Searching for a delightful Saturday morning activity for the entire family? Your quest ends here! Join us on Saturday, March 30th at 11:00 am PST, as we welcome author Melvina Noel and illustrator Daria Peoples to celebrate the launch of Mama’s Library Summers, a moving picture book tribute to black mothers, libraries, and the power of reading and seeing oneself in books. Hear about their captivating new picture book, savor some story excerpts, get tips for kids on how to write a picture book biography, giveaway winners announced, and have fun getting creative with an art project. It's an ideal way for the whole family to spend a Saturday morning together!
For the art collage project, gather family photos or select images from magazines or books; all you need are scissors, glue, crayons, and markers.
For the giveaway, attendance is not required to win. If you register but cannot attend, you'll receive a link to access the recording after the event concludes.
Join us for the Mama's Library Summers online event! RSVP with this link. Don't forget to enter our Instagram giveaway @booklove.com for a chance to win a signed copy of the book and more.
*Only registered participants are eligible for prizes.
To enter the giveaway:
Follow one of the accounts on instagram: @booklove.box @dariapeoples @ melvinawrite4u
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Ages 4-7, Grade K-2
About the book:
Every summer, Mama takes her two daughters to the library to pick out books. Not just any books—books about Black people. In the 1960s, such stories were not taught in schools. If there were any books at all, they were often shelved in a separate part of the library. But that didn’t stop two sisters from making a beeline to that very spot and gathering up the library’s limit: ten books each.
Back at home, the three retreat to their favorite reading spots, and the older sister is soon running to freedom alongside Harriet Tubman; reading poetry with Paul Lawrence Dunbar; listening to Martin Luther King say, “I have a dream.” In these books, the older sister sees the struggles, the strength, the love, the hope, and the happiness of people who look like her and never gave up on their dreams. She sees herself.
Praise
"A sumptuous story of summertime Black joy, and a master class in fostering family literacy." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
About booklove
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