Genre: Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Kicking Off Black History Month With The Importance of Literacy

Posted February 1, 2025 by Richetta in Black History Month, Book Reviews, Children's Books

Review: They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illustrated by James E. Ransome What better way for a Black Book Influencer to kick off Black History Month than with a book that shares the history of why reading and literacy is so important? Told from the point of view of a young […]

Review: The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Posted September 28, 2022 by Richetta in Blog Tours, Middle Grades

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander is the kind of historical novel that those of us who are adults now deserved when we were in school. This book embraces and emphasizes the narrative that the history of Black people in the diaspora did not begin in the countries where they were enslaved. Our […]