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Ahmad Qadri, Potter

  Please meet Ahmad Qadri. His story is the first I want to offer you about traditional artists in New Hampshire. I did a series of fieldwork reports for the New Hampshire State Council on the arts about traditional artists

#Reading Africa

For #ReadingAfrica, I compile here some of my favorite books and links to sites that feature books written today by African writers and make them available in the U.S. BookWitty A Reading List from BookWitty which includes Chicken in the

The Winners, Gilmanton Year Round Library and Somersworth Middle School

How beautiful to read messages from many New Hampshire librarians who want to diversify their collections. A librarian in Keene wrote, “The more our kids can see themselves in the books they read, the better!”  And another librarian in small

Welcoming America Children’s Book Giveaway

Welcoming America Children’s Book Giveaway! I have a small collection of books – mostly middle grade books – about new Americans. These are stunning books I’ve reviewed for on my blog on global lit for teens and YAs, Rabbit in

For Laurie, a Welcoming New Hampshire Story

“Laurie was their first English teacher. She brought sheets of white paper and markers to her students who spoke little English but told stories with their art.” In 2010, Laurie Lalish of Lutheran Social Services, now Ascentria, conducted a visual

Meet Your Immigrant-American Neighbor Giveaway

My Giveaways Continue on this late August day.  My theme is books about our immigrant neighbors. Some of the books tell stories set in the homelands of families now in the U.S.  It’s meeting immigrant families here in my state

August Giveaway – Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote

Congratulations to the winner of my first August Giveaway – Amazing Books to Help Students Meet New Americans. One Good Thing about America by Ruth Freeman goes to a teacher in New Hampshire.  This week, it’s a story of migrations

August Get-Ready-for-School Giveaway – Books to help kids and teens meet new Americans

  Warren St. John, writer of Outcasts United about a  soccer team made up of refugee kids in Clarkson, Georgia said “children live in this fantastic mosaic of society.”  His hope for the book was that people “might risk the

Students Design their Own Joseph and Whoosh

Joseph and Whoosh, of Joseph’s Big Ride, and I were invited to Lawrence Public Library’s wild and wonderful summer story series.  Kids from all over the city and their teachers trek to the library!  Thanks Jazmine and Niko Welch for

Reading Ruby with New Americans

One of the jobs I cherish doing is bringing NH Humanities’ book discussion programs to English Language Learners.I met with Christine Powers’ class of adult learners in Salem, New Hampshire this spring. They were all new Americans and also mothers.