It is April 22, and here in Saint Paul we are in the middle of a snowstorm – we are expected to get 2-4 inches tonight. This is the third snow storm in a week and even Minnesota has had enough. There is a warning …
Bee-Bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park. Bee-Bim Bop! is so cute. The rhymes are fun and rhytmic, and Ho Baek Lee’s illustrations are sweet and playful. The book tells the story of a child and mother preparing bee-bim bop, or bibim bop a Korean dish …
I need a new title for this series, I HATE writing “Ethnic” everyone is “ethnic.” I don’t want to call in minority, or multi-cultural or … any suggestions? :All this springs from an article I came across and posted about a few days ago that …
Yesterday I mentioned that I would start featuring good children’s literature featuring non-white protagonists. I’ve been reaching out to all of the mom’s and dad’s of pre-schoolers that I know for Early Childhood books, but I thought that I’d start out with some from my …
Education Week’s Early Years Blog reports that preschool teachers cannot name books with non-white protagonists, even as 40% of our students are non-white in the United States: A group of more than 100 current and future educators in Shelby County, Tenn., could identify no tales …