It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

We participate in the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (12/7/2020-12/13/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

AAAlligator! by Judith Henderson
All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing by Chris Barton (nonfiction)
The All-Together Quilt by Lizzy Rockwell
Ayrton Senna by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (biography)

The Babysitter from Another Planet by Stephen Savage
Beautiful Shades of Brown: Laura Wheeler Waring, Artist by Nancy Churnin (biography)
Brown by Nancy Johnson James
By and By: Charles Albert Tindley the Father of Gospel Music by Carole Boston Weatherford (biography)
Click, Clack, Good Night by Doreen Cronin
Comet the Unstoppable Reindeer by Jim Benton
Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoo’s First Woman Zookeeper by Candace Fleming (biography)

Digging for Words: Jose Alberto Gutierrez and the Library He Built by Angela Burke Kunkel (biography)
Discovering People by Neepin Auger (board book)
Do Not Eat the Game! by Matthew McElligott
Eleanor Makes Her Mark by Barbara Kerley (biography)
The Enormous Turnip by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (reader)
Every Little Letter by Deborah Underwood
Every Night Is Pizza Night by J. Kenji Lopez

The Fighting Infantryman: The Story of Albert D.J. Cashier, Transgender Civil War Soldier by Rob Sanders (biography)
Find Fergus by Mike Blodt
Fox Versus Winter by Corey R. Tabor (reader)
Fred’s Big Feelings: The Life and Legacy of Mister Rogers by Laura Renauld (biography)
Frog Boots by Jill Esbaum
Girl Versus Squirrel by Hayley Barrett
The Girl Who Though in Pictures by Julia Finley (biography)

Have You Thanked a Kidventor Today? by Patrice McLaurin (biography)
Home Base: A Mother-Daughter Story by Nikki Tate
Horse & Buggy Plant a Seed! by Ethan Long (reader)
How to Dress a Dragon by Thelma Lynne Godin
If You Take Away the Otter by Susannah Burhman-Deever (nonfiction)
It’s a Pumpkin! by Wendy McClure
Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin by Tracy Newman (biography)

The Life of a Little Cardboard Box by Igloo Books (board book)
Little Red Rhyming Hood by Sue Fliess
Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt
Monster Trouble! by Lane Fredrickson
My Best Friend by Julie Fogliano
My Hair is Magic! by M.L. Marroquin

A New Green Day by Antoinette Portis
Nita’s Day by Kathy MacMillan (board book)
Nita’s First Signs by Kathy MacMillan (board book)
No Place Like Home by Ronojoy Ghosh
Pigeon Math by Asia Citro
Respect by Otis Redding

Saving the Countryside: The Story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit by Linda Marshall (biography)
The Seekers by Hari Panicker
Sophie Johnson, Unicorn Expert, Is a Detective Genius by Morag Hood
The Spirit of Springer: The Real-Life Rescue of an Orphaned Orca by Amanda Abler (nonfiction)
A Story about Afiya by James Berry
Sugar in Milk by Thrity Umrigar

T-Bone the Drone by Shandra McCloskey
Talking is Not My Thing by Rose Robbins
Tiny Bird: A Hummingbird’s Amazing Journey by Robert Burleigh (nonficiton)
Tomorrow Most Likely by Dave Eggers

A Way with Wild Things by Larissa Theule
We Love You, Mr. Panda by Steve Antony
We Toot: A Feminist Table About Farting by Ashley Wheelock
When Charley Met Emma by Amy Webb
Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn’t Sorry by Fausto Gilberti (biography)
Yoga Animals: Playing Poses for Calming Your Wild Ones by Paige Towler (nonfiction)

Everything Else:

A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi

Rambling Thoughts: This week was mission-oriented: read all the picture books! (And return all the picture books because I had 250 library books in my house and only 60ish directly related to a program.) I gave up on waiting for my library to get copies of some highly recommended 2020 titles, so I’ve started interlibrary loaning books too. I didn’t get to much beyond picture books, but the few longer titles I had time to read were excellent.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Reading by the Numbers:

62 Books Read This Week
- 30 Books with Diverse Main Character (48%)
- 16 Books by Diverse Authors (26%)
- 11 Books by Own Voices Authors (18%) (to the best of my knowledge)

Favorites of the Week: