We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (7/6/2020-7/12/2020).
Annamarie’s Reading
Picture Books:
- Alex’s Good Fortune by Benson Shum
- The Animals Would Not Sleep! by Sara Levine
- Baby Blessings: A Prayer for the Day You Are Born by Deloris Jordan
- The Box Turtle by Vanessa Roeder
- The Case of the Missing Chalk Drawings by Richard Byrne
- Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
- Drop: An Adventure Through the Water Cycle by Emily Kate Moon
- Dudley’s Day at Home by Karen Kaufman Orloff
- Eat Your Rocks, Croc! by Jess Keating (non-fiction)
- Hooray for You by Marianne Richmond
- How to Surprise a Dad by Jean Reagan
- Hurry Up!: A Book About Slowing Down by Kate Dopirak
- I Can Write the World by Joshunda Sanders
- I Just Want To Be Super! by Andrew Katz
- Jamie Is Jamie: A Book About Being Yourself and Playing Your Way by Afsaneh Moradian
- Knot Cannot by Tiffany Stone
- Library Babies by Puck
- Lola Reads to Leo by Anna McQuinn
- My Body Belongs to Me: A Book about Body Safety by Jill Starishevsky
- My Hair Is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
- My Hair is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
- Natsumi’s Song of Summer by Robert Paul Weston
- Now You See Me, Now You Don’t by Patricia Hegarty
- The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Oge Mora (non-fiction)
- Push! Dig! Scoop!: A Construction Counting Rhyme by Rhonda Gowler Greene
- Shapes by Shelley Rotner, Anne Love Woodhull
- Snow Globe Wishes by Erin Dealey
- Space Matters by Jacque Lynn
- Stella Brings the Family by Miriam B. Schiffer
- Tad and Dad by David Ezra Stein
- The Teachers March! by Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace (non-fiction)
- Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
- Violet the Snowgirl by Lisa L. Walsh
- We’re Not Gonna Take It by Dee Snider, Margaret McCartney
- When the Storm Comes by Linda Ashman
- When We Are Kind by Monique Gray Smith
- YOU Are Awesome by Susann Hoffmann
- You Be Mommy by Karla Clark
- You Matter by Christian Robinson
Everything Else:
- Baby: A Soppy Story by Philippa Rice (graphic novel)
- Batman: Overdrive by Shea Fontana (graphic novel)
- Black Panther & The Crew: We Are the Streets by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey (graphic novel)
- The Case of the New Professor by Steve Brezenoff (first chapter)
- Goat in a Boat by Janee Trasler (beginning reader)
- The Magic Day (Sparkleton) by Calliope Glass (first chapter)
- The Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown (graphic novel)
- There’s a Pest in the Garden! by Jan Thomas (beginning reader)
- The Weeping Wombat: The Nocturnals by Tracey Hecht (beginning reader)
Note: I wasn’t feeling the reading this week, so I leaned heavily on picture books.
I’m going to do my best to keep myself to my reading goals created a during my mid-year reading, and here are some stats I’m going to try to keep track of week-to-week:
- 51 Books Read This Week
- 35 Books with Diverse Main Character (69%)
- 14 Books by Diverse Authors (27%)
- 11 Books by Own Voices Authors (22%) (to the best of my knowledge)
This week’s reading highlights:
- Eat Your Rocks, Croc! by Jess Keating (non-fiction)
- Jamie Is Jamie: A Book About Being Yourself and Playing Your Way by Afsaneh Moradian
- My Hair is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
- Natsumi’s Song of Summer by Robert Paul Weston
- When We Are Kind by Monique Gray Smith
Michala’s Reading
- Never Evers by Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison
- This is Not a Werewolf Story by Sandra Evans
- The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
- Ghost Friends Forever vol. 1 by Monica Gallagher illustrated by Kata Kane
- Ghost Friends Forever vol. 2 by Monica Gallagher illustrated by Kata Kane
- Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
- Social Intercourse by Greg Howard
- You Know Me Well by Nina Lacour
- Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
- My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
- Sherlock: A Study in Pink by Jay. created by Steve Thompson, Steven Moffat, and Mark Gatiss
- Sherlock: The Blind Banker by Jay. created by Steve Thompson, Steven Moffat, and Mark Gatiss
- Sherlock: The Great Game by Jay. created by Steve Thompson, Steven Moffat, and Mark Gatiss
Note: I ACTUALLY READ THIS WEEK!