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Pleasant DeSpain (born in 1943) is an international storyteller, world traveler, and author of multicultural story collections and picture books, [1] many of which are used in elementary schools and libraries as multicultural teaching aids.
A Different Pond is a 2017 children's picture book by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui. The book tells the story of a boy and his father going fishing. Phi created the book because of his desire to have books about people like himself to read to his daughter. Bui's detailed illustrations allowed Phi to remove elements of the prose.
It deals with, in roughly sequential order, Native Americans, African Americans pre- and post-slavery era, Irish, Mexicans, Chicanos, Chinese, Japanese, Jews, and ties up the book with a current (for the time the book was written) summary of where minorities are now. Each chapter talks about the history of a different ethnic group, and covers ...
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Booklist, [9] the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature, [10] the Chicago Public Library, [11] Kirkus Reviews named Before She Was Harriet one of the best books of 2017. [12] The following year, Booklist included it on their lists of the year's "Top 10 Diverse Picture Books" and "Top 10 Biographies for Youth". [13]
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The Snowy Day is a 1962 American children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.It features Peter, an African American boy, who explores his neighborhood after the season's first snowfall.
The book was the 2021 Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner in the Books for Younger Children category. [15] It was also a finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize in the Young Readers' Literature category, [16] a #1 New York Times bestseller in the Children's Picture Books list, [17] and received a 2021 Golden Kite Honor in the Picture Book Text ...