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Dinner Table Talks: Missing Daddy and Dad Bakes

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Black & White photo of Tree Canopy looking up from Roots

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#BrainBreaks: Photography Scavenger Hunt

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

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#BrainBreaks: Story Starters

Picture of Gurdeep Pandher | Photo of a man wearing a turban leaping into the air

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#BrainBreaks: Bhangra Dancing

Black & White photo of a young Black girl with braids. Her eyes are closed and her face is uplifted in a slight smile.

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#BrainBreaks: Self-Portraits

Cover of No More Poems! Featuring Dad with blue hair singing into a spatula and two children on either side of wincing

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#BrainBreaks: Get Moving with Kid and WordPlay

Image of a little Black girl with colorful beads in her hair with arms upstretched out of a sea of colorful dots

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#BrainBreaks: Create with Your Favorite Children's Book Illustrators

Cover of Where Are You From? features a grandfather walking on a dirt path with his granddaughter on his shoulders. Fields of long, brown grass are on either side and birds fly into the sky. The granddaughter looks happy and has her arms outstretched and her grandfather smiles.

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Dinner Table Talks: Where Are You From?

Recognize! Book Cover

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Dinner Table Talks: Recognize! An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life

Going Down Home with Daddy book cover by Kelly Starling Lyons

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Dinner Table Talks: Going Down Home with Daddy

Orange city background with three young Black girls walking together behind each other; Award medals are placed in all four corners of the book cover

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Dinner Table Talks: One Crazy Summer

Cover of Stamped Remix by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi

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Dinner Table Talks: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Image of a young basketball player in silhouette balancing a basketball on his finger. The Crossover is written on his body and he stands against a white background.

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Dinner Table Talks: The Crossover

Heather M.'s Picks

Black is a Rainbow Color

If You Come to Earth /.

South Carolina Picture Book Award Nominees 2022-2023

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Isaiah Dunn is My Hero

Unspeakable

South Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees 2022-2023

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

The One Day House

No Voice Too Small

Read All About It: Connecting with Our Community

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

No More Plastic

Reuse This Book!

Read All About It: Taking Care of Mother Earth

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Southwest Sunrise

Wonder Walkers

Read All About It: This Land is Our Land

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Soul Food Sunday

Food

Read All About It: Tasty Treats

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld

Ancestor Approved

2021 Holiday Gifts for Upper Elementary

Children's Room Librarian

Eyes That Kiss in the Corners

Soul Food Sunday

2021 Holiday Gifts for Preschoolers

Children's Room Librarian

Flamer

The Night Marchers, and Other Oceanian Stories

Celebrate Filipino American History Month

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Blended

Anna Hibiscus

Read All About It: Multiracial Families in Middle Grade Novels

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Antiracist Baby

The Talk

Let's Talk Race (as a Family...)

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Girls Like Us

Accused!

SC Young Adult Book Award Nominees 2021-2022

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian