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Our children are gorgeously diverse and they love a good read. At the heart of Real Kids/ Good Books are authors and illustrators who are building a new diverse canon, book by dazzling book.
Themes include: children of color, LGBTQ, adoption, special needs, math, science and writing. And of course there is also a mishmash of miscellany and reblogged tidbits that strike my fancy as they float by.
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-Kate
Our children are gorgeously diverse and they love a good read. At the heart of Real Kids/ Good Books are authors and illustrators who are building a new diverse canon, book by dazzling book.
Themes include: children of color, LGBTQ, adoption, special needs, math, science and writing. And of course there is also a mishmash of miscellany and reblogged tidbits that strike my fancy as they float by.
Thanks for stopping by.
-Kate
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances by Lenore Look, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Schwartz and Wade, 2011).
Alvin Ho is one of my favorite guys in the kids lit world. He’s still in second grade. He’s still scared of everything. He still doesn’t say a peep at school. But this time when his gunggung’s best friend Charlie unexpectedly dies, Alvin offers to go to the funeral with his grandpa, before he’s given any thought to the creepy dead body that will be there too.
Luckily in Alvin’s world there are funny mix-ups that lead into more hilarious mix-ups, but at the heart of this book is a young kid trying to understand death in his own bouncy-skittish way.
(Image Source: Random House)
