Lee and Tyler experienced the highs and lows of their late teens and early twenties together in the squalid co-cops of the University of Maryland and have been best buds ever since 2013! . Link in bio for the entire interview (which you should definitely read!) 🔥 . #soundoffsaturday #activism #activist #judaism #hinenu #writer #author #weneeddiversebooks #diversebooks #education #diversity #inclusion #disabilityactivism #lgbtq #lgbtqauthors #lgbtqactivist
Today in #readingwhilecommuting Corrie is deep into Gender & Jim Crow! This is a historical account about the lives of women impacted by the Jim Crow laws. It follows the community organizing and activism that allowed the NAACP, Black newspapers, and other various social organizations to flourish under the oppressive regime whose shockwaves are still being felt today. A quote I particularly liked which sums up the book that I’ve read so far is “to Dudley Pettey, race prejudice worked like class prejudice: it created false divisions among worthy human beings”. #blackexcellence #poccentricnarratives #jimcrow #genderandjimcrow #diversebooks #diversereads #weneeddiversebooks #education #diversity #inclusion #commuterlife #commuterreads
This is a simple counting book that also includes traditional Inuksiutiit Inuit tools and vocabulary. On one side of the page is a number with a corresponding item printed the appropriate amount of times, for example 3 Qulliq (stone lamps). On the opposite side of the page the item is simply drawn with Inuksiutiit, Romanized pronunciation of the Inuksiutiit word, and the English translation. The print is large and easy to read, with the illustrations being simple and eye-catching! This is an awesome set of books to begin learning and teaching about culture, indigenous peoples, and language. Link in bio for more information and activities related to the book! #diversebooks #diversebooksforkids #firstnations #indigenousvoices #weneedsiversebooks #multilingual #bilingualbooks #education #diversity #inclusion #languagelearning #boardbooks #diversekidlit #childrensbooks #childrensbook #picturebooks #picturebook
“Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage: a myriad-faceted picture containing the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.” Popular Photography, February 1940. . 📷🎞 . #femalephotographer #berniceabbott #americanphotography #20thcenturyart #lesbian #borntoday #artist #artists #photography

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