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Be the Change
In a world where suffering and injustice perdure, it's difficult not to feel overborne by a sense of hopelessness. National Make a Difference Day, celebrated this year on October 28, reminds kids that they can spread the milk of human kindness through simple, everyday actions, as do these three picture...
ABCs of Racism Parent/Educator Workshop with Wee The People
Wee The People, a Boston-based arts and social justice project, recently brought their “ABCs of Racism” workshop to the Watertown (MA) Free Public Library. (Hi, children’s librarian Kazia Berkley-Cramer, former Horn book intern!) I’ve been to several Wee The People events, with my kids, but this was something different: a...
Stand Up! with Anastasia Higginbotham at CPL
On Saturday, February 23, author Anastasia Higginbotham was the special guest at the Cambridge Public Library's Stand Up! Storytime for Social Justice event organized by children's librarian and Friend of the Horn Book Hillary Saxton. Higginbotham is the author of the Ordinary Terrible Things picture book series, including Death Is...
Innosanto Nagara, Wee the People, Frugal Bookstore: A Is for Awesome
Photo: Mary Pat WhiteYesterday afternoon, Oakland-based author/illustrator Innosanto Nagara, best known for his board book A Is for Activist, held an awesome after-school event at the Frugal Bookstore (Friends of the Horn Book) in Roxbury, MA. Called "R Is for Rulebreakers! Celebrate Protest with Innosanto Nagara," the event was hosted...
Dear Mrs. Trump
Dear Mrs. Trump, Thank you for the ten Dr. Seuss titles that you sent my school library in recognition of this year’s National Read a Book Day. (Sent second-day air, no less! That must have been expensive.) I’m proud that you recognized my school as something special. It truly is....
"Dear Mrs. Trump" booklist
Mrs. Trump, you sent ten picture books, so I will recommend ten as well — but there are so many more! My wish is that these books will help you see: the beautiful resilience of children who stand up to racism and oppression and for social justice and reform; children...
Civic Engagement Fair at Simmons
Thanks to Simmons for hosting a Civic Engagement Fair today, featuring: the Boston Mayor's Office of Women's Advancement, City Hall to Go Truck, Emerge MA, Fenway Alliance, League of Women Voters MA, MA Commission on the Status of Women, Mayor's Neighborhood Liaison for the Fenway, and the Simmons Office of...
Coretta Scott King booklist and links
Maybe you've heard: Coretta Scott King is in the news. Last night, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (#LetLizSpeak) was repuked (spelling error; we mean rebuked) for reading aloud a letter Mrs. King wrote in 1986 to the U.S. Judiciary Committee opposing Jefferson Beauregard Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship. "Mr. Sessions...
Young people making a difference
Freedman, Russell We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf HitlerGr. 4–6, middle school 104 pp. ClarionFreedman's photohistory is an excellent overview of the White Rose resistance movement, a group of university students who, beginning in June 1942 in Munich, Germany, risked their lives...
Holiday shopping
So you've read Roger's holiday classic, "What Makes a Good Gift Book? Step Aside!" (If you haven't, hop to it!) But what if you live far away from the young gift recipient, and there's not much opportunity to arrange an in-person bookstore outing? The Horn Book's got you covered.Head to...
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