As I was going through my old books from when I was a child, I came across Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe. This book has a special place in my heart. It was one of the few books that I saw growing up with a Black girl on the cover. I […]
Today’s Throwback Thursday book feature is inspired by my current read: Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. The main character is a Black mermaid, a mama wata. When I first saw the cover I immediately thought about the story, “Mary Belle and the Mermaid” in Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True […]
Today’s Throwback Thursday is for the Spooky Season lovers. So if you grew up as a pre-teen/teen in the nineties then I know there is a good chance that you have heard of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alan Schwartz. I still have a hesitancy to look at the cover of that […]
I was humming a song the other day and realized it was Pierre sung by Carole King. Pierre by Maurice Sendak as well as Chicken Soup with Rice are childhood favorites of mine. What about Max in Where the Wild Things Are you ask? I liked it, but that was my brother’s book so I […]
My local library has a podcast, called These Books Made Me: Exploring The Literary Heroines Who Shaped Us and they have done some episodes on the early set of characters from the American Girls Pastimes series. (You should check it out!) When fellow bookstagrammer, @hawa.reads mentioned the podcast recently it triggered me to think of […]
Sometimes when you look at books that you read when you were younger, you remember the experience more than the plot. That’s how I feel about The Twits by Roald Dahl. It was actually one of my favorites from elementary school. But it was my favorite because it cracked me up. I mean the kind […]
By the time I hit fifth grade the Wayside School Series were among my favorite books to read. They were definitely a solid score from the Scholastic catalog. This was wackiest, weirdest school ever! I sat at my desk during silent reading alternating between raising my eyebrows and chuckling as quietly as I could manage. […]