A Year of Reading

antiracism it's urgent, not optional sacrifice comfort ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021 Found haiku while listening to Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul speak a...

image via Unsplash We had our virtual Meet the Teacher this past Thursday.  On the one hand, having a new group of children on the screen in...

"To be WOKE is to understand that equality and justice for some is not equality and justice at all. We must stay alert. We must as...

For today's Climate Change Edition of Poetry Friday, I'm reposting a poem I wrote for my 2017 Poetry Month project featuring Malvin...

Franki recently shared her love for Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World by Susan Hood. (Olivia of @Livbits loves it, to...

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz Starscape, 2017 "...for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad per...

Be A King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream and You by Carole Boston Weatherford illustrated by James E. Ransome Bloomsbury, 20...

  What? Doesn't everyone have a rhino in their living room? You mean there are people out there who don't have a rhino w...

National Ambassador For Young People's Literature, Gene Yang, is encouraging ALL readers to try Reading Without Walls : "I want ev...

Stand Up and Sing! Peter Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice by Susanna Reich illustrated by Adam Gustavson Bloomsbury, 2017 ...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. What Scient...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. One of the strong...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. One of the stron...

For the second half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. One of the str...

Troublemaker (Ever so slightly to the tune of " Little Boxes ") When we want What they’ve got And we ask for it In th...

Quiet Sometimes it takes a lot of loud to be noticed. Roar your truth in a pride of lions. Demand change with signs an...

A Lifetime Filled With Change Malvina Reynolds was born at the turn of the 20th century. 1899 turned to 1900. She lived a lifetim...

Working For Change “Anyone who puts his or her talent and effort toward changes for the better has tremendous muscle. (Much mor...

photo via unsplash Education is Not a Business The child lines up his teddy bears to teach them ABCs. He guides them gently in the ...

Here We Go -- Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong of Pomelo Books have knocked another one out of the ballpark. Like their first Poetry Fr...