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:
- 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)
- My Hair is Magic! by M.L. Marroquin
- Nita’s Day by Kathy MacMillan (board book)
- Nita’s First Signs by Kathy MacMillan (board book)
- Pigeon Math by Asia Citro
- A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
- Sugar in Milk by Thrity Umrigar
- A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi
- When Charley Met Emma by Amy Webb