3 new books for kids that make you proud to be American
With July 4th coming, up, this is a time my family often discusses what it means to be American, how we can make the country better, safer, and more equitable for other Americans, and what we can do to help live up to our nation’s promise of liberty and justice...
Migrant children in crisis: Know these stories. Say their names. Please, don’t turn away.
Friends, I hardly know where to start. But I knew I couldn’t write a single other thing today, until I addressed the crisis at the border and our government’s abject cruelty toward babies and children. (Feel free to live with those words for a moment.)...
What is Juneteenth? 4 great children’s books that explain this important holiday.
If you want to learn more about Juneteenth, or just want to be sure its history and relevance has a place on your bookshelves, we have children’s books about Juneteenth to help. After all, I know a lot of us (embarrassingly) don’t hear much about...
8 lovely children’s books to help teach our kids more about Islam
Like many parents, I’ve been reeling ever the New Zealand mosque shooting last week, which was just followed by yet another horrific racist attack only yesterday: a fire deliberately set at a mosque in Northern California. So as a non-Muslim myself, I’ve...
Rose O’Neill, Kewpie dolls, and women’s suffrage | Women’s History Month stories to share with your kids
Next in our series of untold American Women’s History Month stories our kids will love, I kind of went down an awesome rabbit hole learning about the history of women’s political cartoonists and comic writers and illustrators. That’s when I...
7 new must-read Black History Month book releases for kids and teens. Because Black history is American history.
Whether we’re taking the time to celebrate our own heritage or exploring those different cultures and backgrounds of our friends and neighbors that help make America what it is, books are always a favorite way for me to learn with my kids. And as Black History...
The Bell Rang: An important children’s book about the realities of Black slavery and family separation.
Children’s books that deal with slavery and other dark aspects of America’s history often wrap stories up neatly, with messages of hope and freedom and and liberty and justice for all. But of course, that’s not the way things often go. And in Coretta...
History nerd alert: Famous Family Trees is the book your kids will disappear into
We’ve shared a lot of books lately that are really resonating with our history-geek kids. Books like Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, Little Guides to Great Lives, and HERstory, each tell the stories of important figures, past and present, in a compelling way...
A collection of culturally and historically accurate Thanksgiving coloring pages for children
This year, I’ve been on a mission to track down more culturally and historically accurate Thanksgiving coloring pages for my own kids and for our readers. Because most of us know by now that, however uncomfortable it may be, the story of Thanksgiving that so...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz!
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