Girls Who Build by Katie Hughes This book is cool! It is an introduction to building (tools, safety, supplies), profiles of 45 girls with interviews about why/what they like to build, AND an activity book for building projects from bee houses to candle holders to shelves. –sweet pea Generation Brave by Kate Alexander This collection of activists …
Written by Seattle’s own [retired] city council member and social activist Nick Licata, this book is what so many of us need now more than ever. Think of it as an instruction manual for social change, perfect if your call to arms needs some direction. –AJ, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA Get informed and …
No matter your age, there is value for you in this video of an event hosted by The Brown Bookshelf, a group of authors and illustrators who came together to push awareness of the myriad of African American voices writing for young readers. The Brown Bookshelf is honoured to host the KidLit4BlackLives Rally that took …
This book, by the author who brought us the wildly popular Born to Run, is much more than the cover lets on. If you need a total change of pace, and to be brought fully away from our moment of despair, you need this book, about donkey-racing, animal husbandry, and making the impossible real. Community …
From the Island Books newsletter April 17, 2019 I’ve been writing poetry, or something resembling that, consistently since I was eleven years old. I’ve always liked words, the energy, the power, and the meanings that all vary. Unlike prose writing, poetry offers up a canvas of possibility in its negative space. I found I was …
On August 18, the Hugo Awards were handed out. This is a big deal mostly in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community, but, this year it should be a big deal to everyone who values inclusive writing, especially the voices of women and more particularly women of color. For years, Science Fiction and Fantasy were …
For the cook (for the novice to the accomplished): Dinner: Changing the Game by Melissa Clark. I cannot recommend this book enough! The recipes are simple,delicious and inventive, the photography is fantastic. Every recipe I have made has been a hit. The recipes can be a stand alone meal with perhaps the addition of a …
In 2008, artists Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring made a letterpress broadside featuring a quote by suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Come, come my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving.” This began a years-long project printing broadsides inspired by feminists throughout history, and donating a portion of the …
From author Jane Kirkpatrick’s newsletter July 13, 2016: How are you today? No, how are you really doing? I’m not so well. I break into tears at the oddest moments. My Pollyanna status among my friends is at risk. And yet, “Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will …
Jimmy Carter has written yet another wonderful book. Looking back on his life of 90 years, he shares aspects of his boyhood in Georgia, talks of his war years, and comments on highlights both in politics and his long life. Despite his magnanimous achievements and the honorary award of the Noble Peace Prize, Carter is …
