Ladies First!

March is National Women’s History Month
Children’s Picture Books:
 
Boycott Blues: how Rosa Parks inspired a nation
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustrations and rhythmic text recall the December, 1955, bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County
by Janice Harrington
A young farm girl tries to catch her favorite chicken, until she learns something about the [...]

Some old, some new, all too good to be missed

Gideon the Cutpurse
Buckley-Archer, Linda
Peter is so disappointed that his folks won’t be home with him for Christmas that he yells at his dad’s back, “I hate you!” How can you forget to spend Christmas vacation with your only son?
His day care person takes him to spend a week with friends in the country, a chance [...]