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May 20, 2022 KidLitQuoteOfTheDay: "Camila doesn't think of herself as very brave, but she is. She just doesn't know it yet."-- Brave Every Day by @TrudyLudwig @patrice_barton @KnopfBFYR #kidlit #mentalhealthawareness #empathy #parenting #schoolcounselors #sccrowd #escchat
May 19, 2022 KidLitQuoteOfTheDay: "But outside, town was strange. New money to learn. New manners, too--Like napkins on laps. No elbows on tables. English words Shanti didn't know."--Home Is in Between by @MitaliPerkins , illustrated by Lavanya Naidu @fsgbooks #AAPIHeritageMonth
April 30, 2022 KidLitQuoteOfTheDay: “Bear needed a lot of sleep. Two hundred and forty-three and a half days to be precise. Anything less and he turned grizzly.”-- Don't Call Me Fuzzybutt! by @robinnewmanbook , illustrated by @susanbatori @SleepingBearBks #kidlit
April 16, 2022 KidLitQuoteOfTheDay:"Little Wind skipped through Jerusalem’s palm trees. His visit made their green fronds clap. Little Wind took a bow. 'One day we will clap on our own,' Tall Tree said."-Bare Tree and Little Wind @MitaliPerkins @Khoa_Le_T @WaterBrookPress #kidlit
Santa's checking out The Queen and the First Christmas Tree, will it make his list? If you want to check it out, I'll be @dallasarboretum Saturday from 11-3 p.m. outside the Hoffman Family Gift Store, near Gate 1 (Whittier Street entrance) signing books. @lupencita @AlbertWhitman
What could be more perfect under the tree than the true story of how kind Queen Charlotte introduced the 1st Christmas tree to England in 1800? Looking forward to reading & signing THE QUEEN @dallasarboretum 11/20 from 11-3 outside the Hoffman Family Gift Store. @AlbertWhitman
#OnThisDay in 1972 Jackie Robinson, 1st African American to play @mlb, died. This hero never retired from fighting 4 fairness, encouraging & speaking up 4 Charlie Sifford to become 1st African American @PGATOUR CHARLIE TAKES HIS SHOT @JohnJoven_ills @albertwhitman @JackieMuseum
July 19, 2021 KidLitQuoteOfTheDay: “She understood what it meant to be treated as an outsider in one’s own country.”--The Singer and the Scientist by @LisaRoseWrites , illustrated by @isabelmgart @KarBenPub @TMeshuggenahs #kidlit
April 17, 2021 KidLitQuoteOfTheDay: "She made an enormous wish. She wished the lonely dark away."--The Starkeeper by @faithpray7 @randomhousekids @penguinrandom @penguinkids #kidlit
March 10, 2021 KidLitQuoteOfTheDay: "I had a poem in my pocket,/but my pocket got a rip./Rhymes tumbled down my leg and trickled from my hip."--Poem in My Pocket by Chris Tougas, illustrated by @joseebis @KidsCanPress #kidlit