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A Veterans Day trip to the Peace Memorial in Sherborn, MA. Read about it on my new blog, The Resistance Files, featuring travel, history, and children's books @mirandapaul.bsky.social resistancefiles.com/2025/11/11/v...
Veterans Day at the Peace Memorial Park, Sherborn, Massachusetts
Veterans Day originated as Armistice Day, celebrating the end of World War I, when an armistice was declared that began at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. In 1954, Pres…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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H Is for Harlem by Dinah Johnson was the book that inspired my trip to Harlem, but not the only one I read on the subject. Read about it on my new blog, The Resistance Files @poetnikki.bsky.social @deanrobbins.bsky.social @ibramxk.bsky.social resistancefiles.com/2025/08/03/h...
H is for Harlem
In September of 2022, I reviewed a book called H is for Harlem by Dinah Johnson (Christy Ottaviano books, 2022, 48 pages) and said that I was “ready to hop on the train and take a trip to Harlem.” …
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November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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A garbage truck and a broken cup are central to these two new slice-of-life picture books. @jashar.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/22/s...
Slice of life picture books
Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan (Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 48 pages, ages 3-7). Monday is the best day of the week as far as Mabel is concerned, and the reader slowly gets to fi…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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New picture book biographies about women who made/are making extraordinary contributions in the worlds of art and science. @colleenpaeff.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/19/f...
Fireflies and dragonflies
Firefly Song: Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain Discovery by Colleen Paeff, illustrated by Ji-Hyuk Kim (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 40 pages, grades 1-5). As a child spending summer…
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November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A fun new-ish chapter book series and a graphic novel filled with animals and delicious cooking will keep those elementary readers happy! @mikasong.bsky.social @elyvescent.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/14/t...
Two chapter books for younger elementary kids
Sparrow, Always by Gail Donovan, illustrated by Elysia Case (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 160 pages, grades 2-5). Sparrow’s dealing with a lot in fourth grade: a new baby brother, a best…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Look for these two excellent new children's science books exploring the worlds of carbon and the rain forest! @jenswanbooks.bsky.social @mstewartscience.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/10/n...
New science books
From Bam! to Burp!: A Carbon Atom’s Never-Ending Journey Through Space and Time and You! by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Marta Alvarez Miguens (Charlesbridge, 40 pages, grades 1-4). The st…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The Boston Globe-Horn Book awards ceremony is on Thursday, and it sent me in search of some of the winning books that I haven't read yet! @thehornbook.bsky.social @clarionbooks.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/04/b...
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
An email alerting me to the upcoming Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony coming up this Thursday, November 6, sent me on a search for some of the books that I hadn’t read yet. You can see …
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November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Two new graphic novels with girl power! @aimeelucido.bsky.social @versifybooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/03/g...
Graphic novels with girl power
Words Apart by Aimee Lucido, illustrated by Phillippa and Rachael Corcutt (Versify, 394 pages, grades 4-7). Olive is the younger sister who shares a love of words with her linguist dad. Maddie is t…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Two beautiful new picture books create stories within stories that celebrate Tlingit and Ojibwe cultures. @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social @heathermoconnor.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/25/t...
Two stories within stories that celebrate Indigenous cultures
Moon Song by Michaela Goade (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 40 pages, ages 4-8). In this companion to Berry Song, the Tlingit family that gathered berries in the summer enjoys winter on the…
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October 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Two new picture books with aliens and monsters that will make you laugh! @geckopress.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/22/t...
Two monster books to make you laugh
To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here by Antoinette Portis (Neal Porter Books, 56 pages, ages 4-8). Opening the front cover of the book takes readers immediately to a space portal that is opening up …
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October 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Three new feel-good picture books! @jenniferkmann.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/19/t...
Three feel-good picture books
The House That Floated by Guojing (Random House Studio, 40 pages, ages 4-8). A couple lives in a small house perched on the edge of a cliff. Wordless pages show them enjoying their home and the sea…
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October 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Some new early reader graphic novels: two mysteries and possibly the weirdest book ever! @exocomics.com @andrewsmcmeelkids.bsky.social @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/14/e...
Early reader graphic novels: two mysteries and quite possibly the weirdest book ever!
Cabin Head and Tree Head by Scott Campbell (Tundra Books, 88 pages, grades K-4). Obviously, Cabin Head is a creature with a cabin on his head, complete with a family inside and smoke coming out of …
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October 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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How did we get to this point in history? You'll find some answers in these two new young adult books about how history has been told to get us here. @clintsmithiii.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/09/r...
