Two years after Catherine Parks delighted our family with her biography anthologies, we’ve hit a dry spell. It seems that for my upper elementary kids, it’s hard to find biography […]
Books for Black History Month, pt. 2
You can read Part One of this series here: https://storywarren.com/twenty-one-books-for-african-american-history-month/ Stories of those who have suffered injustice and resolved to reverse it inspire awe and admiration. Likewise worthy of respect […]
Andy Johnson and the March for Justice, by Esau McCaulley
Lightsabers. Ninja stars. A sword named “the Destroyer.” —And brothers with so much energy that even front teeth end up on the floor! This is where McCaulley’s picture book starts, […]
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Lo, beyond the River BlappThe Carriage comes, the Carriage blackBy shadowed steed with shadowed tackAnd shadowed driver drivingChild, pray the Maker let you sleepWhen comes the Carriage down your streetLest all your dreams […]
Twenty-One Books for Black History Month
Researching the collection that follows has renewed my awareness of the inescapable, tragic history of slavery in America. Conceiving of our country as it might have been apart from the […]