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What’s Sally Reading?
Amelia Bloomer Project Announces the 2015 Booklist
As part of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, the Amelia Bloomer Project focuses on feminist books for readers age 0-18. Each year the committee creates a booklist to recommend to librarians and others. The 2015 list also includes a Top Ten list selected by the committee. I hope you all have a few of these titles in your collections, and maybe you will find another one or two to add.
Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton Elya is a good picture book choice for the upcoming summer reading program. When the wolf tricks Roja into picking some flowers for her grandma, he sneaks off with her red cape to visit grandma. Can Grandma and Roja handle a wolf and save the day? The sprinkling of Spanish words are understood within the context of the story, and the author has included a pronunciation guide and translation of each in the front of the book. Watch the pages for the Three Blind Mice and a couple of tiny troublemakers:trickster elves. A good read-aloud for Story time, and a 2015 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book.
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free, via the Regional Library Systems, to Nebraska school and public libraries.)