Kellee Moye, of Unleashing Readers, and Jen Vincent, of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give It's Monday! What Are You Reading? a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children's literature - picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels, anything in the world of kidlit - join us! We love this meme and think you will, too. We encourage everyone who participates to visit at least three of the other kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.
If you want to know more about what I've been reading, visit my Goodreads shelf.
Last Week on the Blogs:
Words from my spine poems
Last Week in Books:
Highlights: I really enjoyed Sweet Words so Brave. It's a history of African American literature. I appreciated learning about many excellent authors. A Dime a Dozen was a collection of poems by Nikki Grimes and was a sort of memoir. It was very good. I also had a nice time read Juan Felipe Herrera's verse novel Cinnamon Girl.
I'm still reading Miles Morales (A Spider-Man Novel) by Jason Reynolds from NetGalley and am enjoying it so far. I'm still reading Emotional Agility - an adult nonfiction book, but haven't made much progress. I started Goodbye Days too. I'm listening to Afterworlds and am about half-way through. I'm re-reading some books for a committee I'm on so I'm not sure how many new books I'll get to this week.
Reading Challenge Updates:
Goodreads Challenge 2017 - 197/550
Diversity on the Shelf 2017 - 102/225 (goal = 50% of my books by and/or about POC)
LGBTQIA Challenge - 9/30
#OwnVoices Challenge - 58/125
#MustReadin2017 - 14/24
Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge - 44/100
It sounds like you had a lovely reading week Crystal. Thanks for your responses to my tweet asking about reviewing books.
ReplyDeleteSpine poetry sounds like fun. I'll have to give it a try!
ReplyDeleteI love the representation of your spine poetry. I will be interested to see your reaction to Afterworlds.
ReplyDeleteI just finished The Hate U Give. I thought it was excellent--better and better as it unfolded.
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing Feminist Baby show up on a few lists lately. I'll have to check that out!
ReplyDeleteSweet Words, so Brave sounds like a powerful read, looking forward to getting my hands on a copy.
ReplyDeleteI loved Piecing Me Together! Several of my students were rooting for The Cat from Hunger Mt for the Caldecott.
ReplyDeleteI am super liking the look of It's raining laughter! I've hardly celebrated poetry month last April, and now it's May! Life moves so quickly.
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