It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

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!