Rewriting the history books
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War and Rewrote History by Ann Bausum (Roaring Brook Press, 368 pages, grades 9 and up). Beginning with a list of the 20 lies covered in this book from “Sla…
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October 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Two new graphic novels explore a year in the life of a middle schooler @jessixabagley.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/06/a...
A year in the life of a middle schooler
Dear Jackie by Jessixa Bagley, illustrated by Aaron Bagley (Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 288 pages, grades 4-7). Jackie and Milo are best friends, born on the same day and growing up…
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October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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What the past can teach us about climate change and the current political situation @yasimamura.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social @cylev.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/03/l...
Learning from the past
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day, illustrated by Yas Imamura (Random House, 304 pages, grades 5-8). As he did in The Mona Lisa Vani…
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October 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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All kinds of interesting takes on fairy tales @johnpicacio.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @melissadassori.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/01/f...
Fairy tales
The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo, illustrated by John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 60 pages, grades 3-6). There’s a party planned for the evening, but Cala doesn&#8217…
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October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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A picture book mystery that turns out to be a sweet friendship story, and a new chapter book by Katherine Applegate perfect for elementary book clubs. @kaaauthor.bsky.social @alexggriffiths.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/29/a...
Animal friendships
Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel and Friends, 272 pages, grades 3-7). Zephrynia is a cat who likes to “rescue” (some would say steal) items tha…
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October 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Discover Interlink Publishing and their children's and YA books about Palestine. @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social @interlinkbooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/28/i...
Interlink Publishing and books about Palestine
Last weekend, I headed into Northampton, Massachusetts for the Read and Resist Fest at Interlink Publishing. Described as a “social justice and literary festival dedicated to collective liberation,…
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September 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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You'll see double--or quadruple--in these two fun middle grade novels that celebrate Taylor Swift, the Parent Trap, and the power of friendship and family. @jencalonita kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/23/t...
Two (or more) of a kind
The Taylors by Jen Calonita (Scholastic, 224 pages, grades 3-6). Taylor, a.k.a. Teffy, is nervous about starting fifth grade, which is at the middle school. She’s surprised and delighted to discove…
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September 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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What could be more timely than these two inspiring books that tell the stories of women creating and saving art, bringing light to a dark world. @vanlieshoutstudio.bsky.social @erinmcguire.bsky.social @01firstsecond.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/25/c...
Courageous women of World War II
The Spy in the Museum: How Rose Valland Saved Art from the Nazis by Erin McGuire (Beach Lane Books, 40 pages, grades 2-5). Rose Valland loved art. As curator of Paris’s Jeu de Paume Museum, s…
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September 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Christmas fact and Christmas fiction! @adamrex.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/19/c...
Christmas fact and Christmas fiction
The Giving Flower: The Story of the Poinsettia by Alda P. Dobbs, illustrated by Emily Mendoza (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 40 pages, grades K-3, published simultaneously in Spanish as La flor generosa…
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September 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Some creepy fun from two well-known authors. @erinentrada.bsky.social @peterbrownstudio.com kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/15/a...
A ghostly vacation and a creepy operation
The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly (Scholastic Press, 240 pages, grades 4-7). When Lila’s Grandpa Clem dies, leaving an old inn to her father, the whole family has to leave their home in P…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Two series starters for early chapter book readers! @karalareau.bsky.social @toondoon1010.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/13/e...
Early chapter books
Sweet Magic (Witchycakes #1) by Kara LaReau, illustrated by Ariane Moreira (Random House Books for Young Readers, 80 pages, grades 1-4). Young witch Blue is still working on their magical powers, b…
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September 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Two picture books show how family and community can help kids through tough times. @nancyrosep.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/09/s...
Surviving tough times
The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda Books, 32 pages, grades 1-5). When a hailstorm destroys their crops, Junior and his family are fo…
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September 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The miracle of sunflowers as seen through the eyes of a kindergartner and poems that have all kinds of things writing letters to each other! @joycesidman.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/07/s...
Science and nature
Sunflower Seeds by Ellen Heck (Levine Querido, 48 pages, ages 4-8). A boy tells of his adventures growing sunflowers, starting when his kindergarten teacher reads a book about them near the end of …
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September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM