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 (6/7/2021-6/13/2021).

Annamarie’s Reading

Board Books, Picture Books, and Readers:

Applesauce is Fun to Wear by Nancy Raines Day
Baby’s First Farm by Danielle McLean (board book)
Baby Loves Yoga: An ABC of First Poses by Jennifer Eckford (board book)
Bear Island by Matthew Cordell
Chickens on the Loose by Jane Kurtz
Cupcake Fix (Layla and the Bots) by Vicky Fang (reader)
The Giant Ice Cream Mess by Tina Kugler (reader)
How to Apologize by David LaRochelle
I’ll Meet You in Your Dreams by Jessica Young

Nick and Nack Float a Boat by Brandon Budzi (reader)
Oh Look, a Cake! by Jonathan McKee
Pride Puppy! by Robin Stevenson
The Sea Knows by Alice B. McGinty
Small Room, Big Dreams: The Journey of Julian and Joaquin Castro by Monica Brown (biography)
This Is a Dog Book! by Judith Henderson
This Very Tree: A Story of Resilience, Community, and 9/11 by Sean Rubin (nonficiton)
We All Play by Julie Flett
What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke

Everything Else:

Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera
Fox & Rabbit Celebrate by Beth Ferry (graphic novel)
Pizazz by Sophy Henn
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Sonja Cherry-Paul

Thoughts & Updates: I’m finally into the new job which is very exciting! I’m still wrapping my head around all of the nuances of my new library. It is always so interesting to see how different each library is — even when moving between two systems that serve similar suburbs of the same city.

Reading has held steady, with many picture books and a few chapter books. I absolutely loved Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls, and Stamped (For Kids), the newest adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning, is well done for the intended age range, even if I am still partial to Jason Reynold’s version.

Reading by the Numbers:

22 Books Read This Week
- 11 Books with Main Characters of Marginalized Backgrounds (50%)
- 8 Books by Authors of Marginalized Backgrounds (36%)
- 6 Books by Own Voices Authors (27%)

Favorites of the Week: