#Booktube – Catching up!

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Hey everyone! So, because we’re terrible at cross-promoting things, we keep forgetting to post our #Booktube episodes here on the blog. As such, here is every episode that we haven’t shared with you. Future episodes will hopefully be posted in a more timely fashion, although we can’t actually guarantee that. Another way to make sure […]

Bedtime Stories: The Origin of Day and Night

Bedtime Stories highlights Children’s Books with a diverse, global perspective.  In very early times, there was no night or day and words spoken by chance could become real. When a hare and a fox meet and express their longing for light and darkness, their words are too powerful to be denied. The Origin of Day […]

Bedtime Stories: The Night Monster

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Bedtime Stories highlights Children’s Books with a diverse, global perspective. Every night, when the owl hoots and the shadows of the trees dance on the walls, the Night Monster creeps into Avi’s room and frightens him. One day, his sister suggests he write a letter to the monster, and Avi’s nights are not the same […]

Bedtime Stories: Alma and How She Got Her Name

Bedtime Stories highlights Children’s Books with a diverse, global perspective. If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books […]

Childhood Review: The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

My mother tells me all the time that if you don’t trouble trouble, then trouble won’t trouble you. When I originally decided to start reviewing books from my childhood, I don’t think I was quite aware of how white my reading was. I mean, I did in an ephemeral sense, in the sense that publishing […]

Bedtime Stories: Sing to the Moon

Bedtime Stories highlights Children’s Books with a diverse, global perspective. For one little Ugandan boy, no wish is too big. First he dreams of reaching the stars and then of riding a supernova straight to Mars! But on a rain day at his grandfather’s house, he is brought down to earth with a bump. Do […]