When I asked family members and colleagues if they knew about this landmark case no one had any knowledge of it. This leads me to say that while we feel a thrill when our students read lengthier books we should remember another popular idiom that says, there is certainly more than meets the eye in a 32 page picture book.
As an educator I have always liked the saying, "Everything I ever learned I learned in kindergarten." As a school librarian I find that I would change the saying just a bit to read, "Everything I ever learned I learned from a picture book." At this time of year when Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday comes near I select read aloud books that focus on the amazing man himself, the history of civil rights or slavery in America, ones that have strong Black characters in the story or stories about differences amongst people. A new picture book just came out that totally changed my historical timeline about desegregation in the United States. This is a book that I will be sharing with my third grade classes. My own education taught me about the case of Brown v. Board of Education from 1954. But seven years earlier Sylvia Mendez and her brothers were refused admittance into their neighborhood public school. They were told they had to attend the Mexican school instead. Unable to get a satisfactory response from the school board the Mendez family organized a lawsuit which helped to bring an end to segregated schooling in California.
When I asked family members and colleagues if they knew about this landmark case no one had any knowledge of it. This leads me to say that while we feel a thrill when our students read lengthier books we should remember another popular idiom that says, there is certainly more than meets the eye in a 32 page picture book.
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Author For 29 years I had the best job as School Librarian in the Aaron Kushner Library for grades Pre K-3 at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston. Although I am retired, I remain Lori the Librarian. Archives
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